Table of Contents
Prologue ix
On the Paris Attacks of November 13, 2015 xvii
Preface to the US Edition xix
Foreword Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK xxix
Part 1 B-Boy
1 Memories of the Ghost Train 3
2 This Game's Not for Palds 13
3 The Doctor Who Said "Fuck tha Police" 19
5 The Stranger Stabbed for Me 27
5 The Green Backpack with No Bomb 37
6 When Babri Mosque Fell in India 45
7 A Land Where Fetuses Are Cut from Wombs 55
Part 2 Islamist
8 An Islamist Takeover 65
9 12,000 Muslims Screaming "Khilafah" 69
10 Servant of the Compeller 75
11 The Womb That Bore Me 81
12 A Show of Hands to Harden the Heart 87
13 The Romanticism of Struggle 91
14 Dreams of a Nuclear Caliphate 97
15 Caliphs in Copenhagen 107
16 The Polemic 113
17 Welcome to Egypt: We Do As We Please 127
18 The Ghimarnah Has No Rules 135
19 Number Forty-Two 145
20 Assalaamu Alaykum, You've Just Come out of Hell 151
21 The Luxury of an Audience 157
22 The Penguin Is Hit by Slippers 163
23 "Monocracy" 171
Part 3 Radical
24 Where the Heart Leads, the Mind Can Follow 181
25 No Right to Silence 193
26 How Many Years Did You Fail? 199
27 Civil-Democratic Intimidation 209
28 The Decade-Late Apology 215
29 Monkeys in a Zoo 225
30 Visiting No. 10 231
31 Khudi Pakistan 235
32 I Will See Your Day When It Comes 243
Postscript 249
Epilogue: Ideas Are Bulletproof (2013) 257
Glossary of Arabic Terms 267
Resources 269
Acknowledgments 273