Jihad Joe Review At Zenpundit: "A Book To Admire"

My new book, Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam, was reviewed by Charles Cameron at Zenpundit. Some excerpts:

Berger's work is detail-packed and focused, and a useful resource for that reason alone. But it is also and specifically the work of someone who has read and talked with and listened to the people he is writing about, and his work carries their voices embedded in his own commentary. It thus joins such works as Jessica Stern's Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill and Mark Juergensmeyer's similarly named and similarly excellent Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. [...]

Berger neither condemns nor excuses: he sees, he asks, he researches, he reports. His observations of the current situation can thus be trusted to be driven by insight rather than ideology -- not the most common of stances, but one we very much need. [...]

Berger's is a book to read, certainly -- and more significantly perhaps, a book to admire.

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