Introduction -- Manufacturing divine traitors : Sayyid Qutb and Ben Klassen -- The need to weaponize ideas : Anwar al-Awlaki and William Pierce -- Strategizing new violence : Abdullah Azzam and Louis Beam -- Shifting the targeting paradigm : Osama bin Laden and George Lincoln Rockwell -- The need to create soft extremism : Mohammed Maqdisi and David Duke -- The way forward : focus on the source, not just the symptoms -- Appendix
Summary
Dark Ideas provides readers with a different method of understanding how ideas can transform violent extremism. Over recent decades, violent jihadi and neo-Nazi ideologues have continued to promote new strategic and tactical innovations that shaped the evolution of terrorism. Many of these "dark" innovations have now become accepted practices by groups and individuals, yet they are rarely examined
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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