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A decade after the attacks this groundbreaking book by a preeminent reporter takes readers deep into the struggle within the Muslim world where a growing movement defies and challenges extremism and repudiates Osama bin Laden his deviant doctrine and his violent disciples Robin Wright an acclaimed foreign correspondent and television commentator has witnessed the angry birth violent rise and globalization of Islamic militancy for almost four decades In her recent reporting she discovers a stunning new trend spreading within the Muslim worldthe rejection of Islamic extremists This is a historic evolution slow to take off but now reaching critical mass This trend is increasingly visible as clerics publicly repudiate Osama bin Laden Muslim comedians ridicule militancy altogether young Muslims rap against guns and bombs women scholars launch liberation movements using the Koran Pakistani villagers resist Taliban intrusions and former Egyptian jihadis debate and then denounce violence This new jihad which Wright describes in its many manifestations has various goalsnbspFor some Muslims its about reforming the faith For others its about reforming political systems For all it is about achieving basic rightson their own terms not Western ones What is at its heart is the rejection of venomous ideologies suicide bombs plane hijackings hostage-takings and mass violence Muslims Wright demonstrates are doing what the West cannotconfronting extremism on its own terms and rescuing the faith from a virulent minority and changing history.



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