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A review by 12_gon
Bombing Without Moonlight: The Origins of Suicidal Terrorism by Abdal Hakim Murad
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
tense
fast-paced
4.75
Hard to rate this book because clearly there is more work in here than I can comprehend. I just thought it was a little disjointed, though that could be more a fault of the reader than author.
Very good, very informative. Unbelievable Murad tackles so much, with such brevity. "Like many Islamists, [Foucault] was a lapsed Marxist, concerned with making a statement, with angering the middle-class West... " As a Jewish person, I thought Foucault sucked too. 'The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.' Although I do despise certain sects of Islam, I can see my erroneous thinking in that the dominant narrative I see in the west, is one sent by populism, not by a want to soothe conflict. Though most concern themselves with battles of rich versus poor, I too see the villains of the bourgeois. Those with an multi-vectored excess of surplus. Those who are always hungry, never satiated with their food. The once wolves, now extremists lap-dogs of schizo-capitalism. Whether the bomb is fueled by oil money or blood money, it kills the same innocence regardless.
Very good, very informative. Unbelievable Murad tackles so much, with such brevity. "Like many Islamists, [Foucault] was a lapsed Marxist, concerned with making a statement, with angering the middle-class West... " As a Jewish person, I thought Foucault sucked too. 'The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.' Although I do despise certain sects of Islam, I can see my erroneous thinking in that the dominant narrative I see in the west, is one sent by populism, not by a want to soothe conflict. Though most concern themselves with battles of rich versus poor, I too see the villains of the bourgeois. Those with an multi-vectored excess of surplus. Those who are always hungry, never satiated with their food. The once wolves, now extremists lap-dogs of schizo-capitalism. Whether the bomb is fueled by oil money or blood money, it kills the same innocence regardless.
Graphic: Death