How to Win a Cosmic War

<p>*<b>Why do they hate us?</b> An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world?<br><br>*HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR lays out, for the first time, <b>a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda</b> and the like, a global ideology properly termed Jihadism. <br><br>*Contrasting twenty-first-century religious extremism across Christianity, Judaism and Islam with its <b>historical antecedents</b>, Aslan demonstrates that while modern Jihadis may have legitimate social grievances - the suffering of the Palestinians, American support for Arab dictators, the presence of foreign troops in Muslim lands, to name a few - they have no real goals or actual agenda.<br><br>*<b>So, what do the Jihadists want</b>? Aslan''s answer is: <b>Nothing</b>. The Jihadists have no earthly agenda; they are fighting a metaphysical conflict, a theological war. And ever since 9/11, we have unfortunately been fighting the same cosmic war, the war they want: the so-called ''War on Terror''.<br><br>*<b>How do we win a Cosmic War? By refusing to fight in one.</b> And in this stunning new work, Aslan reveals surprising conclusions about how we can deal with this predicament.</p>