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Painting Islam as the New Enemy: Globalization & Capitalism in Crisis

by Abdulhay Y. Zalloum

423 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0820; ISBN 1-4120-0451-9; US$31.00, C$35.65, EUR25.50, £18.00

The founding fathers' visions of democracy was trasformed into a one dollar, one vote democracy. Wall street and corporations own all the money and thus all the votes. A clash of civilizations is promoted as a scapegoat for capitalism's systemic failure.

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About the Book Find out for yourself! Islam is not the enemy; Are you surprised to know that Islam's God is like yours? Islams's holy book the Qur'an, in verse (2:62) says: "Believers, Jews, Christians and Sabeans - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does what is right - shall be rewarded by their Lord; they have nothing to fear or to regret." Islam preaches universalism, racial equality and social justice. The founding fathers' vision of democracy was trasformed into a one-dollar, one-vote democracy. One-half of one percent of American households owns more than 90 percent of Americans. In such a democracy, Wall street owns all the money and all the votes. The American dream was hijacked in the 19th century by the few, as president Lincoln feared. It was hijacked by Wall Street and corporations, just as president Rutherford B. Hays said: "This is a government of corporations for corporations by corporations". Wall Street and capitalism have elevated materialism and economic growth to the rank of a new religion of the land. Money became the ultimate measure of success. In Wall Street Capitalism, citizens are incidental numbers on balance sheets. Materialism became "a tumor in the soul".

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About the Author

ABDULHAY Y. ZALLOUM had the privledge to live, study and experience life in the two worlds of Islam and the West. His primary schooling was in Jerusalem when it was the capital of Palestine. His undergraduate and graduate studies in Engineering, Business and Advanced Management were done in Texas, Louisiana, California and Massachusetts.

In the United States, he was involved in the project management of the first all-hydrogen petroleum processing technology in the world. He dealt with most of America's multinational oil and engineering companies. He managed the operations of the first Middle East OPEC export refining facilities, and assisted in the organizational development of several Middle Easter OPEC national oil companies. His business assignments gave him extended periods of residence in Europe and some of the former United Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Sample Excerpts and Table of Contents

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - THE IMPERFECT CRIME OF SEPTEMBER ELEVEN
        A Superman Against a Super State!
Chapter 2 - THE NEW WORLD ORDER
        An American Empire
Chapter 3 - THE BOOM OF ILLUSIONS
        The Economics of 'Enronics'
Chapter 4 - "WOE TO THOSE WHO CALL EVIL GOOD"
        Hypocrites Justifying An Immoral War
Chapter 5 - NEOCOLONIALISM THROUGH GLOBALIZATION A System of Deception and Illusion
Chapter 6 - CASINO ECONOMICS AND THE WORLD
        Case Studies
Chapter 7 - CONTROL OF INTERNATIONAL OIL - (1973 - 2002)
        Debt Traps: the New Black Gold Order
Chapter 8 - CONTROL OF INTERNATIONAL OIL - (1855 - 1973)
        From Medicine to Fuel to Strategic Power
Chapter 9 - RUSSIA: FROM COMMUNISM TO CAPITALISM
        And from Superpower State to Super Mafia State
Chapter 10 - FORCING CASINO ECONOMICS ON JAPAN
        Japan After the Cold War
Chapter 11 - THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL
        Through Prophets or Generals?
Chapter 12 - ISRAEL: AN IMPERIAL LEGACY
        Not a Biblical Prophecy
Chapter 13 - AMERICA: FROM A DREAM TO A NIGHTMARE
        Wall Street Acquire Main Street
Chapter 14 - THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
        The New York - London Power Struggle
Chapter 15 - THE RULE OF THE UNELECTED
        Money Power, Not People's Power
Chapter 16 - THE SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF CAPITALISM
        Economically, Socially, Politically and Morally
Chapter 17 - ISLAM AND THE WEST
        Western Capitalism: A Tumor in the Soul
Chapter 18 - THE RELIGION OF ISLAM
        Facts Against Fallacies
Post Script

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PREFACE

I first arrived in the United States some fifty years ago, at age 18, to pursue my higher educatin. To get there I crossed four continents, carried eight different currencies and traveled by air, sea and land. Few days after having obtained my engineering degree, I left the United States. In the early 1980s, while my two sons were studying for their engineering and MBA degrees in Boston, I attended Harvard Graduate School of Business for advanced management studies. Since then, I would visit the United States almost yearly, for education, vacation, business and routine medical checkups. I had several long work assignments in the United States, including participating in the management of the first, and biggest, petroleum all-hydrogen processing technology project in the world. After this unique project was established, I became manager of its operations. I dealt with and did business with many multinational companies after I created my engineering and management-consulting firm that services the petroleum industry. Many of my colleagues at Harvard became, and some still are, CEOs of transnational and financial companies in the U.S. and elsewhere; I value these colleagues and friends. Each time I was set to go home after completing an assignment in the United States, I would be asked by many why I don't make America my home. For a Jordanian of Palestinian extraction, that question might seem logical. My answer, however, would always be the same: Americans have their values, we have ours.

I am writing this book because George W. Bush and the authors of the New World Order want to impose their values on me and mine, and on the world. I know Western values too well. I experienced them for about 50 years, almost a quarter of the life of the American Republic. I know that there is no conflict between true Islamic and true Christian values, as both are based on justice and fairness.

The message of this book is: Islam is a way of life and a religion. The conflict is not between Islam and the West; it is between the transnational "robber barons" and "the rest". Transnational magnates the world over share interests; their fellow citizens' well-being does not count. With the downsizing of nation-states, national leaders and national tycoons were reduced to the position of guardians of transnational barons' agenda.

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