Long before September 11, 2001, Daniel Pipes publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had declared war on Americayet sadly, Americans failed to take heed. The publication ofA singular and alarming insight into ideological Islam and the nurturingat homeof the extremist and terrorist threat.An extraordinarily useful compendium of basic information and analysis...easily readable by the nonspecialist, yet engaging for scholars as well.Blunt and passionate.[Pipes is] an authoritative commentator on the Middle East.Unlike other Middle East experts, Daniel Pipes did not need to reinvent himself or revise his opinions after September 11th.Brilliantly demonstrates how Pipes knows his subject.One of the most far-reaching examinations of militant Islam written to date.