[little jeremiah]

For some mysterious reason, I don't want to read about jihadi terrorism. I read enough about it on FR. Although now that I read my own words, they look weasly and wimpy. What titles do you reccommend?

I read the 900 pager and it was great. I am not a scientist, so some of it was a little slow going, but it is written for the layman as well as people in the field.

Apparently he gives lectures all over the world and is speaking at academic groups as well as "alternative science" types. In Europe, Asia and naturally India, since his specialty seems to be the ancient Vedic culture. But in Elngland I've seen that he speaks at universities and such.

What I need is to never sleep so I can read more.

[swarthyguy]

>>What titles do you reccommend?

Do you really want to ask that? :))

Destro, did you have a thread about books on Jihad a couple of months ago?

Political Islam (Giles Kepel - moderate take

Dollars and Terror - Richard Labeviere

What went wrong
The crisis of islam - Both by Bernard Lewis

Clash of Civilisations - Huntington

The Cell - John Martin Mitchell Stone (NYPD?FBI Crime reporters very good take

A fury for God - Malise Ruthven (Great overview and chapter on Qutb, modern founder of jihad and his trip to the USA!!

The Rage and the Pride - Orianna Fallacci (emotional from the heart screed

The HUnt for BinLadin - Robin Moore ( How we didn't find him in Afghanistan -

Inside Al Qaeda - Rohan Gunaratna

Bin Laden - Yoosef Bodansky

Hatred's Kingdom - Dore Gold ( Saud

Charlie Wilson's War - George Crile ( 80's Jihad

Sleeping with the Devil - Robert Baer (Saudi

Onward Muslim Soldiers - Robert Spencer (Opposite of Kepel, Armstong, Costello!!!

Pakistan - Ii the Shadow of Jihad - Mary Jane Weaver

Pakistan - Eye of the Storm - Owen Bennett Jones, BBC newsreader, symptomatic of the conventional take on Pak . Weaver's is more personality oriented with a journalistic eye.

FBI - A Secret History - Kessler

American Jihad - Steve Emerson

Bush at War - Woodward

Terrorist Hunter - Anonymous ( Rita Katz - siteinstitute

Also have read the other side, primarily Gore Vidal's collection of essays excrociating the Bush administration, but am an old Vidal fiction fan - Creation, Lincoln and his American tales like Burr, etc.