Authors:Bruce Hoffman, William Rosenau, Andrew J. Curiel,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: security, center, studies, eth, zurich, corporation, rand, diasporas, terrorism, joint, conference, radicalization
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040472
ISBN-13: 9780833040473

Over the past two years, certain Diaspora communities, frustrated with a perceived war against the Muslim world, have turned against their adopted homelands, targeting the government and its people by supporting terrorist attacks against Western countries through recruitment, fundraising, and training. Critical issues include incidents that prove these communities will indeed attack their adopted homelands; that recruits come from converts to Islam, first-generation migrants disaffected with their new society, and second-generation failed assimilations; that Diasporas create financial lifeline