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Radical : my journey out of Islamist extremism
Title:
Radical : my journey out of Islamist extremism
Author:
Nawaz, Maajid.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
The story of a young man's rise in an extremist Muslim group, his imprisonment in Egypt, and his rebirth as an advocate for peace and understanding.
Language:
English
Contents:
Preface to the US Edition -- Foreword / Prologue -- B-Boy -- Memories of the Ghost Train -- This Game's Not for Pakis -- Doctor Who Said "Fuck tha Police" -- Stranger Stabbed for Me -- Green Backpack with No Bomb -- When Babri Mosque Fell in India -- A Land Where Fetuses Are Cut from Wombs -- Islamist -- An Islamist Takeover -- 12,000 Muslims Screaming "Khilafah" -- Servant of the Compeller -- Womb That Bore Me -- A Show of Hands to Harden the Heart -- Romanticism of Struggle -- Dreams of a Nuclear Caliphate -- Caliphs in Copenhagen -- Polemic -- Welcome to Egypt: We Do As We Please -- Ghimamah Has No Rules -- Number Forty-Two -- Assalaamu Alaykum, You've Just Come out of Hell -- Luxury of an Audience -- Penguin Is Hit by Slippers -- "Monocracy" -- Radical -- Where the Heart Leads, the Mind Can Follow -- No Right to Silence -- How Many Years Did You Fail? -- Civil-Democratic Intimidation -- Decade-Late Apology -- Monkeys in a Zoo -- Visiting No. 10 -- Khudi Pakistan -- I Will See Your Day When It Comes -- Postscript -- Epilogue: Ideas Are Bulletproof (2013) -- Glossary of Arabic Terms -- Resources -- Acknowledgments.
ISBN:
9780762791361
Format :
Book