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020			_a978014103432
040			_cAL
041			_aeng
082			_223 _a320.55 _bHUSI
100			_aEd Husain _912612
245			_aIslamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left
260			_aNew York: _bPenguin Books, _c2007.
300			_a288 p. _bPB _c20x13 cm.
365			_b8.99 _c£ _d8.99
520			_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.
650			_aPolitical Science _912603
650			_aRadicalism _912604
650			_aExtremists _912605
650			_aMuslims _912606
700			_aHUSAIN (Ed) _912607
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