Militant Islamist Renunciations from Egyptian Prisons
11.16.2010 at 09:39am
Militant
Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat,” published in 2010 by Naval
Institute Press. Commander Aboul-Enein teaches an elective on Islam, Islamist Political
Theory and Militant Islamist Ideology at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
He wishes to thank the University of Iowa and National Defense University Libraries
for providing this work for analysis.
Thank you…I enjoyed reading this review and hope that these ideas get the traction that they deserve…this is how to take the battle to the adversary on his own ground…to take it from the physical domain into the information domain where for so long we have been lagging…it would be interesting to see what further commentaries might come from the Islamic world on this topic…
Talk of fracturing within ‘Islamist’ community is all very interesting – and comparisons to similar schisms infecting communist regimes also edifying no doubt – but let’s face it the real divide is all about secularism and the rise of the individual, why and how these cultural permutations evolved in the West but languished in the East in general and within Islamic cultures in particular – ‘extremism’ is just a subset of that central disconnect between East and West – in this regard a study of the rise of Europe from the fall of Rome to Westphalia and contemporaneous developments in China and Islam are most revealing – in other words, you can’t just think of the problem merely in terms of religion and its theological extensions.