Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs?In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Is
The missing martyrs : why there are so few Muslim terrorists
โ Scribed by Kurzman, Charles
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
v, 248 p. ; 25 cm
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