The Death of Outrage or Jihad and Jew Hatred

The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals

Author: William J Bennett

In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had sex with a young White House intern, to his testimony before the grand jury, to the nation's decision not to remove Clinton from office. Brick by brick, Bennett dismantles the wall of defenses offered by Clinton and his apologists, and casts the clear light of moral reason and common sense on a shameful chapter in American history.

Deborah Tannen

In his new book, Bennett advances his own credo of right and wrong, and it is far less compelling. It is a slim book with a correspondingly slim premise: that the American public's failure to be outraged at President Clinton's lies about his private life is evidence of our 'moral and intellectual disarmament.' -- The Washington Post

Tom Shull

A bold and necessary act of civic courage, one that will be remembered in years to come. —The Detroit News, Opinion Page

New York Times Book Review - Richard L. Berke

. . .[O]ffers few fresh insights into [why voters have] seemed unwilling to punish Clinton for his ethical lapses. . . .It may be premature to pronounce outrage dead. . . .most polls suggested that voters are so furious at Clinton tht they want to put the whole scandal behind them.

A.M. Rosenthal

Read itparticularly if you are sure you won't agree. —The New York TimesOp-Ed Page

A.M. Rosenthal

Read it, particularly if you are sure you won't agree. -- The New York Times, Op-Ed Page

Richard L. Berke

. . .[O]ffers few fresh insights into [why voters have] seemed unwilling to punish Clinton for his ethical lapses. . . .It may be premature to pronounce outrage dead. . . .most polls suggested that voters are so furious at Clinton tht they want to put the whole scandal behind them. -- The New York Times Book Review

Christian Science Monitor

Bennett's skill at crafting an argument makes this a compelling reading experience.

U.S. News & World Report

A piercing commentary.

Tom Shull

A bold and necessary act of civic courage, one that will be remembered in years to come. -- The Detroit News, Opinion Page

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Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots Of 9/11

Author: Matthias Kuentzel

Jihad and Jew-Hatred makes a major contribution to the understanding of radical Islamism by tracing the impact of European fascism on the Arab and Islamic world. Drawing extensively on German-language sources, Matthias Küntzel analyzes the close relationship that began in the 1930s between Nazi leaders and Muslim extremists, especially the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Mufti of Jerusalem. This pathbreaking book provides compelling documentation of the Nazi roots of what became Islamo-fascism and jihadist terror.

This study demonstrates in historical detail how the Muslim Brotherhood has consistently placed the hatred of Jews at the center of its ideology and policies through an incendiary rhetoric that interweavespassages from the Koran hostile to Jews with elements of Nazi-style world-conspiracy theories. Ancient prejudice and modern fantasies have become a deadly combination.

Jihad and Jew-Hatred also explains how the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 led to the shift of the center of global antisemitism to the Arab world, laying the foundation for radical Islamist currents in and around the Muslim Brotherhood and more recent terrorist organizations.

Küntzel convincingly shows that antisemitism is no mere supplementary feature of modern jihadism, and certainly no afterthought but its defining ideological core. This hatred also goes far beyond questions of Zionism and Israel. For Islamism, not only is everything Jewish evil, but every evil is Jewish, as the writings of Sayyid Qutb and the Charter of Hamas clearly explain to anyone willing to read them. It was this Jew-hatred that fueled the Jihad of the 9/11 terrorists.

The New York Times - Jeffrey Goldberg

[Kuntzel's] bracing, even startling, book, Jihad and Jew-Hatred (translated by Colin Meade), reminds us that it is perilous to ignore idiotic ideas if these idiotic ideas are broadly, and fervently, believed…Kuntzel makes a bold and consequential argument: the dissemination of European models of anti-Semitism among Muslims was not haphazard, but an actual project of the Nazi Party, meant to turn Muslims against Jews and Zionism…Kuntzel marshals impressive evidence to back his case, but he sometimes oversimplifies…Still, Kuntzel is right to state that we are witnessing a terrible explosion of anti-Jewish hatred in the Middle East, and he is right to be shocked. His invaluable contribution, in fact, is his capacity to be shocked, by the rhetoric of hate and by its consequences.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Foreword by Jeffrey Herf....................VII Preface....................XIX
Introduction....................1
1. The Muslim Brotherhood and Palestine....................6
The Islamist Vanguard....................8
On the "Art of Death"....................14
Anti-German Boycott....................16
Anti-Jewish Jihad....................20
The Muslim Brothers, the Mufti and the Nazis....................25
The Mufti's Antisemitism....................31
Nashashibis versus Husseinis....................37
The Sanctuary of National Socialism....................43
War against Israel....................48
2. Egyptian Islamism from Nasser to the present day....................61
The Humiliation....................63
Comrade Brother Nasser....................67
Islamism under Sadat....................73
Unity and Submission....................75
Sayyid Qutb....................80
Jihad against the Muslims....................85
Islamization under Mubarak....................91
3. The Jihad of Hamas....................103
Islamist terror in Gaza....................104
The Hamas Charter....................107
El-Husseini and Arafat....................112
Mass Murder as Strategy....................119
4. September 11 and Israel....................123
Bin Laden and the Muslim Brothers....................124
Hatred of America....................128
The Antisemitic Signal....................133
New Alliances....................141
Epilogue: "... the Beginning of Complicity."....................151
Bibliography....................162
Index....................174