The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West In
November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris
with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés and
restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016,
an ISIS sympathizer drove a truck into crowds of vacationers at the
beaches of Nice, and two weeks later an elderly French priest was
murdered during morning Mass by two ISIS militants. Here is Gilles
Kepel's explosive account of the radicalization of a segment of Muslim
youth that led to those attacks—and of the failure of governments in
France and across Europe to address it. It is a book everyone in the
West must read. Terror in France shows how these atrocities represent
a paroxysm of violence that has long been building. The turning point
was in 2005, when the worst riots in modern French history erupted in
the poor, largely Muslim suburbs of Paris after the accidental deaths
of two boys who had been running from the police. The unrest—or
"French intifada"—crystallized a new consciousness among young
French Muslims. Some have fallen prey to the allure of "war of
civilizations" rhetoric in ways never imagined by their parents and
grandparents. This is the highly anticipated English edition of
Kepel's sensational French bestseller, first published shortly after
the Paris attacks. Now fully updated to reflect the latest
developments and featuring a new introduction by the author, Terror in
France reveals the truth about a virulent new wave of jihadism that
has Europe as its main target. Its aim is to divide European societies
from within by instilling fear, provoking backlash, and achieving the
ISIS dream—shared by Europe's Far Right—of separating Europe's
growing Muslim minority community from the rest of its citizens.
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The Rise of Jihad in the West
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781400884643
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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