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A cosmic battle is a religious war. It really is a struggle not between armies or nations, but between the pushes of good and wicked, a war in which God is thought to be directly engaged with respect to one side resistant to the other.
The hijackers who attacked the United States on Sept 11, 2001, thought they were struggling with a cosmic battle. Matching to award-winning copy writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan, by infusing the United States Conflict on Terror with the same kind of religiously polarizing rhetoric and Manichean worldview, is also struggling with a cosmic battle–a battle that can’t be triumphed in.
How to Win a Cosmic Conflict 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 landscape from Israel to Iraq and from New York to the Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a better drive today than it has been in a century. At a time when religion and politics are progressively writing the same vocabulary and performing in the same sphere, Aslan creates that we must remove the conflicts of the world–specifically, the Conflict on Terror–of the religious connotations and addresses the earthly grievances that always rest behind the cosmic impulse.
How can you gain a cosmic battle? By refusing to struggle in one.
