The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists

摘要: Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where missing martyrs? In this startlingly counterintuitive book, leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that groups thoroughly marginal world. Charles Kurzman draws government sources, public opinion surveys, election results, in-depth interviews with Middle East around He finds young indeed angry what they as imperialism-and especially at Western support for local dictatorships. But revolutionary Islamists have failed to reach them, can be seen from terrorists' own websites publications, which constantly bemoan dearth willing recruits. notes it takes only small cadre committed killers wreak unspeakable havoc. very fact underscores his point. As easy terrorism is commit, turn violence. Out 140,000 murders United States since 9/11, Islamist terrorists killed most three dozen people. Of 150,000 people who die each day, worldwide, militants account fewer fifty fatalities-and ten per day outside hotspots Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan. The real bulwark against violence, finds, themselves, reject both goals their bloody means. bombing, lose among Muslims. Incisive authoritative, Missing Martyrs provides much-needed corrective deep-seated destructive misconceptions about threat real, shows, but its dimensions are, far, tightly confined.