I don’t need to BUY a book to understand why they do what they do. I already know. Their beloved Koran tells them to kill the infidels and anyone who isn’t Muslim is an infidel - “especially Americans”.
No doubt a fatwa has already been issued for his head. Betraying the umma and letting the truth about Islam out is a serious no-no.
I don’t need a book to explain what I learned on September 1st, 2001.
Is it because they're young? Is it because they're British? Gee, there must be SOME reason. What on earth could it be?
a guy who was in the iran/syria supported terrorist group from southern lebanon (forget their moment right now) left and converted to christianity and now does speaking tours about the dangers of islam.
Leaving Islam results in you being branded a “heretic.” The punishment is death.
A few references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Islamist
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2073365,00.html
...By the time he attends Tower Hamlets College, he has become leader of the influential Islamic society, bringing hardline homophobic and anti-semitic speakers in to lead debates such as ‘Hijab: put up or shut up’. Husain turns to the more militant Hizb ut-Tahrir: successful, articulate professionals reinforce his nascent views. He spends two years involved with a Hizb cell. Friends who disappear to training camps later become key figures in al-Qaeda.
In the end, it is Islamism’s disregard for Islam itself that moves him to reject fundamentalism. ‘True faith had not touched my heart in a decade,’ he says.
Husain is appalled at the way unelected and unaccountable Islamist groups are portrayed by the media as representative. This captivating, and terrifyingly honest, book is his attempt to make amends for some of the wrongs he committed. In a wake-up call to monocultural Britain, it takes you into the mind of young fundamentalists, exposing places in which the old notion of being British is defunct.
...An ideology is in the business of aggrandising those who subscribe to it, and Husain was soon assured that he was vastly superior to pretty well everyone, all women (“women are the plague”), all Jews (of course), all kafirs (or koofs), and all “partial Muslims”, such as his mother and father (soon to be jettisoned).
...Two events disabused him. One was a killing. “The fucking Christian niggers need to be taught a lesson,” argued a colleague, after a dispute at Tower Hamlets College (the dispute was about the use of a pool table); and Husain duly sees the black boy lying in a pool of blood. The second event had to do with a woman, his future wife: “Of the many faces I encountered on a daily basis there was one belonging to a girl called Faye that did what mine used to do a lot: smile. As an Islamist I had lost my ability to smile.”
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I hope this guy can buy some protection from the royalties that he makes...