Johns Hopkins professor, Mary Habeck studies radical Islamists whom she terms "Jihadis." After hearing her speak last year, I learned an important new way of understanding the mind of the Jihadi.
In 2004 she was serving as adjunct professor of military history at Yale University. Lawrence Auster wroter an excellent summary of Habeck’s thesis that was published in the 8/16/04 issue of FrontPage online magazine.
Mary Habeck appeared twice on C-Span last year where I discovered her, explaining her fascinating ideas about how Jihadist terrorists came to believe as they do. See her featured speech at the Heritage Foundation, or appearing on the C-Span morning journal. (After clicking on this link, enter “Habeck” as the search term).
Professor Habeck has written a book about her ideas that I think will be worth the read. Yale Press published this about her upcoming book. Habeck’s new book on this subject is coming out next year.
Mary Habeck, who defines herself as neither conservative nor liberal, feels strongly that Muslims of good faith and good will should point out the error of the Jihadis' use of violence in the name of Islam. Here is a link to a post by a Muslim writer on the fight for the soul of Islam.
On the opposite side, is a blog by an Arab American Christian that is harshly against all of Islam.
And, just to keep the Liberal antiwar perspective in mind, here is a recent very poignant newspaper editorial by Missy Comley Beatty, who is the aunt of a soldier recently killed in Iraq.
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