The Mind of a Jihadist

Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, and Slavery. M.A. Khan. New York:iUniverse, Inc, 2009. 357 pp. Since the Islamic terror attacks perpetrated on the United States on 9/11/2001, Americans and people in the West have wondered what drove nineteen Muslim fanatics to commit such an atrocity. In M.A. Khan's seminal and scholarly work, Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, and Slavery, the reader is given a good background on why these attacks and many other Islamic attacks have taken place throughout the centuries. One word describes it: Jihad. The term Jihad in Arabic means "struggle", but...