Chapter Thirteen: War, Resistance, Jihad,
and Terrorism
The Robert Kaplan quote is from his article “The Coming Anarchy,”
The
Atlantic, February 1994.
The section on just
war is informed by Garry Wills, “What Is a Just War?” a
book review of Michael Walzer’s
Arguing about War in
The New York Review of
Books 51, no. 18 (November 18, 2004).
The section on rules of conduct in war is informed by John L. Esposito,
“Jihad:
Holy or Unholy War,” in
Understanding Jihad, Deconstructing Jihadism,
Esposito and Glenn, eds. (Washington, DC:
Center for Muslim-Christian
Understanding, 2007).
Robert Fisk’s interview with Usama bin Ladin can be read at
http://www.robert-fisk.com/fisk_interview3.htm
.
The Islamic Research Academy’s statement is here:
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-
Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546644
.
The
fatwa of the twenty-six Saudi scholars is here:
http://www.globalterroralert.com/saudifatwairaq.pdf
.
Some of the statistics on suicide bombings are from Robin Wright’s “Since
2001, a Dramatic Increase in Suicide Bombings,”
Washington Post, April 18,
2008.
