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My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir
by Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585426113
- ISBN 13
- 9781585426119
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About This Item
Tarcher, 2008. Very good trade paperback . Paperback. Very Good.
Synopsis
My Year Inside Radical Islam is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of strict dogma, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross converted to Islam in college-a process that began with a desire to connect with both a religious community and a spiritual practice, and eventually led him to sympathize with the most extreme interpretations of the faith with the most radical political implications. In the year following graduation, Gartenstein-Ross went to work for the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a charity dedicated to fostering Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's austere form of Islam-a theological inspiration for many terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda. Shortly after he left Al Haramain-when his own fanaticism had waned-the foundation was charged by the U. S. government for a money-laundering scheme that was seemingly designed to finance terrorist organizations. Gartenstein-Ross, by this time a lawyer at a prominent firm, volunteered for questioning by the FBI. They already knew who he was. The story of how a good faith can be distorted and a decent soul can be seduced away from his principles, My Year Inside Radical Islam provides a rare glimpse into the personal interface between religion and politics.
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- Bookseller
- The Book House - St. Louis
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180606-JL04
- Title
- My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir
- Author
- Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585426113
- ISBN 13
- 9781585426119
- Publisher
- Tarcher
- Place of Publication
- New Delhi
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Memoir, Biography, Religion, Muslim, Islam, Jihad, al-Qaeda
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