RADICAL ORIGINS: Why We Are Losing the Battle Against Islamic Extremism--And How to Turn the Tide

Military action abroad and police action at home have only attended to the symptoms of terrorism, not the cause. The root, according to Dr. Ibrahim, is actually the extreme ideology of Wahhabism: the puritanical, reactionary, isolationist, xenophobic, and bigoted sect of Sunni Islam that has been the ideological bedrock of the state of Saudi Arabia since the eighteenth century.