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Political Abuse of a Biblical Paradigm: The Case of the Akeidah

In response to the terrorist bombings of Sept. 11, Philip Wilcox, a former Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism in the State Department, offered the following advice: "We should ... search for ways to strengthen the common bonds between Western values and Islam to combat the notion of a ‘clash of civilizations’ and to weaken the Islamist extremist fringe that hates the West and supports terrorist actions." "Redefining national security and counter-terrorism in this broader sense is the most promising way to fight the war against terrorism."² Implicit in Wilcox' formulation is the idea that perhaps exploring and exploiting the core monotheistic ideas...