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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780998683867 |
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Publisher: | Top Reads Publishing, LLC |
Publication date: | 07/16/2019 |
Pages: | 288 |
Sales rank: | 1,218,437 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of Maps and Figures xii
Preface 1
Introduction 5
1 Jihad and Sharia Law Are Evil… Right?: Islam's Roots in Social Justice 11
No Help for the Helpless - Mohammed's Tragic Childhood 13
Love for the Unloved - Mohammed's Career and Marriage 22
Islam Is Born - Mohammed's Prophetic Calling 29
Mohammed Comes Out - Persecuted by the Quraysh 34
Sharia Law - Justice for the Poor and the Weak 36
Winning in Self-Defense - The Meaning of Jihad 47
2 Meteoric Rise - Demeaning Fall: The Islamic Empire 60
A Perfect Storm - Two Empires Fall 61
Hijacked! The Dynastic Takeover of the Islamic Empire 69
Islam Defines Itself- The Evolution of Sharia Law 71
Islam Shines - The First Renaissance 75
Under the Cruel Hand of Colonialism 82
The Birth of Radical Terrorism The Terrifying Story of Mohammed Al-Wahhab 91
3 Who Is Your Muslim Neighbor?: Present-Day Teaching and Practice of Islam 97
The Four Major Divisions in Islam 99
The Quran 103
The Five Pillars 107
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity 117
Refugees 119
Who Speaks for Islam? Islam's Moderate Mainstream 122
4 Why Do They Hate Us? 134
They Hate Our Freedom? 134
We Hate Their Freedom? The British, The CIA, and Iranian Oil 138
The CIA Goes jihadist in Afghanistan From Single Shot Rifles to Stinger Missiles 148
On Reaping and Sowing and the Creation of Monsters The Taliban 157
Osama Bin Laden Finds Sanctuary 158
Will Godzilla Be Tamed? The U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan 162
Afghanistan - The Long View 163
A War of Aggression - The Invasion of Iraq 165
On the Morality of an Unprovoked Invasion 166
The Real Source of Terrorism - Religion or Politics? 167
Do Muslims Hate Us? 177
The Human Cost 178
Conclusion 181
5 Peace IS Possible 186
The Perception of Hostility 186
Can YOU Respect a Muslim? 197
On an Ethical Foreign Policy 203
Appendix: People and Places of the Muslim World 209
The Middle East 210
Saudi Arabia 211
Yemen 213
The Gulf States 214
Iraq 214
Syria 215
Lebanon 217
Jordan 218
Israel and the Palestinian Territories 219
Persia Speaking Region - Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan 222
The Indian Subcontinent - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh 224
The Turkic Speaking World 226
Southeast Asia and Oceania 229
North Africa 231
Egypt 232
Libya 233
Tunisia 234
Algeria 234
Morocco 235
The Horn of Africa 235
Sub-Saharan Africa 236
Europe 238
Acknowledgments 242
Glossary 243
Works Consulted 254
Index 266
About the Author 275