Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson, and Jesus Are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World

by Joel C. Rosenberg

Overview

The New York Times best seller Inside the Revolution takes you inside the winner-take-all battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the people of the Middle East. It includes never-before-seen profiles of the Radicals, the Reformers, and the Revivalists. It explains the implications of each movement and the importance of each leader, not only through the lenses of politics and economics, but through the third lens of Scripture as well. Today, wars and revolutions define the modern Middle East, and many believe the worst is yet to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781414363981
Publisher:	Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date:	03/04/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Joel C. Rosenberg is the New York Times best-selling author of The Last Jihad, The Last Days, The Ezekiel Option, The Copper Scroll, and Epicenter, with 1.5 million copies in print. A communications strategist based in Washington, D.C., he has worked with some of the world’s most influential and provocative leaders, including Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, former Israeli deputy prime minister Natan Sharansky, and former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Once a political columnist for World magazine, he now writes commentaries for National Review as well as a weekly e-mail update known as “Flash Traffic” for business and political leaders. A front-page Sunday New York Times profile called him a “force in the capital.” He has also been profiled by the Washington Times and the Jerusalem Post and has been interviewed on ABC’s Nightline, CNN Headline News, FOX News Channel, The History Channel, MSNBC, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and The Sean Hannity Show.

Table of Contents

Note to Readers IX

Introduction: Not "If" but "When" XI

Part 1 the Radicals

Chapter 01 Worst-Case Scenario 3

Chapter 02 "Islam Is the Answer; Jihad Is the Way" 21

Chapter 03 The Theology of the Radicals 39

Chapter 04 "We Were Asleep" 53

Chapter 05 Tragedy at Desert One 71

Chapter 06 "We Must Export Our Revolution" 83

Chapter 07 Christmas in Kabul 97

Chapter 08 Declaring War on America 111

Chapter 09 Unleashing the Islamic Bomb 121

Chapter 10 Terror High 133

Chapter 11 Revolution 2.0 153

Chapter 12 Making Way for the Mahdi 171

Chapter 13 The Road Ahead 193

Part 2 the Reformers

Chapter 14 "Islam Is the Answer, but Jihad Is Not the Way" 215

Chapter 15 The Theology of the Reformers 227

Chapter 16 The Defector 237

Chapter 17 Meet Hamid Karzai 253

Chapter 18 Karzai's Mission 265

Chapter 19 "We Are Fighting Islamic Fascists" 277

Chapter 20 Meet Jalal Talabani 295

Chapter 21 Talabani's Test 311

Chapter 22 The King and I 331

Chapter 23 The Moroccan Model 341

Part 3 the Revivalists

Chapter 24 "Islam Is Not the Answer, and Jihad Is Not the Way; Jesus Is the Way" 363

Chapter 25 The Big, Untold Story-Part One 379

Chapter 26 The Big, Untold Story-Part Two 389

Chapter 27 The Air War 407

Chapter 28 The Ground War-Part One 425

Chapter 29 The Ground War-Part Two 437

Chapter 30 The Theology of the Revivalists 451

Chapter 31 Making Way for the Messiah 471

Chapter 32 Join the Revolution 489

Appendix 20 Terror Plots against America Foiled since 9/11 511

Endnotes 515

Index 539

Acknowledgments 542

Recommended Reading 547

Editorial Reviews

According to Joel C. Rosenberg, spiritual, religious, and political battles are taking place all over the Middle East. In Inside the Revolution, he explains how jihadists, Jeffersonian Muslim leaders, and Christian sympathizers are vying for supremacy and/or breathing space. A Christian fundamentalist view of a bubbling global hotspot.

Known best for his fiction centered in the Middle East and based in Christian end times beliefs, Rosenberg's nonfiction behemoth will be a bestseller among evangelicals. Rigorous research, travel and interviews with hundreds of Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders lends credibility to this survey of the spectrum of beliefs that drive foreign policy in nations such as Iran, on which the book focuses. Rosenberg divides Muslims into three types. Radical Islamists will stop at nothing short of dominating the world or destroying those who believe otherwise. Reformers believe radical Muslims have hijacked peaceful Islam for their own power-hungry and violent ends. Revivalists are Muslims or those living in predominantly Muslim countries who believe Islam is not the answer but that Jesus is the way. Rosenberg challenges Islamic eschatology without adequately comparing parallel Christian views. On the other hand, he is one of a few evangelicals who will put quotes from the Qur'an in context, has traveled widely and interviewed global leaders. This is one of the best primers for evangelical Christians to understand political Islam in the Middle East. (Mar. 10)

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