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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Threshold Editions; First Edition edition (March 6, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1451659032
  • ISBN-13: 978-1451659030
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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About the Author

Dr. Michael Widlanski is a specialist in Arab politics and communication whose doctorate dealt with the Palestinian broadcast media. He is a former reporter, correspondent, and editor, respectively, at The New York Times, The Cox Newspapers-Atlanta Constitution, and The Jerusalem Post. He has also served as a special advisor to Israeli delegations to peace talks in 1991-1992 and as Strategic Affairs Advisor to the Ministry of Public Security, editing secret PLO Archives captured in Jerusalem.

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Hopefully this book will be a wakeup call to the American government and the media.
Robert M. Burnat
This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand the news, and I definitely recommend it.
Bruce Lilling
This book is an essential read with a real plan for winning the struggle against Islamic terrorism.
Yetti Sinnreich

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful By Yetti Sinnreich on March 6, 2012
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Dr. Widlanski has done a masterful job of making his case that Islamic terrorism has succeeded against the West due to the knowing and unknowing help it has received by the "Western Elite." By Western Elite he refers to the academics, media, and government officials who have helped the Islamist terrorists' cause. Dr. Widlanski is not afraid to name names. This is a startling expose of complicity! The book provides the proof to back his assertions.
Dr. Widlanski in a refreshing departure from most finger pointers, offers not only accusations, but also the solution on how we can meet the challenge of terrorism head on and win. He skillfully redirects the conversation to challenge us to do just that before it is too late. Dr. Widlanski's wealth of experience and credentials combine with a thoroughly engaging style to provide us with a well-researched, well written book. This book is an essential read with a real plan for winning the struggle against Islamic terrorism.
It is clear that Widlanski is a real scholar of Islam and of counter-terror affairs. He takes a realistic and not an alarmist view of Islam. He does not paint all Muslims and Arabs as terrorists. However, he is much tougher on Westerners; that is the media pundits, professors and intelligence officials who often know little about their suposed fields of expertise. He does not suffer fools easily, especially those who pose as experts. Though Widlanski takes a very critical view of Western elites, he is not a pessimist, but rather an optimist who shows that the West can defeat Arab-Islamic terror. That is the positive message he leaves the reader.
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful By Shalom Freedman HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER on March 9, 2012
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Widlanski makes a strong case here for the idea that Western elites, both in the academic world and in the media have blunted and damaged the war against Terror by refusing to clearly call a spade, a spade. He shows the bias of the NY Times , CNN, National Public Radio and others who have not been direct and clear in defining the Islamist threat to the well- being of Western societies. He says that the threat to the West has been underestimated by the Liberal Left elite of Western societies. As someone whose knowledge of Arabic sources is extensive he brings evidence others have ignored to substantiate his claims.He suggests too that the whole hesitation of the West led to Osama Bin Laden's remaining at large long enough to inspire a whole set of new terror networks. All in all he indicates that the dangers to the West are far greater than our normally stated in the media and in the academic world. He makes a convincing case that far more must and should be done in exposing the real nature of Islamist terror, and its support groups.
This is a first - rate study by one who really knows the territory covered.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful By Robert M. Burnat on March 19, 2012
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Battle For Our Minds rips apart the NY Times,CNN, the CIA and US Presidents and many more supported by indisputable facts so well the footnoted. Hopefully this book will be a wakeup call to the American government and the media. Michael Widlanski's background makes him the perfect person to write such a book, a must read for an caring American.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful By Nadim Nasrallah on May 16, 2012
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In the past, politicians and world leaders were willing to make concessions to terrorists- concessions that came back to haunt us. This book shows that terror is a battle for control of the mind, and this has become the prevailing factor.
Micheal Widlanski indicts Western intellectuals- in academia, the media and government itself- for assisting terrorists knowingly or unknowingly in their attempt to win the battle for controlling our minds. Dr. Widlanski gives a riveting and moving account of the history the role of these intellectuals as part of the greater sage of terror in the past and present, in the Middle East and around the World.
What gives the book special insight is that Widlanski himself clearly comes from the inside, the world of journalists, academics and government security officials.
The writing is clear and accessible to the general audience, while showing deep understanding of Middle Eastern cultures and methods of terror.
The region has long been a battle ground for rival religions, etiologies, nationalism, and dynasties. Organized terror group has become more dangerous than ever before and greater than traditional hostilities of war in the Middle East.

Nadim Nasrallah, St. Louis Missouri
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful By Fred on April 9, 2012
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With political correctness having captured our Main Stream Media, our academic institutions, and our government agencies such as the CIA and the military, our nation is once again leaving itself open and vulnerable to a future devastating attack that could make 9/11 look like a cakewalk. Michael Widlanski in his Battle For Our Minds gives a hard hitting, no punches pulled indictment of the opinion shapers who unwittingly are playing the part of a Fifth Column. He backs up his indictments of the CNN's Peter Arnetts, New York Times' Tom Friedmans, CIA's Michael Scheuers, Columbia University's Edward Saids, and there ilk, who have distorted and misinterpreted events and facts to allow our leaders to make faulty decisions and increase the dangers that are being perpretrated by Radical Islam. He backs his finger pointing with seventy-six pages of notes which allows the reader to do his own checking and drawing his own conclusions. This book is a breath of fresh air that hopefully will ventilate the chambers of our decision makers. It is a must read for everyone who is concerned about the impending tsunami posed by the heirs of the Osama bin Ladens of the world. Widlanski's scholorship in this important work should serve as a text book for every course given on the subject of terrorism in the 21st century, and serve as required reading in the halls of Congress, the Pentagon, the State Dept. and the editorial rooms of our media. With Iran on the cusp of obtaining a WMD, time is short and Widlanski is sounding the warning bell.
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