Talking to the Enemy
Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2010
576 pages
978-0-06-202074-1 (ISBN)
Description
Atran explores the way terrorists think of themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists.Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author of Securing the CityTalking to the Enemy by Scott Atran is an eye-opening and important book that offers readers a startling look deep inside terror groups. Based on the authors unprecedented access to and in-depth interviews with terrorists and jihadisincluding Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Taliban extremists, as well as members of other radical Islamic terror organizationsTalking to the Enemy provides fresh insight and unexpected answers to why there are people in this world willing to kill and die for a cause. A riveting, compelling work in the tradition of The Looming Tower and Terror in the Name of God, Talking to the Enemy is required reading for anyone interested in making the world a safer, more secure place for everyone.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Part I: THE CAUSE
- CHAPTER 1 SULAWESI: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK
- CHAPTER 2 TO BE HUMAN: WHAT IS IT?
- CHAPTER 3 THE MOORS OF MEZUAK
- Part II: THE RELIGIOUS RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS
- CHAPTER 4 CREATION OF THE WESTERN WORLD
- CHAPTER 5 SUBMISSION: ISLAM
- CHAPTER 6 THE TIDES OF TERROR
- CHAPTER 7 A PARALLEL UNIVERSE: THE 9/11 HAMBURG GROUP AND: THE THREE WAVES OF JIHAD
- Part III: WHITHER AL QAEDA? BALI AND MADRID
- CHAPTER 8 FARHIN'S WAY
- CHAPTER 9 THE ROAD TO BALI: "FOR ALL YOU CHRISTIAN INFIDELS!"
- CHAPTER 10 THE JI SOCIAL CLUB
- CHAPTER 11 THE GREAT TRAIN BOMBING: MADRID, MARCH 1 1, 2004
- CHAPTER 12 LOOKING FOR AL QAEDA
- CHAPTER 13 THE ORDINARINESS OF TERROR
- Part IV: THE WILD EAST
- CHAPTER 14 PRYING INTO PAKISTAN
- CHAPTER 15 A QUESTION OF HONOR: WHY THE TALIBAN FIGHT AND: WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
- CHAPTER 16 THE TERROR SCARE: EXAGGERATING THREATS AT HOME: AND ABROAD
- Part V: WAR PARTIES-GROUPS, GODS, AND GLORY
- CHAPTER 17 ALL IN THE FAMILY: IMAGINED KIN, FRIENDSHIP, : AND TEAMWORK
- CHAPTER 18 BLOOD SPORT: WAR MAKES MEN MEN
- CHAPTER 19 BEYOND ALL REASON: THE CLAUSEWITZ DELUSION
- Part VI: "THE MOTHER OF ALL PROBLEMS"-PALESTINE, THE WORLD'S SYMBOLIC KNOT
- CHAPTER 20 MARTYRDOM 101
- CHAPTER 21 WORDS TO END WARS: THE SCIENCE OF THE SACRED
- Part VII: THE DIVINE DREAM AND THE COLLAPSE OF CULTURES
- CHAPTER 22 BAD FAITH: THE NEW ATHEIST SALVATION
- CHAPTER 23 HUMAN RITES: NATURAL ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF RELIGION
- CHAPTER 24 OUR RELIGIOUS WORLD
- EPILOGUE: ABE'S ANSWER-THE QUESTION OF POLITICS
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- ALSO BY SCOTT ATRAN
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
