Jessica Stern Biography

Why Religious Militants Kill. A lecturer at Harvard University Stern served as director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council and was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Included in Time magazine's series on 100 people with bold ideas she is the model for the title character played by Nicolle Kidman in the movie The Peacemaker.Stern spent five years interviewing members of Christian Muslim and Jewish extremist groups probing the political psychological spiritual and economic roots of the faith-based militancy that is spreading throughout the world as a reaction to globalization and the New World Order. She bravely ventured into the heart of Muslim fundamentalist organizations in Pakistan Gaza and Indonesia. She met with a vast array of extremist groups including both the Jewish Underground and Hamas in Israel the creator of the Taliban in Pakistan and a former commander of the Covenant the Sword and the Arm of the Lord in a trailer park in Texas. Stern connects many of the factors that link religious terrorists-from members of al Qaeda to Timothy McVeigh. She finds that the majority who join these groups feel disenfranchised and left behind by modernity. Their response to the

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