Islam Versus Terrorism: An Intimate View of Understanding Islam and the Culture of the Middle East

by Firooz Eftekhar Zadeh

Islam versus Terrorism provides information on a faith which dictates the lives of an ever-increasing number of followers (Moslems), already estimated at 1.6 billion. It also highlights the importance... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967448018
• ISBN13: 9780967448015
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Twin Lakes Pub.
• Length: 133 Pages

Customer Reviews

With a particular eye toward the September 11 attacks

Providing an insightful and illuminating explanation of Islam as practiced throughout the Middle East, Islam Versus Terrorism by educator and lecturer Firooze E. Zadeh is an articulate, straightforward, informative presentation about Islam, a religion practiced by an estimated 1.6 billion people worldwide, and which like all religions has been misused by a minority of its believers to perpetrate intolerable cruelties "in the name of God". With a particular eye toward the September 11 attacks, Islam Versus Terrorism emphasizes that Islam is a peaceful religion that does not spawn terrorism - rather it is political, social, cultural, and economic desperation which creates terrorism and terrorists, and that is America's foreign policy with regard to the predominantly Islamic nations which needs to be scrutinized more closely than ever in the wake of September 11 if terrorism is to be successfully and fairly dealt with.