The Missing Martyrs
Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?
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ISBN:
9780190053444
Publication date:
31/12/2018
Hardback
264 pages
Price: 750.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190053444
Publication date:
31/12/2018
Hardback
264 pages
Second Edition
Charles Kurzman
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Second Edition
Charles Kurzman
Description
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and devastation that terrorists have wrought around the world. But the scale of violence, outside of civil war zones, has been far lower than the waves of attacks that the world feared in the wake of 9/11. Terrorists' own publications complain about Muslims' failure to join their cause. The Missing Martyrs draws on government sources and revolutionary publications, public opinion surveys and election results, historical documents and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world to examine barriers to terrorist recruitment, including liberal Islam, revolutionary rivalries, and an inelastic demand for U.S. foreign policy. This revised edition, updated to include the self-proclaimed "Islamic State," concludes that fear of terrorism should be brought into alignment with the actual level of threat, and that government policies and public opinion should be based on evidence rather than alarmist hyperbole.
About the Author
Charles Kurzman is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Democracy Denied and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran.
Second Edition
Charles Kurzman
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
Chapter 2. Radical Sheik
Chapter 3. Thoroughly Modern Mujahedin
Chapter 4. Liberal Islam versus Revolutionary Islamism
Chapter 5. Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama
Chapter 6. Predicting the Next Attacks
Second Edition
Charles Kurzman
Features
- Directly and thoughtfully addresses concerns about terrorism
- Contains specific recommendations to improve U.S. relations with Muslim societies
- Illustrated with vivid anecdotes and memorable facts
- Updated for the age of ISIS
New to this Edition :
Second Edition
Charles Kurzman
Description
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and devastation that terrorists have wrought around the world. But the scale of violence, outside of civil war zones, has been far lower than the waves of attacks that the world feared in the wake of 9/11. Terrorists' own publications complain about Muslims' failure to join their cause. The Missing Martyrs draws on government sources and revolutionary publications, public opinion surveys and election results, historical documents and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world to examine barriers to terrorist recruitment, including liberal Islam, revolutionary rivalries, and an inelastic demand for U.S. foreign policy. This revised edition, updated to include the self-proclaimed "Islamic State," concludes that fear of terrorism should be brought into alignment with the actual level of threat, and that government policies and public opinion should be based on evidence rather than alarmist hyperbole.
About the Author
Charles Kurzman is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Democracy Denied and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
Chapter 2. Radical Sheik
Chapter 3. Thoroughly Modern Mujahedin
Chapter 4. Liberal Islam versus Revolutionary Islamism
Chapter 5. Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama
Chapter 6. Predicting the Next Attacks
