Approaching the war of ideas / John Gallagher and Eric D. Patterson -- Jihadism's war on democracy / Walid Phares -- "Dangerous concepts" and the struggle within: reclaiming state and politics from the Islamists / Maajid Nawaz -- Sharing with equals: modernity, fundamentalism, and the future / Karen Armstrong -- Taqiyya: war and deceit in Islam / Raymond Ibrahim -- Debates over just war and Jihad: ideas, interpretations, and implications across cultures / James Turner Johnson -- The war of ideas: the role of the "afterlife" / Alan M. Dershowitz -- The clash of civilizations? / Akbar Ahmed -- Debating absolutism and pluralism in contemporary Islam / Asma Afsaruddin -- Democracy, religion, and the war of ideas / Eric D. Patterson -- Inter-civilizational conflict between value systems and concepts of order: exploring the Islamic humanist potential for a peace of ideas / Bassam Tibi -- The war of ideas as therapy: reflections on a eureka moment in the "war on terror" / Abdelwahab El-Affendi -- Waging trans-epistemological warfare / Jarret M. Brachman -- Counter-radicalization and Europe's new security dilemma / Lorenzo Vidino -- The struggle for Islamism in the Levant: the case of northern Lebanon / Bernard Rougier -- Dissonance and denial: U.S. foreign policy and the war of ideas / Robert Spencer