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The Brian Lehrer Show / September 01, 2006 / What Have We Learned: Wahhabism and Militant Islam

What Have We Learned: Wahhabism and Militant Islam

Friday, September 01, 2006

Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Professor in Middle East and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College and author, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Harcourt 2006) and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge University Press, September 2005)
and
Charles Allen, historian of the British colonial period and author, God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad (Da Capo Press, 2006)
-on the roots of the so-called Wahhabists and their influence on al Qaeda

» more on Journey of the Jihadist
» more on God’s Terrorists


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