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N.Y. bomb plot: What radicalizes some converts to Islam?

researcher12 years ago02 mins

The case of Jose Pimentel, an “al-Qaida sympathizer” accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York, has once again focused our attention on why converts to Islam appear to be so fascinated by violent jihad. Is there something in the act of conversion that transforms normal citizens into messengers of death? For the answer,…

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Scholar Akbar Ahmed and research team explore Muslim identity in America

researcher15 years ago15 years ago03 mins

A team of five mostly 20-something Americans, led by esteemed Muslim scholar Akbar Ahmed, are crisscrossing the nation on an anthropological mission to discuss American identity, Muslim identity, and find out how well the US upholds its ideals in a post-September 11 world. “As a social scientist … as a Muslim, it was almost my…

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