The Al Qaeda Reader by Raymond Ibrahim New York: Doubleday, 2007. 352 pp. $15.95, paper. Reviewed by Rob Eshman Jewish Journal The most important magazine article you've never read this year appeared Sep. 21 in The Chronicle Review, a publication of The Chronicle of Higher Education. It's about a librarian. Really. The author, Raymond Ibrahim, describes how it is he … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2007
A Tale of Two Cult Classics
The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf National Review Online A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, In their [al Qaeda's] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession with … [Read more...]
Why They Hate Us
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Zack Beauchamp, The Brown Daily Herald
The Al Qaeda Reader by Raymond Ibrahim New York: Doubleday, 2007. 352 pp. $15.95, paper. Reviewed by Zack Beauchamp The Brown Daily Herald There's a tendency among many who, like me, identify on the left side of the political spectrum to treat terrorism as an issue with one fundamental cause: American foreign policy in the Middle East. According to this view, … [Read more...]
Steven Simon, The Washington Post
The Al Qaeda Reader by Raymond Ibrahim New York: Doubleday, 2007. 352 pp. $15.95, paper. Reviewed by Steven Simon The Washington Post For the strong silent type, Osama bin Laden has actually talked a lot. One expects this from his tediously didactic counselor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, but somehow not from the abstemious Emir himself. Yet in dozens of statements disseminated … [Read more...]