The Al Qaeda reader
Reference & Research Book News, Feb, 2008
The Al Qaeda reader.
Ed. by Raymond Ibrahim.
Doubleday
2007
318 pages
$26.00
Hardcover
HV6433
Ibrahim (Near Eastern Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress) presents translations of al Qaeda texts in which Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, or their agents lay out the justifications for their actions and seek to gain converts to their cause. In the first section of the book he presents three treatises that he characterizes as theological in which the authors discuss relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, the superiority of sharia law to democracy, and the legitimacy of suicide bombings and the killing of innocents. The second section of the book contains al Qaeda messages directed at the world at large, which focus more on perceptions of injustice on the part of the United States and Israel.
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