Reddit reviews Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

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Off the top of my mind, specific books they've mentioned that I've enjoyed:
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-Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens

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-Open Letters by Vaclav Havel

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-The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1926-1939 by Antony Beevor

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-So You've Been Publically Shamed by Jon Ronson

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-Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe



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I'll try to remember more and add to it as I can recall them.

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-Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

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-Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick

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-Both Ian Kershaw and Richard Evans' accounts of HItler, Germany, and the Third Reich in WWII

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-Moynihan did a long interview in Vice about Karl Ove Knausgaard, so I would imagine maybe he's a fan

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-Bad Blood by John Carryrou

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-The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

This take might be a little spicy but don't a large percentage of the Muslim community believe in the more radical stuff? Generally, in regards to Christians, they are way past taking the bible literal.

I read the book [Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS] (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Flags-Rise-Joby-Warrick-ebook/dp/B00RRT346E/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DLB8LK490GQT&keywords=black+flags+the+rise+of+isis&qid=1574865998&sprefix=black+flags+%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1), which is a fantastic book, I got the recommendation from a summer reading list of Bill Gates. The actual points are a little blurry but I remember the book saying that in the height of the terrorist attacks taking place in Jordan & Iraq that the goverments, to deter radical terrorists, had to get religious scholars of the Muslim religion to basically re-interpret the Quran so that people wouldn't take the radical parts so literal.

Again, I know there are many Muslims who don't believe the radical stuff but I wouldn't say the people who follow more of the archaic writings are a small group either.