Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists (70 page)

Wahhabis, 84, 88–89, 102, 493n 8, 497n 15

Islamic Conflict Studies Bureau, 277

Islamic Cultural Center (M-30 Mosque), Madrid, 175, 177–78, 179, 180, 271

Islamic Jihad, 332, 341–44

Ismail,
134

Israel

Ashdod port bombing, 24–25, 48

Balfour declaration, 85

Camp David summit (2000), 390

Dimona attack, 405–10

Erez Crossing, Gaza,
353

ethics and war, 367

facts about suicide attacks, 358–62

Gaza attack (2009), 370, 373

ha-aretz
(the Land) as sacred, 383

Hamas crackdown, 25, 370–71

humiliation of Palestinians, 357–58

ideology, 371–72

kibbutzim, 449–50

1948 War, 378, 388–89, 390, 391

nuclear program, 405

Palestinian conflict, 351–72, 353, 359,
374,
518n 1

peace and, 351–52, 366–79

political parties, 371

Sabbath observance dispute, 383

sacred values, 375–79, 383

Six-Day War, 89

studies on moral imperative for terrorism, 341–44

Jabaliyah Refugee Camp, Gaza, 24, 48, 352–56

Jabir, 150, 157

Jaelani, Syaifudin, 165, 166, 167

Jaish-e-Mohammed, 275

Jakarta hotel bombings, 135, 151, 152, 164, 165–66

Jalaluddin, 253

Jama’at-e-Islami, 227

Jamaica, 415

James, Levin Lamar, 280–82

Janseen, Dirk, 325

Japan, 391, 392

Jarrah, Ziad, 106, 107, 108

Jefferson, Thomas, 76, 424, 466, 470

Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), 115, 126–27, 236, 501n 12

Afghan Alumni training class and bombings, 156–58

Al Qaeda and, 155–56, 158, 159–62

Australian embassy bombing (2004), 149–50, 152, 157, 164, 165

Ba’asyir and, 14, 18, 117, 119–20, 140–41, 143, 153–54

Bali bombing (2002), 135–54

Bali bombing (2005), 150, 152

Christmas Eve bombings (2000), 143, 145–46, 156, 161

criminal activity to raise funds, 151

Darul Islam and, 122, 139–43

disaffected group, 152

formal structure (PUPJI), 142, 162

founder (Sungkar), 3, 122, 140–43

ideology, 141–42

Lukman Al Hakiem
pesantren,
145, 148, 158, 159, 163

madrassahs, 122, 140, 144, 163, 166, 308, 418

Mantiqi commands, 136, 142–43, 159

as network of friends, marriage ties, family, and mentorships, 162–67

Noordin Top and, 135

passive infrastructure, 166

splintering after arrests, 151–52

suicide bombing campaign and, 151

training camps, 11–12, 118, 123, 159

Jesus of Nazareth, 457

Jews, 9, 46, 69, 73, 84, 85

Abraham’s sacrifice and, 432, 454–55

American white supremacists on, 15

ancient, 304, 320–21, 452–53

anti-Semitism, 107, 196, 365, 387, 498n 1

author’s “switched at birth” question, 14–15, 360

Christian massacre of, 72

Diaspora, 92

German apology to, 389–90

Holocaust survivors’ visit to Majdanek death camp, 395

jihad against, 104, 295

monotheism and, 38, 78, 92

9/11 terrorist attacks aimed at, 107

revolt against the Romans, 91–92

Samson and, 91, 92

Zealots and Sicarri, 91–92, 96, 455

jihad, xii, 10, 35, 79, 83, 114, 235, 406–10.
See also
terrorism

Betawi interview, 351–52

the Cause and, 33, 129, 482

communism’s demise and rise of, 98

costs of attacks, 206–7

counterculture of extremism and, 276

culture of, 26–27

as egalitarian network, 50, 268, 482

financing of, 207, 208, 211

fiqh al-jihad
(way of), 128–29

global, 42, 108, 159, 164, 176, 236, 473

“going Afghan,” 187, 214

Ibn Taymiyah, Qutb, and, 83

leaderless, 57, 112, 277, 473

meaning of/reframing of, 383–84

moral appeal, 42, 472

motivation for, 35, 114, 340

as network of friends, marriage ties, family, and mentorships, xii, 12–13, 27, 35, 50, 56–57, 114, 124, 146, 147, 149, 150, 162–67, 178–83, 209–10, 236, 290, 310, 406–10, 479

overreacting to, danger of, 455

prisoners as jihadi, 280

profile of jihadi, 36, 50, 106–7, 112–13, 114, 115, 172, 290, 325

re-Arabization and, 84

religion and, 417–19, 458

religious utopia sought, 100

road to radicalization, 178–79, 196, 206, 213, 275–76, 426

as Sixth Pillar of Islam, 384

Takfiri way, 384 (see
also
Takfiri)

