Mohammed, Allah, and the Mind of War

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978552822
• ISBN13: 9780978552824
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: CSPI
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Civilizational War--The Tripartite Manifesto in Plain English

There should be dozens of reviews of this book, Volume 9 of the Center for the Study of Political Islam's (CSPI) ten-volume series on the teachings of Islam, consisting mostly of verbatim excerpts from the Islamic trilogy of the Koran, Hadith and Sira, translated for the modern reader into "newspaper"/middlebrow English and organized logically, topically and contextually. I have the pleasure of being the first reviewer of this magnificant work of scholarship. At CSPI's website, the publisher mentions the lack of honest and insightful exposition on Islam by the current generation of self-proclaimed experts: "It [the academic world] is filled with experts who refuse to draw any conclusion that is not politically correct." This has not always been so. For instance, in 1920, the towering German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig wrote the following unbelievably prescient words about the civilizational-war-to-come at the start of the 21st Century: "The coming millennium will go down in world history as a struggle between Orient and Occident, between the church and Islam, between the northern peoples and the Arabs." (the foregoing sentence is translated into English from Franz Rosenzweig, Ausgewaehlte Schriften zum Islam, Gesine Palmer and Yossef Schwartz, editors Philo Verlag: Berlin 2003, per a 11-22-05 essay by the pseudonymous "Spengler" at Asia Times Online titled "Indispensable handbook for global theopolitics" -- reviewing a new translation of Rosenzweig's masterwork, The Star of Redemption [which is highly critical of Islamic theology] -- and his essay of 12-02-03, "Oil on the flames of civilizational war") Yes, that was back in 1920! Today, when we really need them, where are the insightful works on Islam and its holy sacrament of Jihad by the West's prominent theologians? Where are the theological essays by respected members of the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy explaining to the laity and the world at large what are the similarities and differences between Islam and the other Abrahamic religions? A "professional" classically has meant "one who renders service to mankind." Until the modern era, a professional was "called" to only one of three fields of endeavor: the law, medicine, or the clergy. Nowadays used car salesmen, stockbrokers and cops are "professionals." However, there are deep thinkers in Western society -- the true professionals, if you will -- who have been traditionally responsible for fleshing out important theological doctrines and distinctions of comparative religion for the laity, the "amateurs." Those "pros" are the sages of the clergy. Yet they've been strangely silent on the all-important topic of Islam and its challenge to Judeo-Christian Western values. They've allowed the amateurs, i.e., laymen, to completely dominate the field. WHY? Sadly, reading this book may well convince you that the twin reasons are the (1) ugliness and (2) painfulness of the truth. In the epilogue, this book delves