TY - BOOK N2 - "Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket. AB - "Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--jacket. T1 - Good Muslim, bad Muslim :America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / DA - 2004. CY - New York : AU - Mamdani, Mahmood, ET - 1st ed. CN - E840 CN - E840 PB - Pantheon Books PP - New York : PY - 2004. ID - 283359 KW - Cold War. KW - Islam and politics KW - Terrorism KW - Drug traffic KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 SN - 0375422854 TI - Good Muslim, bad Muslim :America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror / LK - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random047/2003063965.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random047/2003063965.html ER -