Elizabeth McAlister

Resistance and Contemplation

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Some of us feel that in its war on terrorism our nation has become a monster, its deadly and duplicitous actions imitating and imitated by those whom it names 'terrorists.' Some of us are haunted by the spectre of institutions of domination — the CIA, NSA, WTO, IMF, the World Bank, the Pentagon — institutions that enable the very crimes they were instituted to preclude. Some of us resist the taxonomy of 'good people' versus 'evil people' and refuse to be terrified on command. Some of us would rather suffer ourselves than be the cause of another's suffering. For all who choose living compassion, binding wounds, and sharing resources so as to deny terror any power over us, The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God is must reading.”