I will highly recommend this book to everyone who wants peace to prevail in the world. This book will definitely change your perspective about everything that's been going on in the world.
The history didn't start with 9/11 but has a very long prelude. Fuller, has examined the history of religions, wars and conflicts that took place after the crucifixion of Jesus a.k.a Prophet Isa (A.S) to determine that religion has always been an excuse of people to attain their ulterior motives. It has always been about power and control.
First there were Jews who denied to accept the new religion - Christianity -because they felt the new religion was threatening their status in the world and did everything they could to destroy this new religion. Later the conflict was between different sects of Christianity who fought for power and control that led to the division of Rome. When Islam came the west was already perceived as the enemy in east and Islam just inherited that hatred for the west from the east.
Fuller, also discussed about how people think that Islam was spread with use of sword when in reality it was Christianity that declared capital punishment for non believers. Also, the idea of suicide bombings were unheard among Muslims few decades ago, and the first suicide attacks were carried out not by Muslims but hindu tamil tigers in Srilanka in 1980s.
Overall, it was great and very informative book. Fuller, has also discussed what policies of the west can reduce terrorism and how separating religion from the equation can help bring peace in the world.
I love the writting style of Fuller and the way he explained the views of both sides withouth any being biased.