Traces the evolution of Muslim extremism from its earliest stirrings to today's violent acts of terrorism.

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The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- [1.] Paradise. Are apostates executed? -- Contemporary legal rulings in Shi'i law in accordance with the rulings (fatwa) of Ayatullah al-Uzma al-Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Seestani -- "Martyr's Blood" / Morteza Motah-Hary -- The boilerplate Islamic will -- Death's comely reward, the suicide bomber's erotic afterlife -- Purification and prayer -- Hitler's promises to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem -- Glubb Pasha on the Middle East crisis -- Jews in Muslim lands -- Political cartoons -- [2.] Pan-Islamism. Occidentosis: a plague from the west / Jalal Al-I Ahmad -- "Do not call jihad a defense," from Milestones, the book that killed its author / Sayyid Qutb -- "Revolutions are never brought about by cowards and the imbecilic" / Maulana Maudoodi -- The Muslim Brotherhood -- Memoirs of Hasan Al-Banna Shaheed, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood -- East and West: shall they meet? / Anwar Sadat -- The book that killed Anwar Sadat and provoked Usamah Bin-Laden's holy war / Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj -- Political cartoons -- [3.] Palestine. "You have made me your human bomb" / Edna Yaghi -- "A fashionable hijack," from My People Shall Live, memoir of the attractive Palestinian revolutionary / Leila Khaled -- "Yasser" means "easy": Yasser Arafat's address to the UN, November 1974 -- "Gush Emunim" / Yosef Hermoni -- Anthrax should be put in US water supply says Hamas columnist -- Monthly report on the Israeli colonization activities in the West Bank, August 2001-- "The Hebrew state will end in 2027" / Sheikh Ahmed Yassin -- [4.] Poetry -- [5.] Propaganda color section -- [6.] Temple Mount. Poems against the West / Allama Iqbal -- "The approaching battle for Jerusalem and the war of Gog and Magog" / TempleMountFaithful.org -- Holy war ground zero -- "There's a war on, folks: the coming tribulation" / Lambert Dolphin -- [7.] Iran. Breaking of ties with the great Satan, America / Imam Khomeini -- The den of spies from the imam's point of view -- Imam Khomeini's message on the occasion of the Day of Quds, 1981 -- The Shah and SAVAK are overthrown but terror is here to stay -- "Blood of the Shahid is the candlelight which gives vision" / Ali Shariati -- [8.] The radical outsiders. Saddam Hussein's email to an American citizen -- The Green Book / Muammar al Qaddafi -- "Jihad, mankind's only hope" / Abdul Malik -- Algeria, a violent state of mind -- Nation of Islam Q & A -- "The great announcement" / Louis Farrakhan -- Muslim vs. Muslim: the fatwa against the Nation of Islam -- Dajjal the AntiChrist / Ahmad Thomson -- "Islam and the death of democracy" / Shaykh Abdalqadir as-sufi al-Murabit -- "How can I train myself for jihad?" -- "Killing infidels in Chechnya," a foreign mujahid's diary -- "Genocide: Serbia, 1993" / Hizb-ut-Tahrir -- Fundamentalism in Russia: an interview with Islamic committee Heidar Jamal / Nabi Abdullaev -- [9.] Bin Laden/Taliban. Restrictions imposed by the Taliban -- "God's order to kill Americans": Usamah Bin-Laden's 1998 Fatwa -- The final night -- "Assassinations using poisons and cold steel": al-Qaeda's terror manual brought to court -- Bin-Laden thanks Allah for 9/11/01, al-Qaeda press release, 10/8/01 -- The prohibited Voice of America interview with Mullah Omar Mohammad -- "Subject: Bin Laden is a 'mother fucker'" -- "The infidel hell," from The Spectacle of Death / K.M. Islam.