Research Catalog

Title

Terror in the cradle of liberty : how Boston became a center for Islamic extremism / Ilya I. Feoktistov.

Author

Feoktistov, Ilya I., 1982-

Publication

• New York : Encounter Books, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

313 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In April of 2002, a mosque in Cambridge, MA run by the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) posted an appeal on its website: 'Chechen refugee family needs temporary place to live until they complete their permanent refugee status in the US. Husband has good business knowledge, auto-mechanic experience and construction.' Contrary to the Islamic Society of Boston's claims, taken entirely at face value by most media, that the Tsarnaev brothers only briefly and occasionally attended its Cambridge mosque over the year or so before they bombed the Boston Marathon, the Tsarnaevs were already involved with the ISB in April of 2002 -- the month that they arrived in the United States. The family, which was not religious when it arrived in America, began regularly praying at the ISB mosque and turned increasingly fundamentalist. This fits an alarming pattern: Since 9/11, fourteen leaders and members of the ISB have either been imprisoned, killed by law enforcement, or declared fugitives for their involvement in Islamic terrorism. The stories of the Tsarnaev brothers have been told in countless places. The story of the mosque that they attended during their increasing radicalization -- and the organization that runs it -- has not been told in any meaningful way. System Failure documents the rise of Islamist networks within New England's historically-moderate and century-old Muslim community since the 1960s. It contains a detailed and personal account of the efforts by Massachusetts activists since 2002 to expose and counter the influence of Islamist networks in New England -- even as Jewish, political, and law enforcement leaders in the Bay State have decided to embrace these networks as interfaith and community allies"--

Subjects

• Mosques
• Muslims
• Islamic fundamentalism
• Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar
• Radicalization
• Massachusetts > Boston
• Mosques > Massachusetts > Boston
• Terrorism > Religious aspects > Islam
• Muslims > Massachusetts > Boston
• Tsarnaev, Tamerlan
• Islamic Society of Boston
• Islamic fundamentalism > Massachusetts > Boston

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Many surprises -- Organizing to challenge the mosque -- The silence of the lambs -- The ISB strikes back -- The forty-one boxes -- Lawfare and its perils -- "They're here" -- The investigation begins -- The Muslim Brotherhood comes to Boston -- Boston joins the global jihad -- Foreign conflicts on Boston turf -- The infiltration of Boston's African-American Muslim community -- Overreach and under attack -- Did top Mass. cop Maura Healey facilitate terrorist financing and money laundering? -- Battle for the soul of a mosque -- The triumph of the radicals -- Make martyrdom what you seek -- The Boston cult of Lady al Qaeda -- The seventy-one rabbis -- I'm on the train! -- They plant a bomb in the heart -- Bombs will be planted in the street -- Fool me twice and three times -- Dream come true -- Violent and non-violent extremists -- Trump derangement in Boston.

Call Number

JFE 20-4455

ISBN

• 9781641770767
• 1641770767
• 9781641770774 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019019752
• 40029703296

OCLC

1119741150

Author

Feoktistov, Ilya I., 1982- author.

Title

Terror in the cradle of liberty : how Boston became a center for Islamic extremism / Ilya I. Feoktistov.

Publisher

New York : Encounter Books, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First American edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Feoktistov, Ilya I., 1982- Terror in the cradle of liberty New York : Encounter Books, [2019] 9781641770774 (DLC) 2019980107

Other Standard Identifier

40029703296

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4455