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Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam
Are the United States and their Saudi allies sponsoring and financing the radical Islamists? Labeviere uncovers the money-laundering, organized crime, and the interlocking world of business and politics. The central nerve of Islam, he states, is not religion -- it is money...
408 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 2000
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September 7, 2010One of the many books to be mocked by Laurent Murawiec's
Spring 2000 essay in Middle East Quarterly "The Wacky World of French Intellectuals," Labeviere's book thus far has been surprisingly non-troversial.
His argument contains less of what Murawiec characterizes as "the inherent implausibility of viewing a movement engaged in a sustained attack on Americans as a diabolical U.S. plot," than what can only be read as a frank acknowledgment that U.S. foreign policy is a muddled affair, short-sighted in many instances because information gathering has been outsourced to businessmen operating abroad. Labeviere is vehement is pointing out that he's describing less a "plot" and more the natural course of a foreign policy that, first and foremost, focuses blindly on securing a foothold in emerging foreign markets.
However, the French/English translation is unfortunately poor and suffers too frequently from typos, and to make matters slightly harder much of the material is direct reporting (the author is a French-Swiss television and radio journalist), which means fact-checking some of his statements isn't easy.
Alleged terrorist finacier Youssef Nada really doesn't like him, which is both interesting and at the moment totally inconclusive:
http://www.youssefnada.ch/Who%20is%20...
As derided as the term "Islamo-fascist" is by level-headed members of the progressive media, I really think it gets at the far right, paternalistic corporate state these radicals hope to fashion. The obvious theocratic elements seem to obscure this pro-business element of their ideology. There's also the "German Far Right / Radical Islam" overlap evidenced in financiers like Ahmed Huber whose life story has to be read to be believed.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0146...
Or, I am a conspiracy theorist, don't know what I'm talking about and should shut up.
Spring 2000 essay in Middle East Quarterly "The Wacky World of French Intellectuals," Labeviere's book thus far has been surprisingly non-troversial.
His argument contains less of what Murawiec characterizes as "the inherent implausibility of viewing a movement engaged in a sustained attack on Americans as a diabolical U.S. plot," than what can only be read as a frank acknowledgment that U.S. foreign policy is a muddled affair, short-sighted in many instances because information gathering has been outsourced to businessmen operating abroad. Labeviere is vehement is pointing out that he's describing less a "plot" and more the natural course of a foreign policy that, first and foremost, focuses blindly on securing a foothold in emerging foreign markets.
However, the French/English translation is unfortunately poor and suffers too frequently from typos, and to make matters slightly harder much of the material is direct reporting (the author is a French-Swiss television and radio journalist), which means fact-checking some of his statements isn't easy.
Alleged terrorist finacier Youssef Nada really doesn't like him, which is both interesting and at the moment totally inconclusive:
http://www.youssefnada.ch/Who%20is%20...
As derided as the term "Islamo-fascist" is by level-headed members of the progressive media, I really think it gets at the far right, paternalistic corporate state these radicals hope to fashion. The obvious theocratic elements seem to obscure this pro-business element of their ideology. There's also the "German Far Right / Radical Islam" overlap evidenced in financiers like Ahmed Huber whose life story has to be read to be believed.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0146...
Or, I am a conspiracy theorist, don't know what I'm talking about and should shut up.
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