TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mamdani,Mahmood
TI  - Good Muslim, bad Muslim : : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / 
SN  - 9780385515375
AV  - E840. M363 2005
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Three Leaves Press, 
KW  - Cold War.
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  -  History
KW  -  20th century.
KW  - Terrorism
KW  -  Political aspects
KW  - Drug traffic
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  -  Causes.
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
KW  - Developing countries
KW  -  Foreign relations
KW  -  United States.
KW  - United States
KW  -  1945-1989.
KW  -  Afghanistan.
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  -  Developing countries.
N1  - Abstract: "Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"—jacket.; Contents: Modernity and violence -- Culture talk, or How not to talk about Islam and politics -- The Cold War after Indochina -- Afghanistan : the high point in the Cold War -- From proxy wars to open aggression -- Beyond impunity and collective punishment.
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