Sounds like an insiders' cabal driving the real candidates away. There was a news piece on a seminarian who was driven away by constant sexual harrassment by the males at some American seminary. Came out about a month ago.
Is that the direction this book will take?
Author: Bernard Lewis. Title: What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, Oxford University Press, 2002.
A small book packed with information that will assist those who want to make some sense of the Islamist challenge to the West. Lewis is an expert whose prose runs smoothly and who tells a tale better than most of his contemporaries.