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America Confronts Radical Islam 1967-1989. Tinder: Islam & Arab Nationalism 1967-75 Spark: The Shia Revolts in Lebanon & Iran Backfire: Sunni Jihad in Cairo, Kabul, & Beyond. When Social Science Met Islam. Egypt’s Dilemma: Arab Nationalism or Radical Islam?. Gamal Abdel Nasser .
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America ConfrontsRadical Islam 1967-1989 • Tinder: Islam & Arab Nationalism 1967-75 • Spark: The Shia Revolts in Lebanon & Iran • Backfire: Sunni Jihad in Cairo, Kabul, & Beyond
Egypt’s Dilemma:Arab Nationalism or Radical Islam? Gamal Abdel Nasser With the Muslim Brothers 1954 Sayyid Qutb in Jail With Cuba’s Che Guevara in 1964
Finding the Right Kind of Muslim King Saud with Ike & Nixon Crown Prince Faisal with JFK The Shah with LBJ
Turning Point: The Six Day War Israelis at Al Aqsa Mosque Palestinians Flee to Jordan
The Vanished Imam& the Shia Jihad • Slumdog Fundamentalist • The Theology of Liberation • The Return of the Twelfth Imam Imam Musa al-Sadr
Radical Islam in Lebanon Hezbollah’s Flag Imad Mugniyah Sheik Mohammed Fadlallah
Iran: Reform & Religion Mohammed Mossadeq Ali Shariati Ali Amini Ruhollah Khomeini
Islam in Iran after Khomeini Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mohammed Khatemi
Egypt:Qutb’s Ghost & the Sunni Jihad Islamists in Jail Sept. 1981 The Good Arab: Anwar Sadat Sadat’s Assassins Oct. 1981
Sunni Jihad in Afghanistan Mohammed Dauod Khan Leonid Brezhnev & Nur Mohammed Taraki Hafizullah Amin Mullah Omar Meet the Mujahadeen
Radical Sunnismin the Horn of Africa Somalia: A Model Failed State Mohammed Farah Aideed
Radical Sunnism in Algeria Madani Mezrag Islamic Salvation Front
The Mahdi’s Ghost:Radical Sunnism in Sudan Jafaar Nimieri Where Green Meets Black Hassan al-Turabi & Osama Bin Laden
The Rise of Al Qaeda • Blowback from Afghanistan • Blowback from the First Gulf War • The 1990s: Terror, Fatwa, & Jihad Ayman al-Zawahiri & Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden’s Protégés Yemen: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Iraq: Abu Musab Zarqawi Syria: The Al Nusra Front Mali: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb