Jihad, radicalism, and the new atheism / Mohammad Hassan Khalil.
Is Islam inherently a 'problem'? For influential New Atheists such as Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Richard Dawkins, the answer is an emphatic yes, largely because of the Islamic doctrine of jihad. According to this view, when al-Qaeda plotted 9/11 or ISIS planned any one of its recent terrorist...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Jihad. War and peace in the foundational texts of Islam ; Jihad in Islamic law
- Part II: Violent radicalism: Bin Laden, 9/11, and ISIS. "So we kill their innocents": Bin Laden and 9/11 ; "Our hearts bleed": 9/11 and contemporary Muslim thought ; "We will take revenge": A word on ISIS
- Part III: The new Atheism. "We are at war with Islam": The case of Sam Harris ; "It is about Islam": The case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali ; "Imagine a world with no religion": A word on Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett
- Conclusion.