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PRECISION IN THE GLOBAL WAR
ON TERROR:
INCITING MUSLIMS
THROUGH THE WAR OF IDEAS

Sherifa Zuhur

April 2008

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production staff, Liz Hall, W. Andrew Terrill, LTC Charles Wilson

II, CH (COL) Kenneth Sampson and his colleagues at the Army

Chaplains' \ue000rst world religions conference, as well as various

colleagues who study Islamism, and K. El Helbawy, H. Youssef,

N. al-Shaer, H. Qa\ue000shah, and my many other interlocuters in the

various periods of \ue000eld research drawn on in this monograph.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword..........................................................................v Biographical Sketch of the Author..............................vii Summary.........................................................................ix Introduction.....................................................................1 Pathologizing...................................................................2 Area Experts vs. Strategic Experts?............................. 4 Islam as the Enemy?...................................................... 5

Tak\ue000rAmerican-Style.................................................... 7

De\ue000ning the Enemy........................................................8

Theologocentrism, Ideology, and
Essentializing.................................................................. 9
Islamofascism................................................................ 11
Islamism..........................................................................13
Parallelism......................................................................14
\u201cSelling\u201d the War of Ideas............................................15

Sala\ue000sm.......................................................................... 15

Strategic Messages about Violent Muslims...............17 Blurring...........................................................................18 Ending Resistance.........................................................19 Zealous Transformation...............................................20 A is for Allah..................................................................22 A is for Apostasy...........................................................24 B is forBast.....................................................................28 B is for Bin Ladin...........................................................29 C is for the Caliphate....................................................31 C is for the Crusaders...................................................34 D is for Democracy.......................................................35 E is for Education (Islamic)..........................................40 E is for Epidemiology...................................................43 E is for Europe...............................................................44 F is forFitna....................................................................48 G is for Guantanamo (and Renditions)......................49 H is forHakmiyya..........................................................52

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