What radicalizes Muslims is Islam. (snip) What we wishfully call “radicalism” is in fact the Islamic mainstream.This is a scary article, albeit one worth your time. McCarthy bases much of his article on a research paper recently published in Middle East Quarterly, which you can view here.
It seems Islam in America is experiencing the same trend as Protestant Christianity. That is, the more fundamentalist a congregation, the more people are attracted to it.
