Lexington Books
Pages: 170
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-9104-0 • Hardback • December 2016 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-4872-4 • Paperback • September 2018 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-0-7391-9105-7 • eBook • December 2016 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Travis Morris is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice and serves as director of Norwich University’s Peace and War Center.
Introduction
Chapter 1—Manufacturing Divine Traitors: Sayyid Qutb and Ben Klassen
Chapter 2—The Need to Weaponize Ideas: Anwar Al-Awlaki and William Pierce
Chapter 3—Strategizing New Violence: Abdullah Azzam and Louis Beam
Chapter 4—Shifting the Targeting Paradigm: Osama bin Laden and George Lincoln Rockwell
Chapter 5—The Need to Create Soft Extremism: Mohammed Maqdisi and David Duke
Chapter 6—The Way Forward: Focus on the Source, Not Just the Symptoms
A detailed study of the role of ideology on extremism and terrorism, this book delineates the innovative uses of violent jihadi and neo-Nazi ideas, demonstrating how ideology can be reconstructed in support of malicious objectives. A thought-provoking and a timely study for counter-terrorism scholars and practitioners.
— Rohan Gunaratna, author of "Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror"