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Article: Hizbullah: Politics and Religion.(Book Review)
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- Middle East Policy
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Middle East Policy Council. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb. London & Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002. x + 191 pages, with 2 appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography and index. $69.95, hardcover; $22.50, paperback.
In the West, the Hizbullah (Party of God) of Lebanon is among the most misunderstood and unjustly maligned organizations. It has been demonized and dismissed as a terrorist group whose only tenets are kidnapping and suicide bombing, when in fact it reflects a groundswell of response to tyranny, oppression and injustice. It is too much to hope that either President Bush or Attorney General Ashcroft will ever read this serious, academically sound and revelatory work, but anyone who wants to ...