Daniel Pipes Books

Long Before September 11, Daniel Pipes publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had gone to war against America. Drawing on his thirty years of intensive research on Islam, he shows the vital distinction between the faith of Islam and the ideology of militant Islam. Among his findings: militant Islam has much in common with fascism and communism; about one in every eight Muslims worldwide supports militant Islam; 70,000 Al-Qaeda accomplices remain at large in over fifty countries; Michael Jackson and Madonna are, in the eyes of militant Islam, "cultural terrorists" who should be brought to trial; militant Islamic groups have raised $I.3 million for the defense of indicted murder suspect Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown). Militant Islam Reaches America is one of the important and readable books about the grave issues that now confront America.

While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected. This is Pan-Syrian nationalism--the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied in depth, Pan-Syrianism has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end of World War I. In Greater Syria , the noted Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology.

In dieser brillanten und provokativen Analyse untersucht Daniel Pipes die Entwicklung von Verschwörungstheorien und deren Auswirkungen. Er zeigt, wie sich in Europa seit den Kreuzzügen die Entstehung von Verschwörungstheorien in zwei unterschiedliche Richtungen entwickelte. Eine Richtung verfolgt die Bildung geheimer Gesellschaften, von den Templern über die Freimaurer bis hin zum Council on Foreign Relations, während die andere die Auffassung vertritt, dass die Welt von einem „internationalen Judentum“ beherrscht wird. Pipes beleuchtet die Annahmen, dass bestimmte Akteure für die französische oder russische Revolution, die beiden Weltkriege und andere entscheidende Ereignisse der modernen Geschichte verantwortlich sind. Besonders aufschlussreich sind die schockierenden Folgen von Verschwörungstheorien in der Zeit, als Hitler und Stalin an die Macht kamen. „Verschwörung“ bietet viele faszinierende Enthüllungen.