BATTLE FOR OUR MINDS: WESTERN ELITES AND THE TERROR THREAT
Book ID/图书代码： 08280012B55905
English Summary/英文概要： After thousands of people were murdered in simultaneous terror attacks on September 11, 2001, the New York Times said the violence came “out of the blue.” Nothing could have been further from the truth.
Arab-Islamic terrorists had been attacking the West for years but the reports were dismissed as the work of “madmen” and, in fact, all the while recruiters and fund-raisers for Arab-Islamic terror were receiving academic and economic sanctuary in some of America’s most esteemed institutions. Had Osama bin Laden been held accountable in 1992, 1996, and 1998, and had his followers been called out, his Al-Qaeda network wouldn’t have become a clarion call for anti-Western terror. Now as new attacks, aborted and otherwise, are carried out from London to Mumbai to New York’s Times Square, Western elites—academia, the media, and government officials—have once again been fueling that same dangerous complacency that is leaving us as vulnerable as before.
In Battle for Our Minds, Michael Widlanski delivers a powerful and sound argument for turning around this willful ignorance, and explains exactly how it can be done: by facing and genuinely understanding the precise motives and mind games behind those who want to destroy us. He names the officials, media pundits, and academics who have hindered the battle against Islamic terror, in turn obstructing a logical fight to stop it. Clearly, a lack of factual accuracy is sabotaging the Western mind, and Widlanski’s anger is justified: Why has an all-out “holy war” been softened into the more liberally acceptable “spiritual struggle”? Why, pre-9/11, were the terrorist threats made in New York City mosques ignored? Why did we go out of our way to give bin Laden a proper burial out of respect to an ideology that erased the World Trade Center? Why is President Barack Obama so hesitant to offend the enemy by calling it what it is: Islamic Extremist Terror? How can we stop it if, out of a weak and outrageous political correctness, we refuse to even recognize it?
Dr. Widlanski lays out a commonsense, no-holds-barred solution to an imperative and increasingly dangerous global dilemma. This is not a witch hunt, nor a temporary Band-Aid, but a comprehensive strategy built around a hard-hitting truth carefully omitted from every liberal media outlet, and downplayed, overlooked, and incorrectly assessed by the FBI, CIA, and the State Department: terrorist “martyrs” want to change the course of history. By convincing them that their acts are futile, the tide turns and we can prevent further acts—and win the battle for our minds.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
911事件導致數千人喪生的同時，《紐約時報》評論說此次暴力事件事出無由。但事情確已發生。
信仰伊斯蘭教的阿拉伯人攻擊西方國家已經不是一年兩年了，而且這絕不是“瘋子的行為”。事實上，為伊斯蘭-阿拉伯恐怖分子招人募資者一直在美國各大機構中得到學術庇護和經濟資助。若有人追究本•拉登在92、96、98年造成的恐怖襲擊，若有人指出他的追隨者，他的基地組織就沒有能力感召反西方恐怖主義。現在恐怖襲擊蔓延到倫敦、孟買和紐約時代廣場，西方的精英們，無論是學術界、媒體還是政府官員，他們的行為又一次告誡我我們，驕傲自大使我們一如既往地脆弱不堪。
在《Battle for Our Minds》中，Michael Widlanski博士給出了漂亮有力的論證，呼籲人們不要再故意輕視敵人，他直面、理解那些想要毀滅我們的恐怖主義的想法，以此來解釋造成這些襲擊的始末。他指出了那些阻礙反伊斯蘭恐怖分子戰鬥的官員、媒體權威和學術專家，他表示這樣不能結束伊斯蘭恐怖襲擊。西方人的頭腦因缺少確切的事實而混亂不堪。
Widlanski博士的憤怒也是情有可原的，純粹的“聖戰”怎麼會退化為普遍能接受的“精神鬥爭”？我們為什麼忽視911之前，發生在紐約城清真寺的恐怖襲擊？我們為什麼要特地安葬本•拉登，是他的思想毀掉了世貿中心，我們為什麼要尊敬他？為什麼奧巴馬總統不願招惹敵人，猶豫不決不願稱其為伊斯蘭極端主義？如果我們以現在過分謹慎軟弱的政治主張，還不願承認對方的危險性，我們要怎麼防止恐怖襲擊再次發生？
Widlanski博士對這個緊急、危險的全球困境給出了一個普遍能理解並適用的解決方法。這不是抓巫婆式的方法，也不是支撐一時的方法、卻是一個全面的策略，而且建立在事實之上，只是這個事實被自由媒體故意忽略了，被聯邦調查局、中央情報局和國務院低估了。這個事實就是那些恐怖主義的殉道者想要改變歷史軌跡。我們只要讓他們明白自己的行為是無用的，恐怖襲擊的潮汐就會褪去，我們就能防止他們襲擊，並贏得我們的思想之戰。(Celia)
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Michael Widlanski博士是阿拉伯政治和交流問題專家，他的博士論文研究的是巴勒斯坦的廣播媒體。他曾經分別在《紐約時報》、《考克斯報紙亞特蘭大憲法》、《耶路撒冷郵報》做過記者和編輯。他是1991-1992巴勒斯坦代表團和平談判的特別顧問，公共安全部的戰略顧問。他還編撰了收藏於耶路撒冷的巴勒斯坦解放組織檔案。
Dr. Michael Widlanski is a specialist in Arab politics and communication whose doctorate dealt with the Palestinian broadcast media. He is a former reporter, correspondent, and editor, respectively, at The New York Times, The Cox Newspapers-Atlanta Constitution, and The Jerusalem Post. He has also served as a special advisor to Israeli delegations to peace talks in 1991-1992 and as Strategic Affairs Advisor to the Ministry of Public Security, editing secret PLO Archives captured in Jerusalem.
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