Europe's Angry Muslims
The Revolt of The Second Generation
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Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe. It guides readers through Islamic nomenclature, chronicles the motive force of the Islamist narrative, offers them lively portraits of jihadists, and takes them inside radical mosques and into the minds of suicide bombers. Through interviews of former radicals and security agents and examination of the sermons of radical imams, Robert Leiken presents an unsentimental yet compassionate account of Islam's growing presence in the West. His nuanced and authoritative analysis-historical, sociological, theological and anthropological-warns that conflating rioters and Islamists, folk and fundamentalist Muslims, pietists and jihadis, and immigrants and their children is the method of strategic incoherence.
Now with a new preface analyzing the rise of ISIL, this book offers a cogent overview of how global terror and its responding foreign policy interacts with the lives of Muslim, first-and second generation immigrants in Europe.
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Leiken (Why Nicaragua Vanished), director of the Immigration and National Security Program at the Center for the National Interest, explores "Muslim anger" in Britain, France, and Germany the three European countries with the largest Muslim populations in this extensively sourced and robustly argued treatise. Adopting a comparative approach, the author explores how rage has "played itself out" differently in different countries: riots in France, bombings in Britain. Leiken notes that "extremism in Europe is typically found not among migrants but among their children" and that radicalization has its roots most firmly in the "downward mobility" of the second generation. Leiken wisely includes case studies of individual mujahideen in each country to balance his scholarly focus. While his analysis stops short of recommending specific policies regarding homegrown mujahideen, the author clearly hopes that his study encourages governments to embrace "a theory of relativity in antiterrorism." Timely and provocative, this is an important addition to the literature on Islamic terrorism.
