Title: An Alarmist spins a mythic web of global conspiracy
Product review: The research seems thorough; the protagonists are evil enough; and the American victim is unsuspecting and unprepared. Yet, Bodansky's web of global conspiracy hinges on untested assumptions and unverified claims stitched together by an Islamic-phobia that belongs in a previous century. Bodansky shows his analytical weakness by lumping together every so-called Islamist from the Maghreb to Mindanao in a mythical anti-Western crusade. Bodansky falls within a long line of so-called policy analysts who have invented the clash of civilizations thesis by promoting fear and demonizing the other. Osama Bin Laden is a terrorist, yet he is hardly the face nor mastermind of a world wide Islamist militant movement. He is an extremist, isolated by his theological and violent beliefs, with marginal support among the mainstream Muslim intelligentsia, professional groups, and working classes, dangerous to the West and the Muslim world equally.
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