Part 1 is here. “The Quran is full of references to jihad,” wrote Lawrence Wright in his 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Now that September 11, 2001, the terrorist day of infamy forever known as 9/11, has reached its twenty-fifth anniversary, it is instructive to review jihadist […]
Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Back to the Future with Islam (Part 1)
September 11, 2001, a fateful day that infamously entered history as 9/11, has just marked its twenty-fifth anniversary, an appropriate time to look again at Lawrence Wright’s seminal work, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Among other things, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book written in 2006 offers critical insight into the minds of […]