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For once, I’d like to read a book about Syria that doesn’t radicalize and hate on Islam. Come on. Two chapters in and the author is already speaking condescendingly about scholars of tafsir and his religious dad.
— Dec 10, 2024 10:43PM
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Opened the first page and I’m fighting back tears. I will NEVER forget what Bashar Al Assad has put my Syrian brothers and sisters through. NEVER.
I see every Syrian I know and love in the words of these books
— Dec 10, 2024 05:22AM
I see every Syrian I know and love in the words of these books
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Dec 10, 2024 10:44PM
Might be a DNF if it continues this way. What a waste of beautiful prose.
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That's incredibly disappointing. Hating on Islam is popular though, and depending on who his intended audience was, could attract more positive reviews.
N/A wrote: "Yikes, I will need to bin it"bin it, it's not looking too good. should've known it would have some islamophobia in it, all books about ISIS in Syria do, sigh
Delilah wrote: "That's incredibly disappointing. Hating on Islam is popular though..."true :( this has pretty high ratings by non-muslims. what shocks me is the author is both syrian and muslim. however, he romanticises western ideologies and paints islam in a very untrue & strict light. i think he has a vendetta against islam because ISIS took over his hometown, Raqqa
I encounter this in so many fictinional or autobiographical works of supposed ''Muslims'', I call it ''The Kite Runner phenomenom''. The only book I have personally encountered that was completely free of this was ''The Thorn and The Carnation'' by Yahya Sinwar, Allah yarhamo.
@pally loooolll I missed your tomatoes 😭🩷🌸
@Umm Isa, I didn’t know he wrote a book, barakAllahu feeki for telling me, may Allah have mercy on his soul 🩷🌸 but yes you’re 100% right!! I used to say “never read books about conflicts in Arab/Muslim countries if it’s written by a white person” but now I realize even Arabs/Muslims themselves are demonizing Islam subhanAllah 💔
