Boston: Apocalyptic Hopes, Millennial Dreams and Global Jihad

1. Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, “Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy Theory and Apocalyptic Global Jihad”

2. Charles Small, “Ideology and Antisemitism: Random Acts or a Core Element of the Reactionary Islamist Global Jihad?”

3. Richard Landes, BU, “Active Cataclysmic Apocalyptic Scenarios, Demonizing and Megadeath: Taiping, Communists, Nazis, and Jihadis.”

Comments: David Redles, Michael Barkun

12:00-1:30 Break for Lunch

1:30-4:00 Final Panel Discussion

Paul Berman, Independent Scholar

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Independent Scholar

Jessica Stern, Harvard University

Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute

Charles Strozier, John Jay College

Brenda Brasher, Tulane University

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Selected Work

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Read “Those Who Love Death: Islam’s Fatal Focus on the Afterlife” from Heretic (2015) Here

Jeffrey Bale

Read “Islamism and Totalitarianism” (2009) Here

Read “Political Correctness and the Undermining of Counterterrorism” (2013) Here

J.M Berger

Read “The ISIS Twitter Consensus” (2015) Here

Professor Berger’s latest book, coauthored with Jessica Stern, ISIS: State of Terror, can be purchased Here

Paul Berman

Read “Why is the Islamist Death Cult So Appealing?” (2015) Here

Cole Bunzel

Read “From Paper State to Caliphate: The Ideology of the Islamic State” (2015) Here

Medhi Khalaji

Read “Apocalyptic Politics: On the Rationality of Iranian Policy” (2008) Here

Richard Landes

Read “Enraged Millennials” from Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (2011) Here

William McCants

Read “The Sectarian Apocalypse” (2014) Here

Jessica Stern

Read “The Coming Final Battle” from ISIS: State of Terror (2015) Here

Charles Strozier

Professor Strozier’s book, The Fundamentalist Mindset can be purchased Here

Graeme Wood

Read “What ISIS Really Wants” (2015) Here

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