Faith, Reason and the War Against Jihadism - A Call to Action

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“History must be made to march in the direction of genuine human progress; world affairs have no intrinsic momentum that necessarily results in the victory of decency. Maintaining the morale necessary to achieving progress in history requires us to live our lives, today, against a moral horizon of responsibility that is wider and deeper than the quest for personal satisfactions. The future of our civilization does not rest merely on the advance of material wealth and technological prowess; the future of the West turns on the question of whether our spiritual aspirations are noble or base.”
—from Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism

More than half a decade after 9/11, safe passage through a moment of history fraught with both peril and possibility requires Americans across the political spectrum to see things as they are.

In this incisive, engaging study of the present danger and what we must do to prevail against it, George Weigel, one of America’s foremost public intellectuals, does precisely that: he sees, and describes, things as they are—and as they might be. Drawing on a quarter century of experience at the intersection of moral argument and public policy, he describes rigorously and clearly the threat posed by global jihadism: the religiously inspired ideology which teaches that it is the moral obligation of all Muslims to employ whatever means are necessary to compel the world’s submission to Islam. Exploring that ideology’s theological, social, cultural, and political roots, Weigel points a new direction for both public policy and interreligious dialogue, one that meets the challenge of jihadism forthrightly while creating the conditions for a less threatening, more mutually enriching encounter between Islam and the West.

Essential reading in a time of momentous political decisions, Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism is a clarion call for a new seriousness of debate and a new clarity of purpose in American public life.

Reviews:

“Weigel has written one of the most important books since 9/11. It’s a bracing, challenging, and compelling account of the war we are in and which we have to win.”
—William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard


“George Weigel has produced a thoughtful manifesto that wisely calls for bipartisan unity against a foe that threatens all that we cherish.”
—Joe Lieberman, U.S.senator

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Deserves a Serious Reading

Few people in the United States today will deny the gravity of the global threat of Islamic jihadism. Aside from the appalling terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, one can easily see ongoing clashes in much of Western Europe as secularism meets radical Islam. Riots erupted in the streets as angry Muslims demonstrated their outrage over cartoons published in Danish and other European newspapers in September of 2005. There was even an alleged plot to assassinate cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The cartoon controversy is only the tip of the iceberg in a growing clash between Western democracies and Islamic jihadism.

In Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, George Weigel lays out 15 lessons that should have been learned since September 11, 2001, if not before, and explains how they impact the policies of Western democracies in the struggle with radical Islam.

The book is broken down into three main parts. In part one ("Understandin Full Review...

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