Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across several countries examine how people interact in their everyday work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration, discrimination, and political representation. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims. This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. After examining each of these concepts in detail, and showing the ways in which they lead to violence among widely disparate groups, these engrossing essays explore such areas as fundamentalism in the American experience and among jihadists, and they illuminate aspects of the same psychology that contributed to such historical crises as the French Revolution, the Nazi movement, and post-Partition Hindu religious practi… What accounts for the violence that emerges among some fundamentalist groups? The contributors to this book identify several factors: a radical dualism, in which all aspects of life are bluntly categorized as either good or evil a destructive inclination to interpret authoritative texts, laws, and teachings in the most literal of terms an extreme and totalized conversion experience paranoid thinking and an apocalyptic world view. This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. He is the recipient of the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and numero…
Throughout his career, he worked alongside Jocko, Leif, and several members of the Echelon Front team developing the same principles and mindsets taught to companies across every industry. As a lead instructor for Naval Special Warfare Group One Training Detachment, he created and implemented realistic and challenging special operations combat training to better prepare SEAL units for the real-world battlefield. He brings perspective from every level of leadership from a front line SEAL sniper to the SEAL Team FIVE Command Master Chief.
With experience operating in violent cities in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Jason has seen first-hand the power of the leadership lessons taught at Echelon Front. Jason spent nearly three decades in the SEAL Teams with nine deployments across the globe. Navy SEAL, combat leader, and now a leadership instructor and speaker with Echelon Front.