Future Jihad Terrorist Strategies against the West

by Phares, Walid

• ISBN13: 9781403975119
• ISBN10: 1403975116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-19
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

This Foreign Affairs bestseller from MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares allows a frightening look into the future of jihad. Phares--who has served as an expert with the Justice Department, briefed the Defense and State Departments, and testified to Congress--shows that ther has been a fundamental misunderstanding about al Qaeda's ultimate goal in the West and what victory means to jihadists. Future Jihad shows how our defenses have been infiltrated; identifies the future generation of home-grown terrorists; and points the way for America to win the ideological war at the heart of jihad.

Author Biography

Walid Phares is a world-renowned terrorism and Middle East expert. He is a senior fellow at The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a visiting fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy. He is an analyst on MSNBC, has testified before the State Department many times, and has led NGO delegations to discuss Middle East terrorism with the UN Security Council. He is also a professor of Middle East studies, ethnic and religious conflict at Florida Atlantic University. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NBC, C-SPAN, al Jazeera, al Hurra, Fox News, and Abu Dhabi TV, among others, and is a frequent contributor to U.S. and international radio programs. He is the author of several books, including The War of Ideas: Jihad against Democracy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of Illustrations	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
The Historical Roots of Jihad	17	(30)
Who Are the Jihadists?	47	(22)
After the Caliphate	69	(8)
The Nazi Alliance	77	(6)
The Communist Dilemma	83	(4)
Israel's Fate	87	(12)
What the Cold War Meant for the Future	99	(14)
The New Jihad	113	(20)
Jihadist Strategies against America	133	(20)
The Inevitability of 9/11	153	(8)
Bin Laden's Strategy against America	161	(10)
The Root Causes of America's Failure	171	(8)
Projecting Future Jihad	179	(16)
The Clash of Strategies: America Versus Jihad	195	(16)
America: Jihad's Second Generation	211	(28)
Mutant Jihad	239	(8)
Guidelines and Prescriptive Policies	247	(6)
Conclusion	253	(6)
Afterword	259	(32)
Notes	291	(15)
Index	306