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The Blasphemer - The Price I Paid for Rejecting Islam (Hardcover)
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The Blasphemer - The Price I Paid for Rejecting Islam (Hardcover)
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The infuriating tale of a young Palestinian punished for exercising
his freedom of speech. Like many of his generation, Waleed
Al-Husseini began a blog in his twenties. However, unlike many,
Waleed also had the misfortune of having been a blogger in
Palestine; worse yet, he often criticized Islam and its adherentsÂ
and declared himself an apostate in his writings. The Palestinian
Authority did not take well to this and eventually put Waleed in
jail without a trial or even a wisp of legal justification. As if
this was not bad enough, they placed Waleed in solitary
confinement. This state of affairs continued for 11 months. Over
the course of this time, Waleed was tortured and suffered
innumerable indignities and deprivations simply for having the
audacity to speak his mind. Eventually his unjust imprisonment
began to draw international attention from foreign governments and
human rights organizations, which pressured the Palestinian
Authority and finally forced it to provide him a trial and parole.
After being paroled, Waleed fled Palestine, first to Jordan and
then to France, where he has become an outspoken advocate for
freedom of speech and a critic of the state of contemporary Islam.
The Blasphemer is a sobering, impassioned recounting of this
Kafkaesque experience as well as a searing polemic against the
corruption and hypocrisy that define contemporary Palestine.
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