TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiktorowicz,Quintan
TI  - Radical Islam rising: Muslim extremism in the West 
SN  - 9781461641711 (ebook)
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Lanham, Md., Oxford
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Al-Muhajiroun
KW  - Islam
KW  - Western countries
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social groups: religious groups & communities
KW  - thema
KW  - Islamic life & practice
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780742536418; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - An analysis of radical Islamic political activity in the West, this study provides a detailed assessment of the reasons behind the longstanding and growing support for Islamist groups among communities living in the liberal democracies of the world; Although the West denounces the spread of radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, it tends to overlook the development of Islamic extremism in its own societies. Over the past several decades, groups like al-Qaeda have been supported by thousands of citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western democracies. Rejecting their national identity, they have heeded international calls to "jihad" and formed extremist groups to fight their own countries. This groundbreaking book represents one of the first systematic attempts to explain why Westerners join radical Islamic groups. Quintan Wiktorowicz details the mechanisms that attract potential recruits, the instruments of persuasion that convince them that radical groups represent "real Islam," and the socialization process that prods them to engage in risky extremism. Throughout, he traces the subtle process that can turn seemingly unreligious people into supporters of religious violence. The author's invaluable insights are based upon nearly unprecedented access to a radical Islamic group in the West. His extraordinary fieldwork forms the basis of a detailed case study of al-Muhajiroun, a transnational movement based in London that supports Bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists. Through its rich empirical detail, this book explains why ordinary people join extremist movements
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