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How to Win a Cosmic War
Reza Aslan
God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Random House
May 2009
On Sale: April 21, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1400066727
EAN: 9781400066728
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between
armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil,
a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on
behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked the United States on September
11, 2001, thought they were fighting a cosmic war. According
to award-winning writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan,
by infusing the United States War on Terror with the same
kind of religiously polarizing rhetoric and Manichean
worldview, is also fighting a cosmic war–a war that can’t be
won. How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the
ideology fueling al-Qa‘ida, the Taliban, and like-minded
militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of
religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Surveying the global scene from Israel to Iraq and from New
York to the Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a
stronger force today than it has been in a century. At a
time when religion and politics are increasingly sharing the
same vocabulary and functioning in the same sphere, Aslan
writes that we must strip the conflicts of our world–in
particular, the War on Terror–of their religious
connotations and address the earthly grievances that always
lie behind the cosmic impulse. How do you win a cosmic war? By refusing to fight in one.
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