What is the cause of violent extremism in the Kenyan coast? What lies behind the increasing number of killings in Kwale County? Radicalization into Violent Extremism seeks answers to these questions and tries to explore the connection between the killings and some Muslim youths who had returned from Somalia suspected of being behind the killings. The book presents information on Violent Extremism in Kenya with a special focus on the coast region, the influence of various prominent Islamist scholars in shaping the transformation of Islam from a conservative, accommodative and moderate model to a puritanical cum extremist model and the emergence of political Islam in Kenya.