as team and blood sport, 328

three waves of, 112–15, 261

types of groups in, 35–36

understanding, 42–43

ways to move from violence, 131–32

women and, 328

youth culture and, 474, 482

Zawahiri and, 101

Jinnah, Muhammad Ali, 250

John Paul II, Pope, 422

Johor Wakalah, 145

Jones, Reginald, 339–40

Jones, Sidney, 166

Jordan, 84–85

Jordanian Brotherhood, 89

Joseph, Craig, 458–59

Junaedi, 148

Kalaji, Maussili, 176, 180, 199

Kameradschaft
(Kühne), 336–37

Kandai, Ahmad, 124

Karnavian, Tito, 131, 155

Kartosoewirjo, S. M., 122, 137, 138, 139

Karzai, Hamid, 253, 264

Kasab, Ajmal Amir, 505n 9

Kastari,
134

Keeler, Lawrence, 328–29

Kennedy, John F., 28–30, 31, 97

Kennedy, Robert F., 28–29, 485

Kenya U.S. embassy bombing, 257

Kerry, John, 519n 7

Khan, Abdul Qadeer, 231, 506n 11

Khan, Mohammad Sidique, 1, 272

Khouri, Rami, 388

Khyam, Omar, 272

Kierkegaard, Søren, 432

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 471

Kipling, Rudyard, 225

Kompak, 15, 118, 126–27, 150, 152

Koran, 17, 18, 19, 80, 81, 84, 115, 121, 132, 177, 179, 182, 200, 235, 418, 441, 442, 472, 474, 483

Al-Tauba 111, 351, 370

basis for behavior and sanctions, 103, 129, 153, 183, 351, 370 42:11, 77

Korean War, 334, 414

Kosovo, Albania, 111

Kounjaa’, Abdennabi (the Afghan),
188,
189–91, 198, 202, 214, 218, 486

Kublai Khan, 494n 5

Kühne, Thomas, 336–37

!Kung, 451

LaHaye, Tim, 473

Lakota Sioux, 395

Lamari, Allekama, 203, 503n 3

Lashkar-e-Tayibah (LeT), 228–29, 231–36, 271, 418

Jamaat-ud-Dawa and, 235

Mumbai attacks, 233–36, 273, 505n 9

terrorist training camps, 505n 9

laskar
(army), 8, 18, 19

Laskar Jihad, 17

Lawrence, T. E., 85

Leaderless Jihad
(Sageman), 112

“Leaderless Resistance” (Beam), 473

Lebanon, 370, 388

Hamas in, 406, 497n 15

suicide bombers in, 412

Lee, Robert E., 319

Left Behind
(LaHaye), 473

LeMay, Curtis, 31

Lenin, 385

Letter to a Christian Nation
(Harris), 413

Leviathan
(Hobbes), 318

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 7, 66

Lewis, Bernard, 86

Lewis, C. S., 419

Life of Reason, The
(Santayana), 318

Lifton, Robert, 288

Lincoln, Abraham, xi, 386, 479, 480, 486

Lipset, Seymour, 463

Little Prince, The
(Saint-Exupéry), 330–31

Livni, Tzipi, 371, 519n 6

London Underground bombing, 1, 261, 269, 270, 272, 273, 482

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 372

Looming Tower, The
(Wright), 130

Lorenz, Konrad, 309

Louis XIV of France, 75

Lukman Al Hakiem
pesantren,
145, 148, 158, 159, 163

Luther, Martin, 74–75

MacArthur, Arthur, 95

MacArthur, Douglas, 95

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 314–15

madrassahs.
See also specific schools

clerics in Afghanistan and, 252

Indonesia, 308, 379, 502n 14

JI, 122, 140, 144, 163, 166, 308, 418

9/11 terrorists and, 418

Pakistan, 164, 235, 418

spread of terrorism, 162–63, 235, 418

study of Indonesian, 308, 379

Takfiri ideology and, 163–64

Madrid Connection, The
(Webster), 503n 3

Madrid train bombings, 168–210, 482, 503n 3

Al Qaeda and, 172–74, 180–81, 195, 201, 205, 503n 3

casualties, 199–200

the Chinaman, 50, 54, 183–93,
183,
196–98

the Connector, the Rabbit, and three Spanish stooges, 191–93

ETA blamed, 169, 173, 200, 201

financing, 197, 206–7

hatching the plot, 196–201

key players, 270

lack of organizational structure, 195, 204–6, 503n 3

motivation, 261

Operation Datil arrests and, 180

planning and plotters, 174–91, 503n 3

police agent, 176, 180, 199

police informant, 169, 172–73, 181

political repercussions, 173–74, 195, 201

school attended by plotters, viii

small group dynamics and, 48, 49

social networks and, viii, 49, 182,
194

suicides of perpetrators, 171, 201–3

takfiri
and, 36

target suggested by Internet, 195, 196

trial, 168–72, 180–81, 196, 197, 198

the Tunisian, 176–84,
177,
188–91, 195–98, 203

video of Madrid train bomber, 45

Magomadova, Luiza, 327

Mahad Aly school, 164

Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 77

Mahmud, Abdelrahim, 318

Malaysia

Al Qaeda in, 160

jihadi school in, 145, 148, 158, 159

Khaled Sheikh Mohammed visits, 158

Sungkar’s chicken farm, 13, 125, 145

terrorists from, 135, 144, 145

Malraux, André, 403, 475