Overview

"""My Year Inside Radical Islam"" is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in the US by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of strict dogma, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross converted to Islam in college - a process that began with a desire to connect with both a religious community and a spiritual practice and eventually led him to sympathise with the most extreme interpretations of the faith with the most radical political implications. In the year following 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 for a money-laundering scheme that was seemingly designed to finance terrorist organisations. 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 his principles, ""My Year Inside Radical Islam"" provides a rare glimpse into the personal interface between religion and politics."

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9781585426119

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"""Daveed Gartenstein-Ross has something rare to offer, namely the perspective of someone who has ties with each the major monotheistic faiths whose upbringing also exposed a hodgepodge of New Age beliefs, another underexamined current feeding into the post-9/11 maelstrom."" -""Los Angeles Times"""

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross has something rare to offer, namely the perspective of someone who has ties with each the major monotheistic faiths whose upbringing also exposed a hodgepodge of New Age beliefs, another underexamined current feeding into the post-9/11 maelstrom. - Los Angeles Times

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a counter terrorism consultant. He is frequently asked to give recommendations to law enforcement and senior politicians and his articles on terrorism, religious extremism and the law have appeared in a wide range of publications.

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