01550nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000170005804000070007504100080008208200210009010000140011124500860012526000370021130000260024836500190027452009470029365000220124065000150126265000150127765000120129270000160130420220106152012.0220106b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a978014103432  cAL  aeng  223a320.55bHUSI  aEd Husain  aIslamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left  aNew York:bPenguin Books,c2007.  a288 p.bPBc20x13 cm.  b8.99c£d8.99  aThe Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left is a 2007 book about Ed Husain's five years as an Islamist. The book has been described as "as much a memoir of personal struggle and inner growth as it is a report on a new type of extremism."[1] The son of pious Muslim parents from South Asia, living in East London, Husain joins the Islamist group Young Muslim Organization at the age of sixteen, before moving on to be active in Hizb ut-Tahrir while in college. After disheartening experiences with factional infighting and sectarian violence at his college, and unIslamic behavior while living in Saudi Arabia as an English teacher, Husain rejects political Islam and returns to "normal" life and his family. Husain describes his book as explaining "the appeal of extremist thought, how fanatics penetrate Muslim communities and the truth behind their agenda of subverting the West and moderate Islam.  aPolitical Science  aRadicalism  aExtremists  aMuslims  aHUSAIN (Ed)