The book explores possible reasons why people aredrawn to violent Islamist groups. This is done bymapping psychological mechanisms which might beeffective in the process of making individualsreceptive to the jihadi-Salafi ideology. The book'sperspective stems from the conviction that thestructural conditions in a given society aredecisive in the propagation of radical oppositionalgroups.The psychological mechanism known as the sour-grapessyndrome will serve to illustrate the effect of thesocio-economic conditions in the Middle East. InJean de La Fontaine's fable, a fox decides that thegrapes he can not reach are sour and thus not worthhaving. In the current context I will argue thatsome of the aversion towards Western stylegovernment and social order, stems from thismechanism; as the western world's standard of livingand individual freedom appear unattainable to peopleliving in many Muslim countries, they react byopposing these values.
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