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This article compares the roots of the medieval Christian Crusades
and of the modern Islamist jihad. Focusing on the economics
of these two phenomena, the author argues that religion provides a
cohesive and convenient identity for a partnership motivated far more by
economic factors than by religious fervor. The alliance of the papacy,
the nobility, the emerging commercial classes of traders, merchants,
and bankers, and the starving peasants of Europe took shape under the
banner of the First Crusade as a reaction to the economic hegemony of
Islam over the Mediterranean Basin. Similarly, today, religion provides
the ideological ground upon which the emerging Muslim classes of traders,
merchants, and bankers have built a partnership with the religious leaders
and impoverished masses of the Muslim world. This alliance targets the
hegemonic domination of the West, strengthened and supported by corrupt
Muslim elites and governments. Islamist armed groups, like the Franj
knights of the Crusades a thousand years before, are only the vanguard of
a war of economic liberation cleverly disguised as a war of religion.

This article compares the roots of the medieval Christian Crusades & of the modern Islamist jihad. Focusing on the economics of these two phenomena, the author argues that religion provides a cohesive & convenient identity for a partnership motivated far more by economic factors than by religious fervor. The alliance of the papacy, the nobility, the emerging commercial classes of traders, merchants, & bankers, & the starving peasants of Europe took shape under the banner of the First Crusade as a reaction to the economic hegemony of Islam over the Mediterranean Basin. Similarly, today, religion provides the ideological ground upon which the emerging Muslim classes of traders, merchants, & bankers have built a partnership with the religious leaders & impoverished masses of the Muslim world. This alliance targets the hegemonic domination of the West, strengthened & supported by corrupt Muslim elites & governments. Islamist armed groups, like the Franj knights of the Crusades a thousand years before, are only the vanguard of a war of economic liberation cleverly disguised as a war of religion. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue: Depressions in Progress -- Part One: Globalization and Communism -- 1. Exploitation Factories: Charles Dickens in Shenzhen -- 2. The Race to the Bottom -- 3. Chinese Nouvelle Cuisine: Marxism in a Neoliberal Sauce -- 4. Beyond the Great Wall -- 5. The Neoliberal Dream of Modernization -- Part Two: Globalization and Capitalism -- 6. The World Is Flat -- 7. Financial Neoliberalism as Predator -- 8. In Union There Is Strength -- 9. From Muhammad to Confucius -- 10. The Great Wall of Renewable Energy -- Part Three: Globalization and Democracy: A Shotgun Wedding -- 11. Looking at Washington and Beijing through Chinese Eyes -- 12. Late Imperial Spin: Osama bin Laden as the Modern Attila -- 13. Saboteurs of the Nation-State -- 14. Supply-Side Economics -- 15. The Full Monty -- 16. Mediacracy -- 17. The Thousand Evitas of Berlusconi -- Part Four: Images of the Future -- 18. Scenes from a Marriage -- 19. The Last Frontier -- 20. Globalization and Crime -- 21. Rousseau in Chinese Characters -- Epilogue: China Hands -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- About the Author -- About Seven Stories Press.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM AND THE RESPONSE -- 1. The Political Economy of Terrorism Financing -- 2. Terrorism Financing Mechanisms and Policy Dilemmas -- 3. Organized Crime and Terrorism -- 4. Terrorist Organizations' Vulnerabilities and Inefficiencies: A Rational Choice Perspective -- 5. Warning Indicators and Terrorist Finances -- PART II: CASE STUDIES OF TERRORISM FINANCING AND STATE RESPONSES -- 6. Financing Afghan Terrorism: Thugs, Drugs, and Creative Movements of Money -- 7. Al Qaeda Finances and Funding to Affiliated Groups -- 8. Hezbollah Finances: Funding the Party of God -- 9. Arab Government Responses to the Threat of Terrorist Financing -- 10. Terrorism Financing in Europe -- 11. Terrorist Financing and Government Responses in East Africa -- 12. Terrorist Financing and Government Responses in Southeast Asia -- 13. Terrorist Financing and the Tri-Border Area of South America: The Challenge of Effective Governmental Response in a Permissive Environment -- 14. Anti-Terror Strategy, The 9/11 Commission Report, and Terrorism Financing: Implications for U.S. Policy Makers -- 15. U.S. and International Responses to Terrorist Financing -- 16. Terrorist Financing: Explaining Government Responses -- Notes -- Index