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A review by clairealex
Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five by Miko Peled
5.0
This book tells the saga of what we expected after 9/11 and the Patriot Act frenzy, only it is worse than we could have imagined. The allowance of prejudicial information and disallowance of exculpatory information at trial; the use of unknowledgeable "experts"; the use of mistranslations--these abound. It is a pro-Palestinian story told by an Israeli-American who lost a niece to a suicide bomber. If anyone has a reason to skew the story against the five men, he does. Yet he does not.
It is an explanation of the Muslim faith that should break the western stereotypical version. The contrast between the meaning to native Arabic speakers and western dictionaries of the word "jihad" is an important reminder to see beyond cultural expectations.
Peled tells his own story in The General's Son, and there is a fictional version of the reconciliation project resulting from the niece's death in the novel Apeirogon.
It is an explanation of the Muslim faith that should break the western stereotypical version. The contrast between the meaning to native Arabic speakers and western dictionaries of the word "jihad" is an important reminder to see beyond cultural expectations.
Peled tells his own story in The General's Son, and there is a fictional version of the reconciliation project resulting from the niece's death in the novel Apeirogon.