This book's arrival has been promised since January 2005. Amazon.com says it will ship in April of next year. The conservatives favorite serial adulterer and the blogger below seem to think its publication is imminent.
The Al Qaeda Reader
by Raymond Ibrahim (Editor)
From CUANAS:
I am going through the rough draft of a new Al-Qaeda reader this morning, translated and edited by Raymond Ibrahim, soon to be released by Doubleday. What do Dr. Zawahri and bin Laden complain about from their caves in Pakistan? Why,
of course, the American failure to sign Kyoto, our desecration of the environment, George Bush reading a goat story on the morning of 9/11, Halliburton, and—that critically-important concern of radical Islam— the lack of campaign finance reform in the United States. Much of their rants are simply jottings and notes taken from watching Fahrenheit 9/11 and killing time in
hideouts by listening to talking heads on CNN.
From WritersReps.com:
The Al-Qaeda Reader
by Raymond Ibrahim [Doubleday, 2007]
The AL-QAEDA READER was front-page news when it was sold for publication, in Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Le Monde, USA Today, New York Daily News, Associated Press, Reuters, and The Sunday Telegraph (London). It was also reported on, on CNN and Fox nightly news.
Al-Qaeda is not without articulation or intellectual sophistication. Like other totalitarians, they have rationalized their brutality in a number of published treatises. Working at the Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, Ray Ibrahim has had tremendous access to writings by Bin Laden and his cohorts, written both pre- and post-9/11. He found striking differences between statements published in English for Westerners and those in Arabic for Muslims. Al-Qaeda's publications for the Muslim world are completely different in tone and content. Ibrahim has translated work by Bin Laden and Aymin Zawahiri in which they define Islamic ideology in terms of the Muslim versus the non-Muslim world and its "infidel" inhabitants. These texts deal with jihad, repudiation of democracy in favor of Islamic law, the importance of martyrdom, the imperative of despising all non-Muslims (no matter how "justly" they may deal with the Islamic world), the hypocrisy of so-called "moderate Islam," and loathsome assertions regarding women, minorities, and homosexuals.
This book makes clear that al-Qaeda is not an organization committed to a war that is finite, defensive, and based on specific complaints. Al-Qaeda stresses Islam's compulsory demand for "offensive jihad," that is, not because Islam is "under attack," as they claim in messages to the West, but simply to offer the world the three sacred choices: accept Islam, live in total submission to Islamic overlords as marginal citizens of an Islamic state, or die. Although it is a troubling thing for many people to accept, al-Qaeda's terrorism is not based on a perversion of tradition, but on traditional piety, and their interpretations of the Koran can be argued on a textual basis. Members of al-Qaeda always ground their arguments in the traditional sources of Islamic inspiration: the Koran and Tradition of the Prophet. They remind Muslims of the history of Muhammad and his warrior-companions in the glorious first years when Islam was launched by the sword. Militant verses are continuously hammered out, and Muslims are reminded that the Koran cannot be understood as merely historical, but contains literal Truth that transcends time.
The world must recognize and respond to the threat, not through bigotry or wishful thinking, but through an educated understanding of the incompatibility of Islam and Western ideals. This book, a selection of works faithfully translated, will give every reader better knowledge of al-Qaeda and its mission, because until now, we just haven't had all the facts. This book is essential to understanding the minds, motives, methods, and ultimate goals of militant Islam.
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