Homegrown terrorists in the U.S. and U.K
Subtitle: an empirical study of the radicalization process
By: Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Laura Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Laura; Center for Terrorism Research; Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Publisher: FDD Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780981971216
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Terrorism; Radicalism; Jihad; Prevention; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Islamic fundamentalism
Description: The study is a product of over a year and half of research into the phenomenon of homegrown terrorists--Westerners who have chosen to take up arms against the society in which they were born or raised. Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. examines six different steps are particularly significant as homegrown terrorists radicalize: the adoption of a legalistic interpretation of Islam, coming to trust only a select and ideologically rigid group of religious authorities, viewing the West and Islam and irreconcilably opposed, manifesting a low tolerance for perceived religious deviance, attempting to impose religious beliefs on others, and the expression of radical political views.
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed June 12, 2009).

Includes bibliographical references.