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There’s a reason that murderous hatred has to be taught � and not just taught but forcibly implanted... It is a lie told over and over again � often to people who have no resources and who are denied alternative views of the world. It’s a lie my father believed, and one he hoped to pass on to me.


A highly interesting and personal story of a young man whose father became an Islamic terrorist. In 1990 his father shot and killed a rabbi, Meir Kahane. The author was seven years old at the time.

His father was from Egypt and married an American woman � the author was born in the U.S. in 1983. From prison his father conspired with other Islamic terrorists in the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.

When queried by his son the father constantly lied or obfuscated about his involvement in these terrorist crimes. The son never became like his father. With his mother and siblings they struggled to survive and moved numerous times after his father’s incarceration. His mother remarried - and this man was abusive to his wife and children. The author had many reasons to embrace radical Islam � but always kept his mind open. He became more and more aware of the diversity he found in his country. He expressed and found empathy, instead of hatred, for others.



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When I was a kid, I never questioned what I heard at home or at school or the mosque. Bigotry just kind of slipped into my system along with everything else: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Pi equals 3.14. All Jews are evil and homosexuality is an abomination. Paris is the capital of France. They all sounded like facts. ..I was made to fear people who were different and kept away from them as much as possible for my own “protection�... I never got close enough to find out if I should fear them in the first place.


This is a touching story of how this young boy grew up and extracted himself from the seeds of hatred.

This is a short book and highly recommended. There is a TED talk by the author