Muhammad's Monsters: A Comprehensive Guide to Radical Islam for Western Audiences [Paperback]

Dr. David Bukay (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2004 | ISBN-10: 0892215763 | ISBN-13: 978-0892215768

Since 9/11, the rush to learn about Islam has been a common goal for a broad spectrum of Americans - from politicians, to clergy, to soccer moms. Indeed, a lack of knowledge of this religion has publishers scrambling for titles. Mohammed's Monsters represents that rare project - scholarly in tone, yet highly readable - that sets it apart. Essays from leading experts, including David Bukay and Louis Rene Beres, outline the broad dimensions of Islam, while filling in important details. Careful to distinguish between moderate Moslems and radicals who have adopted monstrous methods of dealing with the West, this is a work of utmost importance.

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A must read for anyone interested in the happenings in the Islamic world today. -- Joanna Swift, Production Secretary, May 17, 2004

About the Author

Dr. David Bukay teaches in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. Among his fields of specialization are: bin Laden and the Islamic terrorism; the Arab-Islamic political culture; international terrorism in an era of uncertainty; the Arab-Israeli conflict; inter-Arab relations and the Palestinian question; theoretical issues and political applications in the Middle East.

Product Details

• Paperback: 335 pages
• Publisher: Balfour Books (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892215763
• ISBN-13: 978-0892215768
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,369,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very comprehensive, August 26, 2005

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Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Muhammad's Monsters: A Comprehensive Guide to Radical Islam for Western Audiences (Paperback)

Despite the shocking and controversial title this book is a very intelligent collection of scholarly work on the subject of radical Islam, radical Islamic treatment of minorities in the Middle east, the challenge of Radical Islam in Europe and the question of what to do about it. Patrick Sookhdeo writes a sobering account of genocide in the Sudan. Raphael Israeli covers the `re-islamization' of the Balkans and examines the role of Jihadis and imported Arabs in the Kosovo war and the Bosnian war. K.P.S. Gill and Ajai Shni look at islams role in south east Asia, particularly the Islamist terror in Thailand and Indonesia, and perhaps leading the reader to look deeper at Islamic terror in China and the Phillipines. Joseph Farah and Shaul Shay take a deeper look into the maturization of the new radical Islam in the Afghan war, and Algeria and Lebanon and how they single handedly declared war on the rest of the world. Also noted here is how in the west Islamists and their apologists `play the press'. A third section covers `unconventional weapons' but unfortunately doesn't cover the unconventional means, whereby terrorism has learned to defeat armies since democracies and western nations with western concepts of Human rights cannot confront radical Islam on the battlefield fairly. Islamists use and exploit the west's laws in order to defeat the west and murder `infidels'. David Bukay does an excellent job of summing up the book which he edited. This is a new edition to book examining the role of Islamism and its mutli-faceted approach is helpful because it gives the reader a variety of perspectives. The book is both scholaraly and intelligent and easy to grasp for the general audience. The inflammatory title may distract some from this book, but this is a very down to earth well reasoned address of many islamist issues and islamist causes many of which, like South east asia, go unnoticed.

Seth J. frantzman