Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Risk of Radicalization and Terrorism in U.S. Muslim Communities

From Jerrod M. Post and Gabriel Sheffer at the Brown Journal of World Affairs

It is estimated that some 80% of new recruits to the global Salafi jihad are children and grandchildren of Muslim émigrés who have felt alienated from their host cultures. This alienation is the driving force behind not only Islamist radicalization but also the radicalization that results in more quotidian political and social violence. While the U.S. tradition of diversity may have slowed or deterred the radicalization of Muslim émigrés in the United States, this review suggests reasons to believe that the phenomenon now so threatening in Europe could become more threatening in the United States as well.

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