Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe

Zachary Shore is an associate professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State through a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his doctorate in modern European history from Oxford University and served as a national security fellow at Harvard's Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the author of What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy and Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions.

Well-written overview of the state of Islam in Europe. Bloomsbury Review 2006 Shore captures much of the nuance and contradiction of a community being asked to integrate into national polities that exploit them economically, treat their faith as a second-class superstition, and fail to deal with persistent, widespread racism. -- Aziz Hug American Prospect The narrative style of this timely work makes it a rewarding read. Library Journal 2006 The only one of the American authors to have taken the trouble to talk to a lot of European Muslims. -- Gideon Rachman Financial Times 2006 Shore's wise and thoughtful book addresses Europe's 'Muslim problems'... This eminently readable volume deserves to be widely known and seriously pondered. -- Stanley Hoffmann Foreign Affairs 2007 [Shore] proposes to alert American policymakers, business people and simply interested citizens to the challenge of paying attention to Islamic culture... And who's to say he isn't right. -- John Patrick Grace Herald-Dispatch 2007 This is must read for anyone who wants to know more about the complex world of Europe's Muslims. Choice 2007 Shore's thoughtful and measured analysis stands out in a genre awash in oversimplification, misinformation, and polemics. -- Elizabeth A. Barre H-Amstdy, H-Net Reviews 2007