A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America
Much in this book will, as the author admits, be familiar, the events of September 11, the idea of jihad, but former BBC journalist and scholar Ruthven is worth reading for the occasional stunning insight he offers into the psychology underlying terrorism by drawing on less well-known scholarship. He asserts, for instance, that the motivations of suicide attackers are not naive faith or "Islamic heroism, but... "Nietzschean despair" a frustration with the world's refusal to conform to the right path laid down by God.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.