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100 1 $aGartenstein-Ross, Daveed,$d1976-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006089096
245 10 $aMy year inside radical Islam :$ba memoir /$cDaveed Gartenstein-Ross.
260 $aNew York :$bJeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a293 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [294]).
520 1 $a"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 yearned for a religion that would suit all his ideals. At college in the late 1990s he met a charismatic Muslim student who grounded his political activism in thoughtful religious conviction. Gartenstein-Ross reflects on his experience of converting to Islam - 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 after 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 with being a source of funds for 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 its principles, My Year Inside Radical Islam provides a rare glimpse into the personal interface between religion and politics."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGartenstein-Ross, Daveed,$d1976-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006089096
650 0 $aIslamic fundamentalism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87005404
650 0 $aIslam and politics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068420
650 0 $aIslam$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104958
650 0 $aIslam$xCustoms and practices.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87005732
650 0 $aWahhābīyah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144813
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