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This is one of the latest texts on the subject- makes for uncomfortable reading. A couple of reviews.
The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke review ? important and impressive | Books | The Guardian
The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke, review: 'persuasive'
I read both of those articles in full. Before I read them I'd already had an uncomfortable feeling that we've dealt with a problem of this nature more recently than we care to admit.
It seems this is fundamentally some form of radical twisted idea of a "final solution" that's being associated unfairly with the Islamic religion - convert or die (unless you happen to be a race we don't like), in the meantime we'll simply do our best to exterminate those we don't like. Remind you of someone else from 20th century history?
On the 7th September 2001 I was on an American Airlines flight from Gatwick to Las Vegas. I'd never encountered the level of security at the airport that happened that day, either before or since. We had no idea what was going on, but the security services certainly did, or at least they new something, just not quite what exactly.
By pure coincidence I was reading an Andy McNab book on the flight which contained a lot of information about Osama Bin Laden - so a couple of days later whilst sat int he poker room of the 4 Queens in Fremont Street I kind of had some idea of who was behind what had happened.
What we seem to be dealing with here is not some form of reaction to a single event but an entire new threat to civilisation as we currently understand it.
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