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Breeding Bin LadensEvent Date
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Mr. Zach Shore, Associate Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Zachary Shore is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also a research scholar at both the Institute of European Studies and the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the US State Department's Policy Planning Staff, was a National Security Fellow at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, and is the author of Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe.
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This event is co-sponsored by the United Nations Association - East Bay. Listen to the program audio file or visit our online archive for other event recordings.
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While much of American foreign policy is focused on fighting extremists in the Middle East and South Asia, many American leaders have lost sight of a growing threat closer to home: the growing ambivalence of Europe’s Muslims. Until the United States and Europe adopt new strategies to attract the hearts and minds of moderate Muslims living in the West, Shore argues, Europe will increasingly become the incubation ground for breeding new Bin Ladens. Shore asserts that “No one is born a terrorist; terrorists are bred” and that therefore it is imperative to understand the thoughts and feelings of Europe’s younger Muslims, most of whom would never commit violence, but some of whom could be tempted to sympathize with terrorist acts. He gives voice to people of deep faith who speak of the conflict between their desire to integrate into their adopted societies and the repulsion they feel toward some of what the West represents.