In Whose Name?

September 11, 2001: Abbas watches live on Siberian television the tragedy taking place thirteen time zones away. A year later, confronted with a giant cross erected on the ruins of the World Trade Centre, he asks: "does one form of religious intolerance lead to another?", and embarks on a seven year project completed in the book "In Whose Name?" Driven by a desire to understand how the umma, the polity of Muslims throughout the world, let violent jihadism develop in its midst, he travels through 16 countries. From New York to Jakarta, from Kabul to Zanzibar, through Baghdad, Teheran and Dubai the quest is the same: how Islam, the religion feeds islamism, the political ideology.