This is a collection of quotes and testimonials regarding the book "Future Jihad" and the author: Walid Phares

 “Summer Reading” suggested by Zack Wamp (R-Tenn.) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.). Article published in the Hill July 31, 2007

House GOP summer reading is not exactly beach ready

Reps. Zack Wamp (R-Tenn.) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) sent out a joint “dear colleague” letter to their caucus last week with a helpful summer reading list. We don’t want to give away the endings for the six tomes that made the list, but here’s a hint: Don’t expect them to lighten your mood.

The list is largely focused on the history of conflict in the Middle East, and includes Walid Phares’s “Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America” and Dore Gold’s “The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West and the Future of the Holy City.”

AHMADINEJAD AND FUTURE JIHAD by Mario Loyola

The fundamental evil of the Islamist ideology is that if you don't submit to their will, they feel free to commit any crime against you, and then they blame it on you.  We see this when even clerics in London blame cases of rape on the victim's failure to dress properly.  And the failure of the Islamic moderates — and many liberals here at home — is that when you talk about the crime, oftentimes they also blame it on you.

That was my thought for Thursday morning.  Later, I came across the translation of an Ahmadinejad speech broadcast on 20 October, in which he had these nice things to say:

Our proposal [to the supporters of Israel] is as follows: Since you brought this regime over there, you yourselves pick it up, by the arms and legs, and remove it from there.  This will make the peoples of the region improve their attitude towards you.

Comments like this have become so commonplace that most people barely notice them anymore.  But I am now reading for the first time a book I should have read as soon as it came out, and which everyone should read: Future Jihad by Walid Phares.  It is a history of jihad (not the spiritual kind) going back to the dawn of Islam, and it explains how the ideology has produced a strategy for world victory which is advancing from Indonesia to Europe and beyond.  The book is chilling, and from what you come to understand in reading it, comments like Ahmadinejad's most recent speech take on a deeper and much more terrifying meaning.  He is more confident of victory than we are — and it's not because he's stupid. 

•  Rupert Murdoch said that "he had been reading “Future Jihad,” a book by Walid Phares, who warns that foreign jihadis and their American sympathizers are almost certainly mobilizing inside the United States. “These people intend to change civilization, and they are prepared to take a hundred years to do it,” Rupert Murdoch in an interview with John Cassidy for the New Yorker magazine September.16,2006

• "...those on both sides of the U.S. political divide recognize Phares’ grasp of the complexities of global terrorism, particularly as they relate to the complex relationships that have existed in the Middle East for thousands of years."
  W. Thomas Smith, Editor, World Defense Magazine, January 16, 2006
  
  
  
• "Walid Phares understands the mind of the Jihadist world like no one else."
  Ret. Colonel Jack Jacobs, NBC Military Analyst, Lecturer at West Point, and Author of Medal of Honor
  

• "Walid Phares’ precise, ‘pulls no punches’ analysis of an extremely complex and difficult issue should be required reading in the counterterrorism community.
  Col. Rick Francona, Retired Intelligence officer, CNBC Terrorism analyst
  

• "Walid Phares' analysis of the Jihadist strategies is grounded in 25 years of top notch research and investigation. From Beirut, where I met him first, to Washington, he is the real deal in the field."
  Barbara Newman, Former ABC News 20/20 investigative producer and Author of Hizbollah Terrorists on American Soil
  

• "Walid Phares' comprehensive analysis of the Jihadist strategies worldwide is drawn from a deep understanding of the history, language, and geopolitics of the Arab World and the Middle East."
  Mouafac Harb, Director, al Hurra TV
  

• "Walid Phares is a uniquely perceptive expert on radical Islamism, terrorism, and related issues."
  Cliff May, President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
  

• "Walid Phares’ understanding of Jihad’s ideology and history is paramount to project its plans and future. Phares sees Jihadism from the inside, explains its logic and geopolitics like no one else."
  Dr Marius Deeb, Professor of Middle East Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
  

• "Walid Phares is the ultimate ‘connect-the-dots’ analyst. Where others see a blur disconnected facts, he sees a picture, and he is a master at describing what he sees to audiences as diverse as college students, federal courts, and the viewers of CNN. If you want to know who the jihadist enemies of America and the West are, what they are doing and why, and what must be done to defeat them, there is no better guide than Walid Phares."
  Dennis Hale, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College
  

