RETHINKING ISLAMISM: THE IDEOLOGY OF THE NEW TERROR

"In this provocative new book Meghnad Desai argues that it is quite wrong to treat the followers of Osama Bin Laden and other jihadists, whether home-grown or not, as qualitatively different in their thinking from extreme ideologies such as Leninism, Trotskyism or Maoism; or from the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the Red Brigades, who were also prepared to unleash savage violence against their own countrymen."--p.4 cover.