Murawiec

[Laurent Murawiec, The Mind of Jihad (2008), pp. 297 – 8].

Iraq 2010

[Laurent Murawiec, The Mind of Jihad (2008), pp. 297 – 8].

Orphaned Victory 2008

[Laurent Murawiec, The Mind of Jihad (2008), pp. 297 – 8].

Stromata Blog: 2008

Murawiec, who was invited to give the briefing to the Defense Policy Board by Richard Perle, asserted that The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader….

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

On July 10, 2002, an incendiary Pentagon briefing, by Rand Corporation analyst Laurent Murawiec, even characterized Saudi Arabia as “a kernel of evil, the prime mover, the most dangerous opponent” of the United States.

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

Murawiec, who was invited to give the briefing to the Defense Policy Board by Richard Perle, asserted that The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader….

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

On July 10, 2002, an incendiary Pentagon briefing, by Rand Corporation analyst Laurent Murawiec, even characterized Saudi Arabia as “a kernel of evil, the prime mover, the most dangerous opponent” of the United States.

House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

For that matter, why does Murawiec insist on examining jihad (ists) through Christian paradigms and precedents, when Islam itself affords plenty of both -- and centuries before the Millenarian movement?

Jihad Watch 2009

Murawiec is no apologist; neither, however, is he interested in examining Islam's own peculiar Weltanschauung -- as outlined by the Koran and hadith, articulated by the ulema (theologian-scholars), and codified in sharia law -- in order to better understand the jihad.

Jihad Watch 2009

Again, while these are interesting observations and worthy of exploration, Murawiec goes too far: The words "Gnosticism" and "Millenarianism" appear prefixed to Islamic terminology and figures repeatedly; this does not help and can distract -- especially the lay reader who is trying to understand jihad within a strictly Islamic milieu.

Jihad Watch 2009