America & Islam: Soundbites, Suicide Bombs and the Road to Donald Trump
Autor Dr Lawrence Pintaken Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2025
Donald Trump's weaponization of Islamophobia in his first campaign for U.S. president shocked the world. Yet his promise to end the Gaza war rallied many American Muslims to his side in the 2024 election. Here, acclaimed journalist Lawrence Pintak argues that Trump is a symptom of America's fractious and contradictory relationship with Islam that stretches back centuries.
Featuring unique interviews with victims and perpetrators of Trump's policies, as well as analysis of the media's role in inflaming debate, America & Islam provides a complete guide to the twin challenges of terrorism and the polarizing rhetoric that fuels it, sketching out a future based on co-operation and the reassertion of democratic values.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350556362
ISBN-10: 135055636X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 138 x 212 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 135055636X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 138 x 212 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Table of Contents
Reviews
Author's Note
Preface to the New Edition
About the Author
Introduction
Section I: Politics - The Muslim Bogeyman
Chapter 1: Media Codependence
Chapter 2: Prisoners of The Long War
Chapter 3: The American Taliban
Chapter 4: Cogitative Dissonance
Chapter 5: The Morning After
Section II: (Mis)Perceptions - Separating Fact from Fiction
Chapter 6: Not All Islamists Want Your Head
Chapter 7: The Myth of the Muslim Monolith
Chapter 8: How the West Created Radical Islam
Chapter 9: The Islamic States of America
Section III: Policies - Seeing Black & White in a Sea of Gray
Chapter 10: Brotherhood of the Orb
Chapter 11: The Wahhabi Project
Chapter 12: Tempest in the Gulf
Chapter 13: Between Iran and a Hard Place
Chapter 14: Return of the Ottomans
Section IV: Prospects - Islam Beyond Trump
Chapter 15: The Prince
Chapter 16: The Americanization of Islam
Chapter 17: Voices of Reason
Chapter 18: Islam UnTrumped
Chapter 19 Deals
Chapter 20. Enter Joe Biden
Chapter 21. Abandon Harris
Chapter 22. He's Baaack
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
Author's Note
Preface to the New Edition
About the Author
Introduction
Section I: Politics - The Muslim Bogeyman
Chapter 1: Media Codependence
Chapter 2: Prisoners of The Long War
Chapter 3: The American Taliban
Chapter 4: Cogitative Dissonance
Chapter 5: The Morning After
Section II: (Mis)Perceptions - Separating Fact from Fiction
Chapter 6: Not All Islamists Want Your Head
Chapter 7: The Myth of the Muslim Monolith
Chapter 8: How the West Created Radical Islam
Chapter 9: The Islamic States of America
Section III: Policies - Seeing Black & White in a Sea of Gray
Chapter 10: Brotherhood of the Orb
Chapter 11: The Wahhabi Project
Chapter 12: Tempest in the Gulf
Chapter 13: Between Iran and a Hard Place
Chapter 14: Return of the Ottomans
Section IV: Prospects - Islam Beyond Trump
Chapter 15: The Prince
Chapter 16: The Americanization of Islam
Chapter 17: Voices of Reason
Chapter 18: Islam UnTrumped
Chapter 19 Deals
Chapter 20. Enter Joe Biden
Chapter 21. Abandon Harris
Chapter 22. He's Baaack
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Insightful, well-written, challenging. Pintak is both a globe-trotting journalist and a distinguished scholar. He's not afraid to challenge assumptions, group-think, and the powerful.
Lawrence Pintak's America & Islam provides a valuable roadmap to what he calls 'the dark side' of America's long relationship with the world of Islam. It provides rare access to an impressive range of Muslim voices, while addressing one of the central questions of the American experience: How did we get where we are today? We ignore Pintak's findings at our peril.
In America and Islam, Lawrence Pintak presents a clear-eyed view of the fraught relationship between America and the Muslim world. Numerous American politicians seem eager to make enemies of the global Islamic community, relying on ignorance and mendacity to make their case. Pintak relies instead on the facts and first-hand reporting essential to understanding the realities of Islam. This is a timely and valuable book.
In this thoughtful and well researched book, Pintak takes a close look at why a deep misunderstanding of Islam still persists in America. The result is an honest, fair, clear and timely appraisal in which Pintak deftly avoids the temptation to simplify or patronize the complex dynamics at play in Islam today.
In this well-timed intervention, Pintak draws on decades of experience to deliver a sharply observed, critical tour of America's problematic political debate about Islam. Expertly tracing the passage of extreme views of Islam from the margins to Trump's White House, America & Islam offers an important guide for the media, politicians and the public.
For many years, Larry Pintak has used his unique blend of scholarly exactitude, deep area knowledge and the accessibility and clarity of a seasoned foreign correspondent to illuminate the bewildering array of events that cascade from the broader Middle East. Now, he broadens his aperture to view the interaction between the United States and Islam. His unblinking focus on open bigotry toward almost two billion people and the distortion of the religion they follow will not make you comfortable. But it may make you understand that words count and that the current poisoned discourse is doing grave damage to international security and our own social fabric. America has a long history of adopting morally wrong and strategically dangerous policies, and then correcting course. Pintak shines light on the dangers and then shows a way forward. May we be wise enough to take it.
This is an impressive and must-read treatise debunking Trump's racist and Islamophobic politics. Building upon a deep, decades-long knowledge of American and Middle Eastern affairs, and far from being apologetic, Pintak dismantles America's Far-Right destructive narratives on Muslims and Islam in the U.S. and abroad, and brings back sanity to a volatile debate.
Lawrence Pintak's America & Islam provides a valuable roadmap to what he calls 'the dark side' of America's long relationship with the world of Islam. It provides rare access to an impressive range of Muslim voices, while addressing one of the central questions of the American experience: How did we get where we are today? We ignore Pintak's findings at our peril.
In America and Islam, Lawrence Pintak presents a clear-eyed view of the fraught relationship between America and the Muslim world. Numerous American politicians seem eager to make enemies of the global Islamic community, relying on ignorance and mendacity to make their case. Pintak relies instead on the facts and first-hand reporting essential to understanding the realities of Islam. This is a timely and valuable book.
In this thoughtful and well researched book, Pintak takes a close look at why a deep misunderstanding of Islam still persists in America. The result is an honest, fair, clear and timely appraisal in which Pintak deftly avoids the temptation to simplify or patronize the complex dynamics at play in Islam today.
In this well-timed intervention, Pintak draws on decades of experience to deliver a sharply observed, critical tour of America's problematic political debate about Islam. Expertly tracing the passage of extreme views of Islam from the margins to Trump's White House, America & Islam offers an important guide for the media, politicians and the public.
For many years, Larry Pintak has used his unique blend of scholarly exactitude, deep area knowledge and the accessibility and clarity of a seasoned foreign correspondent to illuminate the bewildering array of events that cascade from the broader Middle East. Now, he broadens his aperture to view the interaction between the United States and Islam. His unblinking focus on open bigotry toward almost two billion people and the distortion of the religion they follow will not make you comfortable. But it may make you understand that words count and that the current poisoned discourse is doing grave damage to international security and our own social fabric. America has a long history of adopting morally wrong and strategically dangerous policies, and then correcting course. Pintak shines light on the dangers and then shows a way forward. May we be wise enough to take it.
This is an impressive and must-read treatise debunking Trump's racist and Islamophobic politics. Building upon a deep, decades-long knowledge of American and Middle Eastern affairs, and far from being apologetic, Pintak dismantles America's Far-Right destructive narratives on Muslims and Islam in the U.S. and abroad, and brings back sanity to a volatile debate.