By Peter Bergen
A riveting, panoramic examine “homegrown” Islamist terrorism from 9-11 to the present
in view that 11th of September, greater than 300 Americans—born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere—have been indicted or convicted of terrorism fees. a few have taken the struggle out of the country: an American was once between those that deliberate the assaults in Mumbai, and greater than 80 U.S. electorate were charged with ISIS-related crimes. Others have acted on American soil, as with the assaults at castle Hood, the Boston Marathon, and in San Bernardino. What motivates them, how are they proficient, and what can we sacrifice in our efforts to trace them?
Paced like a detective tale, United States of Jihad tells the entwined tales of the foremost actors at the American entrance. one of the perpetrators are Anwar al-Awlaki, the hot Mexico-born radical cleric who turned the 1st American citizen killed through a CIA drone and who mentored the Charlie Hebdo shooters; Samir Khan, whose Inspire webzine has rallied terrorists all over the world, together with the Tsarnaev brothers; and Omar Hammami, an Alabama local and hip hop fan who grew to become a fixture in al Shabaab’s propaganda movies until eventually fatally displeasing his superiors.
Drawing on his broad community of intelligence contacts, from the nationwide Counterterrorism heart and the FBI to the NYPD, Peter Bergen additionally bargains an within examine the arguable strategies of the enterprises monitoring power terrorists—from infiltrating mosques to giant surveillance; on the bias skilled via blameless observant Muslims by the hands of legislations enforcement; on the critics and defenders of U.S. regulations on terrorism; and at how social media has revolutionized terrorism.
Lucid and carefully researched, United States of Jihad is a vital new research of the american citizens who've embraced militant Islam either right here and abroad.
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There have been Muslims in the United States since the Colonial era, and their right to practice their faith has been enshrined since 1786, with the passage of the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom. ” The act became the basis for the First Amendment protections of freedom of religion. Many Muslims have observed how open America is to Islam’s many strains and sects compared to their home countries. ’ I see the difference. ” In a number of Muslim nations, membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a nonviolent Islamist movement with many millions of supporters, is discouraged or banned; in others, worshipping as a Shia Muslim is difficult or even deadly.
According to the Renseignements Généraux, a police agency that monitors militants in France, half the neighborhoods with a high Muslim population are isolated from French social and political life. The French term for these neighborhoods is equivalent to “sensitive urban zones,” where youth unemployment averages 45 percent. ” It’s perhaps small wonder that France has supplied more foreign fighters to the war in Syria (more than fifteen hundred) than any other Western nation. It’s also not surprising that it is the European country that has suffered the most severe “blowback” from the Syrian war.
Floridian Adnan Shukrijumah was in charge of al-Qaeda’s operations to attack the United States until his death in Pakistan in 2014. Californian Adam Gadahn was the group’s spokesman and media adviser until he was killed in a CIA drone strike in early 2015. Among al-Qaeda affiliates, Alabama native Omar Hammami played a leadership role in al-Shabaab, the brutal Somali group, and the Pakistani organization Lashkar-e-Taiba recruited Chicagoan David Headley in planning the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.