A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis Prize
Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century. These misinterpretations in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005, contributed fundamentally to the ever-worsening moral and empirical disorientations of our information elites (journalists, academics, pundits). So while journalists reported Palestinian war propaganda as news (lethal journalism), they were also reporting Jihadi war propaganda as news (own-goal war journalism). These radical disorientations have created our current dilemma of pervasive information distrust, deep splits within the voting public in most democracies, the politicization of science, and the inability of Western elites to defend their civilization, and instead, to stand down before an invasion.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Warning to the Reader: If I’m Right, We’re in Deep Trouble
Introduction: Reflections of a Heretical Medievalist
Part One—Selective History of the Disastrous Early Aughts (2000-2003)
1. Al Durah: Spreading a Jihadi Blood Libel (2000)
2. 9-11: Taking the World by Storm (2001)
3. Jenin: Cheering on the Jihadi Suicide Terror (2002)
4. Danoongate: The Muslim Street Extends Dar al Islam (2005-6)
Part Two: Key Players
5. The Premodern Mindset―Zero-Sum Honor
6. Caliphators: A Fifteenth-Century Millennial Movement
7. Liberal Cognitive Egocentrics and Their Demopathic Kryptonite
8. The Global Progressive Left (GPL) in the Twenty-First Century
9. Compliant, Lethal, Own-Goal War Journalism: The Bane of the West in the Twenty-First Century
10. Anti-Zionist Jews: The Pathologies of Self-Criticism
Part Three: Are We Really Going to Let This Happen (Again)?
11. 2000: The Launch of Global Jihad
12. Y2KMind: Oxymoronic Progressives
13. Preemptive Dhimmitude: Unwitting Submission
14. Woke Jihad: Contact Apocalyptic Highs
15. To Sound Minds: On Our Watch?
Glossary for Understanding Caliphator Cogwar in the Twenty-First Century
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Professor Richard Landes was trained as a medievalist and taught in the Boston University History Department. He is now an independent historian living in Jerusalem. His work focuses on apocalyptic beliefs at the the turn of the first millennium (the Peace of God) and the second millennium (Global Jihad, Woke).
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