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It's Not About Religion
It's Not About Religion
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Gregory Harms’s It’s Not about Religion is a masterful analysis of the relationship between religion and terrorism in the Middle East. In a thoroughly engaging and accessible volume, he analyzes and demonstrates that the origins of grievances in the Middle East are not religious but the product of the politics of the Middle East and the conduct of American foreign policy.
—John L. Esposito, Georgetown University
For anyone wishing to understand the disconnect between the protests of the “Arab Spring” that have so inspired us all, and the Western image of the Middle East as an eternally fundamentalist, freedom-hating backwater, this book is for you. An informative, lively, and humane look at the real sources of conflict and struggle in the region.
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Gregory Harms’s It’s Not about Religion is a welcome breath of reason in the midst of our continued and willful ignorance about all things Islamic, Middle Eastern, and, especially, Muslim. Important and timely.
—Nick Flynn, award-winning writer and poet
Underlying the problems that beset U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is a deep and abiding popular ignorance of that region. Gregory Harms’s new book—short, readable, and accurate—is the perfect curative for this uneducated state. To the extent that this work is read and acted upon, the future of U.S.–Middle East relations should improve.
—Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
IT'S NOT ABOUT RELIGION
Gregory Harms
When the Middle East is covered on the news or depicted in film, what is shown is a region defined almost exclusively by violence, chaos, and extremism, and a common question often arises in response: Does religion have anything to do with it?
In this concise book, Gregory Harms examines a range of topics in an effort to answer the question. As the book's title indicates, the region's woes and instability are in fact not caused by biblical or Islamic factors. Harms reveals a list of entirely secular factors and realities as he examines how and why Americans view the Arab Middle East the way they do; the history of European and U.S. involvement in the region; the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism; and how academics and the mass media tend to discuss the region and its inhabitants.
In roughly one hundred pages, the reader is shown a constellation of history and culture that will hopefully help move the conversation of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in a more grounded and precise direction.
—John L. Esposito, Georgetown University
For anyone wishing to understand the disconnect between the protests of the “Arab Spring” that have so inspired us all, and the Western image of the Middle East as an eternally fundamentalist, freedom-hating backwater, this book is for you. An informative, lively, and humane look at the real sources of conflict and struggle in the region.
—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Gregory Harms’s It’s Not about Religion is a welcome breath of reason in the midst of our continued and willful ignorance about all things Islamic, Middle Eastern, and, especially, Muslim. Important and timely.
—Nick Flynn, award-winning writer and poet
Underlying the problems that beset U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is a deep and abiding popular ignorance of that region. Gregory Harms’s new book—short, readable, and accurate—is the perfect curative for this uneducated state. To the extent that this work is read and acted upon, the future of U.S.–Middle East relations should improve.
—Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
IT'S NOT ABOUT RELIGION
Gregory Harms
When the Middle East is covered on the news or depicted in film, what is shown is a region defined almost exclusively by violence, chaos, and extremism, and a common question often arises in response: Does religion have anything to do with it?
In this concise book, Gregory Harms examines a range of topics in an effort to answer the question. As the book's title indicates, the region's woes and instability are in fact not caused by biblical or Islamic factors. Harms reveals a list of entirely secular factors and realities as he examines how and why Americans view the Arab Middle East the way they do; the history of European and U.S. involvement in the region; the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism; and how academics and the mass media tend to discuss the region and its inhabitants.
In roughly one hundred pages, the reader is shown a constellation of history and culture that will hopefully help move the conversation of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in a more grounded and precise direction.