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Danger from unchecked messianism
ATUL ANEJA
| Ahmad's focus is on the re-emergence of messianism, palpable in the three Abrahamic religions |
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM AT WAR - The Clash of Messianic Militarisms: Talmiz Ahmad; Akar Books, 28 E Pocket IV, Mayur Vihar Phase I, Delhi-110091. Rs. 1250.
The attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 and the furious backlash, in the form of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), have generated a torrent of literature on the the mind-boggling violence across the globe. The collapse of the twin towers in New York and the targeting of the Pentagon on 9/11 were swiftly followed by massive retaliatory strikes on Afghanistan, the home of the al-Qaeda, widely seen as the architect behind the attacks. The Afghan campaign was followed by the far more controversial U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The violence in Afghanistan and Iraq was accompanied by fresh attacks in the Palestinian territories, which Israel, a key ally of the U.S. in West Asia, sought to posit as an extension of the GWOT.
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