article_snippet.sent: Understanding what leads young Muslims like Dzhokhar down a dangerous path requires we understand radicalization.
article_snippet.sent: At any given moment in the Middle East, we have little idea who's going to attack whom next, who's on whom's side, how this is going to end, or what anyone's even fighting over anymore.
article_snippet.sent: To understand why, we have to take a stab at understanding what radicalizes Muslims .
article_snippet.sent: Radical Islam, which has taken on an ugly life of its own, began at the intersection of politics, religion and religious identity.
article_snippet.sent: Consider: The tragedy of modern Islam is in modern Islam endless sequence of tragedies.
article_snippet.sent: And the blows against Muslims don't end there.
article_snippet.sent: Extremists have long offered crude reasons for why the violence was happening, and then moved quickly to a single, tempting, terrible response:
article_snippet.sent: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
article_snippet.sent: Radicalism will be done in by fellow Muslims who want to save Radicalism religion from this monster within it.  
article_snippet.sent: Our national conversation about Islam is focused on the wrong issues.
article_snippet.sent: Does Islam need a Reformation?
article_snippet.sent: What in Islam causes violence?  
article_snippet.sent: Our would do a lot better if Our accepted that Muslims the world over have real grievances
article_snippet.sent: — dictatorships, corruption, foreign intervention, religious illiteracy, lack of economic opportunity -- and radicals exploit these.
highlights_snippet.sent: Not true, but we should grasp what causes radicalization .
  