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...Stern—who served as the inspiration for the character played by Nicole Kidman in the 1997 film The Peacemaker about nuclear-weapons terrorism—has penned a book that attempts to answer fears surrounding the current debate about American national security. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill is based on years of conversations with extremists and her research into international terrorism and reaches out to a popular audience...
Within each chapter of Terror in the Name of God, Stern delves into the fusion of religion and terrorism in the modern world...
...think that people who get involved in religious terror often start out with an interest in violence. But I also think that religion is susceptible to abuse,” she says. “I see religion as having two sides. One, the spiritual side that has to do with a person’s communion with the divine. The second side has to do with collective identity—often a collective identity in opposition to others...
This connection between spiritual extremists and terror is both a sensitive and complicated one to relate to popular audiences...
...articulating plans for winning the peace. But Bush would be mistaken not to respond firmly and definitively to critics who accuse him of fabricating pre-war Iraqi links to al Qaeda. This connection was crucial to his argument that toppling Saddam was part of the larger war on terror...