By Raffaello Pantucci

ISBN-10: 1849041652

ISBN-13: 9781849041652

As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his team of fellow-believers into London at the morning of July 7, 2005 it truly is not going that they have been pondering a lot past the quick effect in their activities. pushed by means of anger on the West's remedy of Muslims around the globe, rules fed to them via overseas extremists, and a feeling of maximum rejection of the society within which they have been born, they sought to reshape the realm in a picture they notion will be unique to God. yet whereas they felt they have been on a holy project -- as enunciated in Khan's chilling video message, We Love demise As you like Life-- a much more earthly arc of historical past underlay their actions.

This e-book deals an perception into the motivations at the back of Khan and his workforce, in addition to the masses of younger British Muslims who've been drawn through jihadist principles to struggle on battlefields at domestic and out of the country. beginning with the arriving of immigrant groups to the united kingdom and the institution of diasporas with powerful ethnic connections to the center East and South Asia, to the arriving of jihadist warriors clean from the anti-Soviet battle Afghanistan, this booklet appears to be like on the historical past that got here earlier than Mohammed Siddique Khan and areas his motion inside its better context. This booklet presents the 1st complete historical past of jihadist rules and violence within the United Kingdom.

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