The Jihad Next Door

by Temple-Raston, Dina

• ISBN13: 9781586484033
• ISBN10: 1586484036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-10
• Publisher: Public Affairs

Summary

They called themselves the Arabian Knights. They were six Yemeni-American friends, a gang of high-school soccer stars, a band of brothers on the grim side streets of Lackawanna's First Ward, just a stone's throw from Buffalo.Later, people would argue about why they left western New York in the spring of 2001 to attend an al-Qaeda camp. Some said they traveled to Afghanistan to become America's first sleeper cellterrorists slumbering while they awaited orders from on high. Others said that their ill-fated trip was a lark, an adventurous extension of their youthful wrestling with what it meant to be Muslim in America.Dina Temple-Raston returns to Lackawanna to tell the story of a group of young menborn and brought up in small town Americawho left otherwise unremarkable lives to attend an al-Qaeda camp. Though they sought to quietly slip back into their roles as middle class Americans, the 9/11 attacks made that impossible.The Jihad Next Dooris the story of pre-emptive justice in the age of terror. It follows a handful of ordinary men through an extraordinary time when Muslims in America are often instantly suspect, their actions often viewed through the most sinister lens.

Author Biography

Dina Temple-Raston is the FBI correspondent for National Public Radio and the award-winning author of several books, including A Death in Texas, Justice in the Grass and In Defense of Our America. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Map	p. ix
Author's Note	p. xi
Prologue: Mukhtars Big Wedding	p. 1
The Curse of McKinley	p. 11
Ward Rats	p. 21
The Search for Clarity	p. 33
"God Rewards Those Who Fight"	p. 47
Of Mullahs and Madrassas	p. 65
The Closer	p. 81
"Take Your Souls in Your Hands"	p. 95
Sitting Down with the Sheikh	p. 113
"For Muslims in This Country, It is Over"	p. 127
On the Hot Seat	p. 141
Fitting Profiles	p. 159
A Conspiracy of Silence	p. 175
A Time of Fire	p. 195
Ideological Detonators	p. 211
Bills Fans or Jihadists?	p. 243
Epilogue: "Not Stones, But Men"	p. 251
Notes on Sources	p. 255
Acknowledgments	p. 271
Index	p. 275
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