• "Dr. Phares’ comments and analysis are always insightful and provide a cultural ‘insider’s view’ of the Middle East and the global jihad movement."
  Rick Hahn, Former FBI Terrorism expert. MSNBC Counter Terrorism analyst
  

• "Dr. Phares has an unmatched knowledge of the Middle East with its tightly interwoven tapestry of language, religion, history and politics. He can bring an interdisciplinary approach to complex security issues. Unlike so many analysts, he can convey his encyclopedic knowledge of the Middle East in multiple languages."
  Colonel Kenneth Allard, USA (Ret.), Former Dean, National War College and NBC Defense Analyst
  

• "Phares understands the language of Jihadism and analyses Arab Islamic politics authoritatively. He is a leading educator to the public and an eye opener to decision makers. Right on the subject and says it like it is.
  Dr. Jacob Keryakes, NBC Senior Arabic Translator and Linguist
  

• "Dr. Walid Phares is an experienced expert whom the media trusts to provide accurate and timely insights on the nature of jihad and Islamic-based terrorism. His book is a ‘must read’ on the threats we face in the future."
  Andrew Cochran, Founder & Editor, The Counterterrorism Blog
  

• "Walid Phares' academic analysis of the politics of Jihad ideologies and movements and their perception of international relations is unique. His book, Future Jihad, is pioneering in the new field of post 9/11 clash of ideas. His deep understanding and equal of Arab and Western political cultures enables him to tell the story entirely as he frequently does in writing but also on al Jazeera, al Hurra, and the many Western networks such as NBC, CNN, Fox News, CBC, and BBC."
  Dr. Franck Salameh, Professor of Arab Culture, Boston University
  

• "Walid Phares' expert analysis on Jihad terrorism and its future possibilities is unparalleled. His depth and breadth of knowledge on Jihad terrorism and its historical roots is essential to understanding the enemy we face. His arguments that we must know and understand our adversary in order to confront it are extremely convincing. Phares' analysis is fundamental to defeating the Jihadis and their ideology. His book is a must-read for students and policy-makers around the world."
  Stephen Shellman, PhD, Co-Director, Workshop on Teaching about   Terrorism and Professor, College of William and Mary, USA
  

• "Professor Walid Phares’s book Future Jihad is not only welcome but also essential to the lay, official and scholarly communities. Phares has been in the forefront laying bare the harsh realities of Jihadism and Arab geopolitics. Grounded in forthrightness, inquiry and research, his challenging and prescient thoughts compel you to rethink outmoded and conventional concepts and practices. His analysis of radical Islam and Arab geopolitics have been sound and on the mark, exposing the fallacy of widespread assumptions."
  Dr Robert G. Rabil, Professor of Middle East Studies, Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University
  

• "The concept of ‘jihad terrorism’ presented by Dr. Walid Phares puts the West on notice as to the true nature of the enemy and the parameters of what is, essentially, a total war between competing and incompatible worldviews."
  Earl Tilford, Professor of History, Grove City College
  

• "Phares research in the history and rise of Jihadism and its impact on identity crisis and terrorism is three decades old. Phares precursor research in Beirut, Europe and around the world provide a unique comparative depth to his extended work in the US. His understanding of Arab-Islamic ideologies and their variables subgroups is unique."
  Joseph Saouk, researcher, Dept for Middle Eastern studies. Stockholm University
  

• "Walid Phares’s research on Jihadism and its implications on human rights and ethnic conflict in the Greater Middle East and North Africa is leading the field worldwide. Phares was among the very few scholars who warned about the rise of the Terror threat not only since the 1990s in the US, but also as of the mid 1980s from his native Middle East. (2000)"
  Dr Dominic Mohammed, Professor of Education, Florida International University
  

• "Walid Phares is the leading authority on Jihad strategies worldwide."
  John Loftus, former counterterrorism official at the U.S. Justice Department
  

• "Walid Phares is a daring historian. He plays towards the Arab and Muslim world the role of Russian thinker Andrei Amalrik towards the Soviet Union: Speaking the truth.(1981)"
  Dr. Jean Aucagne S.J; Saint Joseph University, Beirut