Shmuel Bar discusses The Strategy of the Jihadi Movement: Ideology and Pragmatics.
This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Fall Retreat 2007.
Bio
Shmuel Bar
Dr. Shmuel Bar is Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya and a founder of IntuView - an Israeli start-up company which is developing artificial intuition tools for real time document exploitation of Arabic language terrorist related documents. His current areas of study include: Jordanian, Syrian and Palestinian affairs, radical Islam and Terrorism, inter-Arab Politics, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Peace Process; Iranian defense doctrine and negotiation behavior.
Peter Berkowitz
Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of law at George Mason University Law School.
His scholarship focuses on the interplay of law, ethics, and politics in modern society. His current research is concerned with the material and moral preconditions of liberal democracy in America and abroad.
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The speaker first starts to talk about the concept of Good and Evil in Islam. Below is an extract from the Quran that can be found anywhere on the internet.
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*{….. If some good befalls them, they say, "This is from Allah.; but if evil, they say, "This is from thee" (O Prophet). Say: "All things are from Allah." But what hath come to these people, that they fail to understand a single fact? Whatever good happens to thee is from God; and whatever evil befalls thee is from thyself…}* (An-Nisaa' 4:78-79)
Allah/G-D created and gave Free Will
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.. An Israeli Mossad agent with a book and a start up company...
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