Religious War and the Middle East

• Israeli and Palestinian Conflict Resources for Students and Teachers.
• MiddleEast - "core data and sources with a global perspective"
  • religion and religious links : Israeli and Palestinian issues links
• Middle East - list of links and lesson plans from Awesome Library
• Global Connections: Middle East - PBS - "Putting world events in context"
• Daniel Pipes.org "an authoratative commentator on the Middle East" WSJ
• Surf Report on the Middle East (March 2003)- collection of sites and links

Magazines

• Lewis, Bernard. "Revolt of Islam" The New Yorker Nov. 19, 2001, p. 50-63
• Lewis, Bernard, "Roots of Muslim Rage," The Atlantic, Sept. 1990
• "Translation of Letter Left by Hijackers," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 28, 2001.
• Zakaria, Fareed, "The politics of rage: why do they hate us?" Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2001.

type in keywords such as these, for example

• religious war AND Middle East
• Bin Laden AND holy war OR jihad
• terrorism AND Middle East

• ELibrary : magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, TV and radio transcripts, and books (click on newspapers, magazines and TV/Radio ONLY)
  (email Mrs. Cutler for @home passwords)

• Proquest Direct : an online database of over 2100 magazines and newspapers (do an ADVANCED search and modify date to after 9/11)
  (email Mrs. Cutler for @home passwords)

Internet search with Google or Ask Jeeves

• Horrific Acts are not true to the faith of Islam
  from the Center for Middle Eastern studies
  • What the Islamic scriptures really say about jihad and violence from Beliefnet.com
  • Who are the taleban? BBC News
  • Who is Osaman Bin Laden BBC News
• Merger of Mosque and State Newsweek article: one of few clerics in Egypt who insist that the Quran unconditionally bans suicide, even as a tactic in a legitimate holy war.
• Muslim politicians seek to reclaim the voice of Islam: Bin Laden's 'holy war' creates a near impossible task Financial Times 10/10/2001 and Bin Laden calls on Muslim world to join the Holy War Financial Times 10/5/2001
• Muslims against terrorism - list of sites/articles by Awesome Library
• Osama's endgame Time article: Bin Laden-"The holy war will not stop", he said, until the U.S. "desist[s] from aggressive intervention against Muslims in the whole world."
• Religion has a role in Peacemaking Seattle PI article 12/25/2001
• Roots of Jihad: analysis from BBC News
• Target America PBS Frontline
  • Hunting Bin Laden
  • Overview of Islamic Terrorism
• Terrorism - OCLC Hot Topics list of links and topics, Bin Laden, etc.
• Terrorism: Questions and Answers Council on Foreign Relations
  • Causes of 9/11: Muslim Militant Extremists? religious motives?
• Time to break new ground in religious thinking PakistanLink opinion article
• Understanding the enemy Rolling Stone article
• War is a conflict for America's Muslim teens USA Today article

More on the Israel/Arab conflict

• Battle for the Holyland PBS Frontline- from the eyes of those fighting on the ground
• Bitterlemons.com: Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire weekly online journal that presents Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on prominent issues of concern
• In Depth: Israel and Palestines BBC
• Middle East Arab-Israeli Conflict OCLC HotTopics
• Middle East Maelstrom Margaret Warner gets Palestinian and Israeli perspectives on the latest round of violence, and its effect on the peace process 12/14/2001 PBS Online Newshour
• from a listing in Middle East background reports
• Peace and the Middle East: Israel
• Political violence in the Middle East Middle East and Jewish studies, Columbia U - most are links to all the different Terrorist Group Profiles