new book - Bullets to Ballots: Violent Muslim Movements in Transition

This book sounds terrific: Ballots to Bullets: Violent Muslim Movements in Transition. Reviewed here.

From the author, David Phillips:
My book is a post-mortem of George W. Bush’s counterterrorism policy. It is also intended as a guide for the Obama administration. Part of it consists of case studies of groups that are at various stages of abandoning violence and seeking their goals through political means: the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, Free Aceh Movement, and the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. Some of these groups are making progress; others are back-tracking; while some groups are dividing into various factions. These case studies are considered within the context of world affairs since Bush declared his “Global War on Terror,” of which the book is deeply critical.

Goes well with what Rami Khouri (Daily Star) said the other night on 'On Point' with Tom Askbrook which I posted on here. Paraphrase of his statement:
As civil rights strugglers, MLK, turned to religion, as Desmond Tutu did for anti apartheid movement, so do Muslims turn to religion to frame and support their struggles for rights, justice governance and freedom.

Might be a nice compliment to another book that came out recently Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places which I posted on here; included is a link to the review in the NYTimes.