Reddit reviews Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (American Empire Project)

Books recommended by Hamza Yusuf in the video:

• A Peace to End All Peace
  
  
• Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

Book recommendation: Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

It is basically about how the US (and other governments in the west) actively nurtured extremist groups as a weapon and/or shield against communism and secular nationalism in the region. It is not directly related to the video of OP, but provides some important historical context.

If you look to the roots of Islamic fundamentalism and the Islamic revolution that (politically) culminated in the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the first modern Islamic theocracy, you find two things (and which served as the model for the spread of Islamic theocratic tendencies and extremism in the region):

1. Direct American/Western support, both tactical and financial to Wahhabist (fundamentalist) elements in the Middle East - as a Cold War tool to destabilize nationalist and Socialist governments that were unfavorable to American/Western interests in petroleum markets, but resulting in the development and propagation of a theocratic Islamic ideology and rise to prominence of those religious leaders; and
   
   
2. the leadership of Islamic clerics in the revolutionary movements seeking to overthrow the totalitarian dictatorship puppet regimes directly supported by American/Western governments.
   
   So you have secular, democratic governments being directly overthrown by Western governments and replaced with harsh dictatorships, and a reaction to this constant meddling in the form of Islamic leaders, using religion to appeal to the nationalist and revolutionary sentiment found in those countries.
   
   If that isn't a recipe for the taking hold of a strictly theocratic, anti-West (and along with it, it's cultural components), violently revolutionary ideology - then I don't know what is. But the bottom line is that the roots of it could have happened with any religion. It just so happened that the Middle East is Islamic.
   
   If you're interested in reading an excellent book on the history of the issue, I highly recommend "Devil's Game" by Robert Dreyfuss