Muslim Identity in the West and the Path to Radicalism

Author: Sabrina Karim Ghulamhussain

"By examining the concept of identity and its role in European and U.S. Muslim societies, this paper seeks to offer a more in-depth analysis of what identity is, how an identity crisis comes about, and how this crisis may lead to one ordinary person's astounding commitment to embark on a suicide mission in the name of a religion while leading another individual, committed to the same religion, to embark on the path of becoming a leader devoted to pluralism."