Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:29:05 AM
"True to its title, The War of Ideas juxtaposes the antithetical, and ultimately existential, ideas that fuel the current conflict, particularly by expounding the many irreconcilable positions between democracy and radical Islam and how the latter has declared war on fundamental pillars of the former, including pluralism, gender equality, freedom of speech, and religion."
The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy
By Raymond Ibrahim
After the strikes of 9/11, a plethora of books dealing with the threat of radical Islam appeared in the West. In
The War of Ideas: Jihad Against Democracy, Dr. Walid Phares -- who had been studying Islamism and its impact on international relations decades before 9/11 made it popular -- goes one step further by articulating the struggle from democracy's point of view. That is, not only does he delineate the general threat that radical Islam and jihad pose to the non-Muslim world, but he does so through a distinctly democratic paradigm, showing what, specifically, is at stake.
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