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My year inside radical Islam : a memoir / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross.

by Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed, 1976-

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New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2007.

Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed, 1976-

Islamic fundamentalism.

Islam and politics.

Islam -- Biography.

Islam -- Customs and practices.

9781585425518 :

293 p. ; 22 cm.

This memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction shows how a good faith can be distorted and a decent soul can be seduced away from its principles. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of dogma, Gartenstein-Ross yearned for a religion that would suit all his ideals. At college in the late nineties he met a charismatic Muslim student who grounded his political activism with 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. Gartenstein-Ross is now an attorney and a full-time counterterrorism consultant.--From publisher description.

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