In light of the recent arrests of terrorists on both sides of the Atlantic, the book reviewed here has assumed an important immediacy.
Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America, footnoted and indexed, is a riveting read. In its “Introduction,” Dr. Phares begins with a short and emotional description of the events of 9/11 and refers to the day as “The Pearl Harbor of Terrorism.” Having analyzed the jihad phenomenon for twenty-five years prior to 9/11, Dr. Walid Phares, an expert on the Middle East and a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies seeks to answer ten questions....
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This is the best book I have read on the subject so far, and when the rest have been by Spencer, Hirsi Ali, Bawer, Sperry, Bostom, Phillips et al that is really saying something. The scariest part is checking out Phares' imaginary alternative scenario in the Future Jihad chapter and realizing how much of it has already happened. This is a Must Read and a Must Get Everyone You Know to Read as well.
Little Red Bird,
After the recent arrests, what Phares has written in this book is of supreme importance.
As jihad is the peak of Islam this is the peak of books about the thinking behind jihad.
I sent copies to both senators and congressmen up here.
Phares is the VDH of muslim jihadist analyses
I was going over chapter 13 again last night and it's hair-raising how much of what he projected is now reality: the cartoon jihad, the second-generation and non-Arab jihadists, nuclear Iran, pressure on US for "direct talks", infiltration of US by Hezbollah, jihad in Sudan, the "political blocking powers" in Western nations, intimidation of and attacks on critics of Islam, Americans turning against their own government but without understanding danger from Islamofascism because the "cultural warning system is taken out", jihad training camps in US and Canada, flexibility of terror methods, and more. It makes some version of that "implosion" scenario frightening plausible. At this point the only question is when will they decide is the best time to strike. And when they do, will people begin to understand what they are and rise up against them or howl that it's all our own fault and demand retreat?
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