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Penguin Books
My year inside Radical Islam
Wydawnictwo:
Penguin Books
Oprawa: Miękka
Opis
Born into a spiritually ambiguous family (his parents are nonpracticing Jews who follow the "Infinite Way") Gartenstein-Ross grew up in the 1980s, in Ashland, Ore., a bucolic, posthippie paradise with a live-and-let-live ethic. Spiritually adrift through his teens, he discovers Islam through a classmate at Wake Forest University. Gartenstein-Ross?young and searching, like so many Americans of his socioeconomic class?quickly falls under the spell of fiercely committed Muslims. He begins working for al Harman, a radical Islamic charity that would eventually be linked to al-Qaeda, and soon starts a simultaneous process of being drawn deeper into the world of radical Islam and being repulsed by its brutal realities. Gartenstein-Ross fights an inner battle between his idealism, shaped by his socially conscious if somewhat scattered liberal upbringing, and his sense of the growing gap between his personal notion of Islam and the mounting list of rules and limitations its practice entails. This would seem compelling stuff, but throughout the story seems blunted. Even the chapters near the end that deal with Gartenstein-Ross's role as an informer for the FBI after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, lack tension and real insight into the dilemma faced by so many cut adrift in Western secular culture.
Szczegóły
Rok wydania
2008
Oprawa
Miękka
Ilość stron
296
Format
14.0x21.0cm
Języki
angielski
ISBN
978-15-85426-11-9
Rodzaj
Książka
EAN
9781585426119
Data premiery
2008-02-12
Kraj produkcji
GB
Producent
Penguin Books Limited
Podmiot odpowiedzialny
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
Nassau Street 32 Morrison Chambers
Dublin
IE
www.penguin.co.uk
Dublin
IE
www.penguin.co.uk
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