Yonah Alexander
Autor de Usama Bin Laden's Al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network
Sobre El Autor
Yonah Alexander is Professor and Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies; Senior Fellow and Director, International Center for Terrorism Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; and Co-Director, Inter-University Center for Legal Studies, International Law Institute.
Obras de Yonah Alexander
The New Iranian Leadership: Ahmadinejad, Terrorism, Nuclear Ambition, and the Middle East (2007) 7 copias
Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare: Threats and Responses (Terrorism Library Series) (2001) 3 copias
Palestinian secular terrorism : profiles of Fatah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the… (2003) 2 copias
Self-determination: National, regional, and global dimensions (Westview special studies in national and international… (1980) 2 copias
Terrorists in Our Midst: Combating Foreign-Affinity Terrorism in America (Praeger Security International) (2010) 1 copia
Evolution of U.S. Counterterrorism Policy [Three Volumes] [3 volumes] (Praeger Security International) (2007) 1 copia
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One instructive incident is the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt on October 6, 1981. "He seemed to be a rational and desirable alternative to the anti-Western proponents of violent recourse in Middle Easter politics" (p. 365). In short, "the events which led to Sadat's assassination and the discussions that followed it are framed by the signal texts and events in early Islamic civilization" (p. 366). One of the discussion points was a fatwa, which based on Islamic reasoning, concluded that Sadat should die. Martin addresses a key issue in that Westeners tend to misunderstand Islamic reasoning. "Too often the texts of the past and other civilizations are appropriated for our own scholarly discourses--out of context, as it were--and thus not understood, especially when they involve conflict and violence" (p. 367).
In conclusion, Islamic religious violence should be understood for what it is: Islamic and violent.… (más)