The Global War on Tribal Islam

Akbar Ahmed comments on the recent debate over the use of drones by the Obama administration.

U.S. Government firepower and its vast anti-terror network have turned the war on terror into a global war on tribal Islam. And too often the victims are innocent children at school, women in their homes, workers simply trying to earn a living, and worshipers in their mosques. Battered by military attacks or drone strikes one day and suicide bombers the next, the tribes bemoan, "Every day is like 9/11 for us."

Akbar Ahmed, professor of Islamic Studies in the School of International Service at American University. Ahmed is also a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution and a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy.
Source: Book TV at American University: Akbar Ahmed, "The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam"

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Source: Living On Earth: Deadly Smog

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Source: NPR: In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don't Matter
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