TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gartenstein-Ross,Daveed
TI  - My year inside radical Islam: a memoir 
SN  - 9781585426119
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
KW  - Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed,
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Islam
KW  - Biography
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Wahhabiyah
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [294])
N2  - 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
ER  -