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• As I write this in the spring of 2018 there are still plenty of men like Yasser Kamal out there, tens of thousands across the globe. Their anger towards the West runs deep. They see Islam under threat. They embrace radical interpretations of their religion that justify violence against anyone they deem not to be a true Muslim. And that includes mil...
• The Durranis knew no country as their own; we were a polyglottic clan for whom the adventure of new opportunities trumped the security of the familiar.
• Being proud Sunnis was – and is – as much part of our heritage as being indefatigable travellers.
• I eventually found companionship and solace in an unlikely place: the six volumes and 4,000 pages of Sayyid Qutb’s In the Shade of the Koran.
• Qutb, the founding father of modern jihad and of a radical and profound interpretation of Islam, had written the book in times of pain and hardship, when he had been tortured in Egyptian jails in the 1950s and 1960s. I related to the suffering as much as the scholarship and the beauty of his writing. It took me two years to finish his masterwork. B...