This book is copyrighted in 2008, before America left Iraq, before the death of Osama bin Laden, before the Afghan war went into full swing, and long before the Boston Bombers. Thus, while this dates the book a little, the analytical approach using the tools of the soft sciences of which Marc Sageman is a practitioner yields interesting, but controversial conclusions, opinions, and recommendations. Those who want quick ready answers to the complex questions of Terrorism will be disappointed.
Marc Sageman states he has prepared detailed analysis of over 500 Muslim Jihadist, and he does state his opinions and conclusions to not apply to other varieties of terrorism. He has categorized these 500 Jihadists into three waves, differing in origin, motivation and style. Sageman finds fine distinctions between various of the Islamic Terrorism groups, reflecting the complexity of the issues. This book is a summary of Sageman's findings, opinions and recommendations for handling Global Islamic Jihadism.
At times the book is hard to read, with a detailed argument being made as to the nature of Sageman's three waves of Islamic Jihadism and necessary counters to each. But most of the book is straight forward and fairly easy to follow. The writing style is less dense than one would expect from an academic of Dr. Sageman's employment.
The opinions, conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Sageman are rather controversial, and as Dr. Sageman statets, will not be acceptable to the right wing of American Politics, but are probably the real final answers. The biggest danger Dr. Sagemen warns of is casting all of Islam into one image, that of the radical Jihad, and thus turning all of the Muslim world against the West. Dr. Sageman repeatedly calls for working with the moderate, peaceful, vast majority of Muslims and assisting them in controlling their right fringe. Otherwise, if the West angers all of Muslim, the West will find itself far outnumbered and soundly beaten by the Muslim world. The details of how this could easily come about, and how to prevent it from happening are the message of this book.
Whether or not one agrees with Dr. Sageman,this is a position that should be understood by all individual involved in making policy decisions, and a happening that should be watched and guarded against.
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