Unnoticed by most Westerners,” Daniel Pipes wrote in 1995, referring to militant Islam, “war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States.” Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, was one of very few Americans to understand the significance of what to many appeared to be no more than isolated cases of violence. Long before September II, 2001, he publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had gone to war against America. Now Americans are listening to him.

Pipe presents here the results of his research, dividing his work into two key subjects. First, he explains what militant Islam is and stresses the large and crucial difference between Islam, the faith, and militant Islam, the ideology. He demonstrates that it is not a clash of civilizations under way, but a battle for the soul of Islam among Muslims themselves. He shows that militant Islam is not caused mainly by poverty and that its adherents, far from being the dispossessed, tend to include the more talented and Westernized elements. Militant Islam strikingly has much in common with fascism and communism. Pipes also demonstrates how, at variance with our traditional separation of church and state, high officials of both the Democratic and Republican parties have had the effect of endorsing Islam.
ISBN: 0393052044
Publisher: NORTON & COMPANY
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Author: DANIEL PIPES