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Article: U.S. foreign policy and Islamist politics.(U.S. Foreign Policy and Islamist Politics)(Book review)
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- American Diplomacy
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- July 8, 2008
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Reviewed by John M. Handley, Ph.D.
-US Foreign Policy and Islamist Politics, by Ahmad S. Moussalli, Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2008 (ISBN 978-0-8130-3149-1), 225 pages, $59.95.
Ahmed Moussalli teaches political science and Islamic studies at the American University in Beirut. This is Dr. Moussalli's fifth book to address Islam and the West and, for a short book, it contains considerable information on Islam in two of its five chapters. Most Western readers will, understandably, either disregard the other three chapters or take some umbrage with his rather blatant anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Israeli positions.
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