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Cargando... God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihadpor Charles Allen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. History of the Wahhabi movement and its influence on Al Qaeda and the Taliban ( ) A good read despite the sensationalist and misleading title. Allen attempts to establish a link between current events in Afghanistan and the Middle East and previous episodes across the centuries.It is a relatively easy read and the information is very valuable to anyone interested in this subject which he has clearly researched well. The problem is that he sometimes approaches the topic from a very subjective western point of view. Specifically in the chapters dealing with the muslim rebellions in the Indian subcontinent the tone is patronising and dismissive of any rational arguments for why indigenous populations, regardless of their faith, would choose to rebel against British Imperialism. The same argument can be made today. Unfortunately those who think like Allen will not be the ones making it.
The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one hundred and fifty years. The Wahhabi tribe, extreme Islamist fundamentalists, set out to restore purity to their faith by declaring violent jihad on all who opposed them. Their history has long been forgotten and yet their vicious brand of political ideology lives on. The Wahhabi deeply influenced not only the formation of modern Saudi Arabia, but Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. Their teachings educate orphan boys in Afghanistan and press rifles into their hands, for the sake of jihad. The parallels between this pivotal terrorist network and our post-9/11 political climate are staggering. Charles Allen sheds lights on the historical roots of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous nineteenth-century theology lives on today. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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