Wiktorowicz: What´s Islamic Radicalism Movement?

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Wiktorowicz tries to explain why some individual engage with Islamic radicalism movement? What explains their initial interest? Why do they want to be joined in this risky activism? Even if the cost is high and might be they will sacrifice themselves. Wiktorowicz, with his sophisticated theoretical framework of social movement theory, is tries to answers these questions, why Muslim extremism in the Western societies like Great Britain did these?
Wiktorowicz, in this case, is trying to analysis the Islamic radical activism base on one radical organization (al-Muhajiroun) in London and ruled by Omar Bakri Mohammed. But I am questioning, is the radical activism could be analyzed by only one grand theory of social movement? Because social movement

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