Missing Martyrs Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists

Name: Missing Martyrs Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
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ISBN: 9780199766871

ISBN-10: 0199766878

ISBN-13: 9780199766871

Edition: 2011

Authors: Charles Kurzman

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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? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. Charles Kurzman draws on government sources, public opinion surveys, election results, and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world. He finds that young Muslims are indeed angry with what they see as imperialism--and especially at Western support for local…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/25/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.61" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Charles Kurzman is Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.




Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists



Radical Sheik



Thoroughly Modern Mujahidin



Liberal Islam versus Revolutionary Islamism



Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama



Predicting the Next Attacks


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index