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About this book
"My name is Irfan Yusuf, so anything I do will, naturally, be presumed to be some kind of deception or cover. I am part of some giant conspiracy to destroy the West, one of Osama bin Ladin' s henchmen. I am part of the Muslim Question."
What happens when a nice Muslim Australian boy considers joining the jihad in Afghanistan? Irfan Yusuf grew up in John Winston Howard's electorate in the leafy suburbs of Sydney. He should have been thinking about girls and cars, but instead became convinced he should die for a Muslim cause. And in the process he discovered he couldn't learn the Koran from dim-headed blokes brandishing sticks, and he couldn't quite stomach extra-halal meat killed on an uncle's farm. Once Were Radicals is a hilarious, irreverent memoir of cultural confusions, community politics, and outright mischief making—with a deeper message.
What happens when a nice Muslim Australian boy considers joining the jihad in Afghanistan? Irfan Yusuf grew up in John Winston Howard's electorate in the leafy suburbs of Sydney. He should have been thinking about girls and cars, but instead became convinced he should die for a Muslim cause. And in the process he discovered he couldn't learn the Koran from dim-headed blokes brandishing sticks, and he couldn't quite stomach extra-halal meat killed on an uncle's farm. Once Were Radicals is a hilarious, irreverent memoir of cultural confusions, community politics, and outright mischief making—with a deeper message.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1: Cultural Islam and spicy pilgrimages
- 2: Karachi culture shock
- 3: Jewish brothers and Bollywood love
- 4: Theology without scars
- 5: Faiths, doubts and politics
- 6: The Islamic industry and the Holy Trinity
- 7: Discovering Islam and jihad
- 8: The three non-Anglican musketeers
- 9: Becoming and unbecoming a hijab messenger
- 10: Fatwas and fanatical uncles
- 11: Putting political Islam into practice … well, sort of
- 12: Final flirtations with political Islam
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Further reading