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This book tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in the West. In
forensic and compelling detail, Jytte Klausen traces how Islamist
revolutionaries exiled in Europe and North America in the 1990s
helped create and control one of the world's most impactful
terrorist movements - and how, after the near-obliteration of the
organization during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, they helped
build it again. She shows how the diffusion of Islamist terrorism
to Europe and North America has been driven, not by local
grievances of Western Muslims, but by the strategic priorities of
the international Salafi-jihadist revolutionary movement. That
movement has adapted to Western repertoires of protest: agitating
for armed insurrection and religious revivalism in the name of a
warped version of Islam. The jihadists-Al Qaeda and the Islamic
State, and their many affiliates and associates- also proved to be
amazingly resilient. Again and again, the movement recovered from
major setbacks. Appealing to disaffected Muslims of immigrant
origin and alienated converts to Islam, Jihadist groups continue to
recruit new adherents in Europe and North America, street-side in
neighborhoods, in jails, and online through increasingly
clandestine platforms. Taking a comparative and historical
approach, deploying cutting-edge analytical tools, and drawing on
her unparalleled database of up to 6,500 Western jihadist
extremists and their networks, Klausen has produced the most
comprehensive account yet of the origins of Western jihadism and
its role in the global movement.
The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city
councilors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and
social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and
community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to
become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that
reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order
to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not
terrorists, and most do not support the introduction of Islamic
religious law in Europe--especially not its application to
Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they
want.
This book is based on three hundred interviews with European
Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of
Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises
difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam
in public life, and about European identities. Europe's Muslim
political leaders are not aiming to overthrow liberal democracy and
to replace secular law with Islamic religious law. Those are the
positions of a minority. There is not one Muslim position on how
Islam should develop in Europe but many views, and most Muslims are
rather looking for ways to build institutions that will allow
European Muslims to practice their religion in a way that is
compatible with social integration.
The voices in this book belong to legislators, local officials,
doctors and engineers, educators and intellectuals, lawyers and
social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and
community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to
become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that
reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order
to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not
terrorists, and most do not support the introduction of Islamic
religious law in Europe - especially not its application to
Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they
want. This book is based on three hundred interviews with European
Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of
Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises
difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam
in public life, and about European identities. There is not one
Muslim position on how Islam should develop in Europe but many
views, and most Muslims are rather looking for ways to build
institutions that will allow European Muslims to practice their
religion in a way that is compatible with social integration.
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