Angela Blount’s Reviews > Son of Hamas > Status Update

“I loved my father so deeply, and I admired so much about who he was and what he stood for. But for a man who could not bring himself to harm an insect, he had obviously found a way to rationalize the idea that it was fine for somebody else to explode people into scraps of meat—as long as he didn’t personally bloody his hands.”

Ooof.

Just... wow.

“But my conscience was being rewired. Though not yet a Christian, I was really trying to follow the ethical teachings of Jesus. Allah had no problem with murder. In fact, he insisted on it. But Jesus held me to a much higher standard, and now I found I couldn’t kill even a terrorist.”

"Tit for tat, the reciprocal killing continued. An eye for an eye—and there was no shortage of eyes."

"In the weeks to follow, the Shin Bet would begin searching for lessons to be found in the rubble of what would come to be known simply as 9/11. Why had the U.S. intelligence services not been able to prevent the disaster? For one thing, they operated independently and competitively. For another, they relied mostly on technology and rarely collaborated with terrorists."