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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hider, James. Spiders of Allah. New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009 (OCoLC)891471146 |
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Named Person: | James Hider; James Hider |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Hider |
ISBN: | 9780312565855 0312565852 9780385615549 038561554X |
OCLC Number: | 276335013 |
Notes: | Originally published: Great Britain : Doubleday, 2009. Includes index. |
Description: | 323 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Al-Qaeda goes to Hollywood -- Jaffa Road : the transmitter of hopes and fears -- The Mickey Mouse Death Club : the dirt lot of the Philistines -- Fallen idols, risen angels : into Iraq -- Cut adrift : freedom's city -- Bring 'em on : the birth of an insurgency -- Translator wars : learning to pity the US Proconsul -- In Babylon's halls : tourism under fire -- Ancient feuds : a festival of blood in Karbala -- City of broken mosques : how the spiders of Allah defeated the US Marine Corps -- Two in the heart, one in the mind : battlefields of the soul -- Death in the Venice of the East : three summers in Basra -- Inside the spider's web : the fall of Fallujah -- Pandora's sandbox : bombs, beheadings, and bullshit -- Creatures of the id : why we fight -- Canaanite karma. |
Responsibility: | James Hider. |
Abstract:
The bloodshed perpetrated in the name of religion in the world is nowhere more obvious than in the Middle East. This book intends to cast a compassionate eye on the very worst and most violent crimes committed in the name of religion and asks questions that the world needs to answer if we are to stand a chance of facing our own worst demons.
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