A jihad for love
El Bachiri, Mohamed2017
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Mohamed El Bachiri is a Muslim. He lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels bombing of March 2016 - a young woman murdered by a fanatical jihadist. Mohamed was left to bring up their three sons on his own. Instead of hating or collapsing into grief, he put together a short book of reflections on love, loss and the ways in which we can live together despite differences of religion and ideology. It is a plea for tolerance and compassion, a rejection of fanaticism, and it is a heartbreaking book. Mohamed El Bachiri shows how an argument for treating each other with kindness and respect can survive even the most brutal atrocity. For him, Islam should be a struggle for love, and the struggle for love should involve us all.
Main title:
A jihad for love / Mohamed El Bachiri with David van Reybrouck ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
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Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2017.
Collation:
95 pages ; 17 cm
ISBN:
9781786698001 (pbk)
Dewey class:
201.5
LC class:
BL410
Local class:
201.5
Language:
EnglishDutch
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BRN:
2032171