Who Gets to Define the Faith of 1.5 Billion People?
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri? The salafi fundamentalists? Sufi Islam? Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam? Baha’ism? Sunni or Shi’a? The Ayatollahs who wish to bring about the end …
Where Radical Islam Is At Now
Hugh Hewitt interviewed Lawrence Wright yesterday, the author of the excellent book The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, and the author of a brand new long …
Is the Islamic world rejecting al-Qaeda theology, thanks to the War in Iraq?
We’ve often heard critics of the war in Iraq assert that we’ve diverted attention away from the real war on terror, and need to focus attention on al-Qaeda in Afghanistan …
The Death Cult Of al-Qaeda
Thought this passage from Lawrence Wrights book The Looming Tower was interesting enough to reproduce it for you. It’s about the beginning of the Death Cult in Islam in which …
The Reasons Why Al-Qaeda Wages War On Us
Here is another of my forays into Lawrence Wrights excellent book on the history of radical Islam, The Looming Tower. First, for those, specifically on the left, who continually state …
Jihad Against America
In Lawrence Wright’s book The Looming Tower he writes a excellent, historical, account of the formation of al-Qaeda and as I did last week I have selected passages from the …
The Promise Of The Universal Restoration Of True Islam
If you have not yet read The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright you must order a copy asap. It is the definitive book on the birth of al-Qaeda and radical …