By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
A nation's counterterrorism measures range from employing its intelligence agencies to monitor, understand and, if possible, take pre-emptive actions against terrorists to mobilizing the international community against them. These themes are discussed in several recently published books
In the highly informative and important "Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat," Youssef Aboul-Enein defines the threats posed by militant Islamists who, he writes, cloak themselves in Islam but are not representative of its mainstream religion and practices.
He explains the ideas of the ideological founders of Islamism and militant Islamism, such as the Egyptian Sayyid Qutb.
