| Description |
xxvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface to the US Edition -- Foreword / Kate Allen -- Prologue -- Part 1. B-Boy -- 1. Memories of the Ghost Train -- 2. This Game's Not for Pakis -- 3. The Doctor Who Said "Fuck tha Police" -- 4. The Stranger Stabbed for Me -- 5. The Green Backpack with No Bomb -- 6. When Babri Mosque Fell in India -- 7. A Land Where Fetuses Are Cut from Wombs -- Part 2. Islamist -- 8. An Islamist Takeover -- 9. 12,000 Muslims Screaming "Khilafah" -- 10. Servant of the Compeller -- 11. The Womb That Bore Me -- 12. A Show of Hands to Harden the Heart -- 13. The Romanticism of Struggle -- 14. Dreams of a Nuclear Caliphate -- 15. Caliphs in Copenhagen -- 16. The Polemic -- 17. Welcome to Egypt: We Do As We Please -- 18. The Ghimamah Has No Rules -- 19. Number Forty-Two -- 20. Assalaamu Alaykum, You've Just Come out of Hell -- 21. The Luxury of an Audience -- 22. The Penguin Is Hit by Slippers -- 23. "Monocracy" -- Part 3. Radical -- 24. Where the Heart Leads, the Mind Can Follow -- 25. No Right to Silence -- 26. How Many Years Did You Fail? -- 27. Civil-Democratic Intimidation -- 28. The Decade-Late Apology -- 29. Monkeys in a Zoo -- 30. Visiting No. 10 -- 31. Khudi Pakistan -- 32. I Will See Your Day When It Comes -- Postscript -- Epilogue: Ideas Are Bulletproof (2013) -- Glossary of Arabic Terms -- Resources -- Acknowledgments. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Nawaz, Maajid.
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Muslims -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Extremists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Islamic fundamentalism -- Great Britain.
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| ISBN |
9780762791361 |
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0762791365 |
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