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The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
Free Press
October 2011
On Sale: October 4, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 1451609213
EAN: 9781451609219
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Imagine a world where a boy’s dreams dictate the behavior of
warriors in battle; where a young couple’s only release from
forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind
hatred, and endemic corruption combine to form a lethal
ideology that can hijack a man’s life forever. This is the
world of Terrorists in Love. A former federal prosecutor and congressional investigator,
Ken Ballen spent five years as a pollster and a researcher
with rare access—via local government officials,
journalists, and clerics—interviewing more than a hundred
Islamic radicals, asking them searching questions about
their inner lives, deepest faith, and what it was that
ultimately drove them to jihad. Intimate and enlightening,
Terrorists in Love opens a fresh window into the realm of
violent extremism as Ballen profiles six of these men—from
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia—revealing a universe
of militancy so strange that it seems suffused with magical
realism. Mystical dreams and visions, the demonic figure of the
United States, intense sexual repression, crumbling family
and tribal structures—the story that emerges here is both
shocking and breathtakingly complex. Terrorists in Love
introduces us to men like Ahmad Al-Shayea, an Al Qaeda
suicide bomber who survives his attack only to become
fiercely pro-American; Zeddy, who trains terrorists while
being paid by America’s ally, the Pakistani Army; and Malik,
Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s personal seer. Lifting the veil
on the mysterious world of Muslim holy warriors, Ballen
probes these men’s deepest secrets, revealing the
motivations behind their deadly missions and delivering a
startling new exploration of what drives them to violence
and why there is yet an unexpected hope for peace. An
extraordinarily gifted listener and storyteller, Ballen
takes us where no one has dared to go—deep into the secret
heart of Islamic fundamentalism, providing a glimpse at the
lives, loves, frustrations, and methods of those whose
mission it is to destroy us.
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