My Year Inside Radical Islam
Subtitle: A Memoir
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: February 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781585425518
Subjects: Biography: general; Political ideologies; Islam; Islamic Government; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Islam - General; Personal Memoirs; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biography; Muslim converts; Muslim converts from Judaism; Muslims; United States
Description: 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.