God’s Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen (PDF)

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What are the roots of today’s militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who sought the restoration of Islamic purity and declared violent jihad on all who opposed them. The Wahhabi teaching spread rapidly-first throughout the Arabian Peninsula, then to the Indian subcontinent, where a more militant expression of Wahhabism flourished. The ranks of today’s Taliban and al-Qaeda are filled with young men trained in Wahhabi theology. God’s Terrorists sheds much-needed light on the origins of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous ideology lives on today.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Charles Allen is an acknowledged authority on British Indian and South Asian history. His most recent books include Soldier Sahibs and The Buddha and the Sahibs. He lives in London.

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⭐Interesting historical look at the spread of radical Islam throughout colonial India and its ties back to the rise of radical Islamic theology in the declining Ottoman Empire. It exposes roots to terrorist movements like al Qaeda and ties the roots of this radical movement to the House of Saud like few other accounts have.There are clearly lessons to be learned here and insights about what the West is up against – particular in this region of the world where Bin Laden is believed to be given safe-harbored but I was completely let down by the author’s brief and poorly argued conclusion. It seemed thrown-in as an after thought.Otherwise it was a fascinating historical read that I would highly recommend.

⭐Don’t be confused by a previous review. Terrorism and Wahhabism are indeed synonymous. That terrorism is currently being played out by the spawn: Taliban and al-Qaeda. This is a well-researched book albeit it a difficult read for the novice of Islam. If you are curious about how our civilization got into this mess, read this accounting of Muslim history. The reading has left me frustrated about how global terrorism will ever be conquered because of this fundamentalism rooted in Wahhabi teachings. Take young men, send them to Wahabbi madrassahs, teach them to administer sharia law to include beheading and mutilation of the apostate and infidel populations with a goal of martyrdom and you come up with the challenge of the 21st century!

⭐The book is useful & contains some important information, but spends far too much time & space going into exhaustive detail about various battles in the Northwest Frontier Province of what was then India, when more detail on the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia & it’s political resurgence would have been more useful. It seems to segue abruptly back there.At the same time, learning about the Wahhabi roots of the Deoband seminary was valuable.

⭐Good informative read

⭐The references are extensive and at times difficult to follow as the author jumped from one episode to another with different names appearing without any context. This book reads like a newspaper.

⭐Book was purchased for a classroom report. It got an A.

⭐A must for those who would like to understand the background to Militant Islam and it’s ever creeping past and aggression.

⭐This was a very informative read.

⭐A very readable account of the rise of Wahhabism in the North West Frontier of India and the Middle East. It is a difficult book to put down and clearly explains the fanaticism of these Islamic extremists.

⭐The essential guide to two eventual groups

⭐A book based on careful and extensive research. The author’s prose is of a high standard and readily digestible.

⭐This book should be compulsory reading for all “Western” politicianseverywhere; otherwise they will continue their failure to get to gripswith modern fanatical terrorism.PR.

⭐A fascinating read – digs deep into the roots of the modern day Jihad with ease.

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