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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (August 26, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393081583
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393081589
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
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*Starred Review* After a harrowing experience with her father in his Algerian home, activist and law professor Bennoune felt compelled to interview Muslims who are bravely standing up to Islamist groups. Her geographic range is vast, including France, Egypt, Senegal, Russia, Mali, and beyond. She spoke with theater owners under threat of suicide bombers in Pakistan, museum curators who risked all to save Afghani cultural treasures, and television producers from Algeria who were nearly killed for presenting a popular program. Her interviews sear with passion as her subjects deconstruct false views of Islam and inaccurate readings of the Qur’an. Again and again, Bennoune shines a spotlight on those who battle with intelligence and creativity against guns and bloodlust. She has created a significant and compelling record of modern life in which she spares no one, from the right wing to the left. This is life on the front lines in a world that Westerners all too often willfully define with inaccurate generalities. Bennoune insists that readers see the hearts and souls of those who are fighting for their countries and hear Muslims who say, “If we bow down to the Islamists . . . then there will be nothing. We’ll just be sitting in a dark corner.” --Colleen Mondor

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“A powerful and captivating tribute to those brave women and men who have stood up to fundamentalist violence in their own countries from Afghanistan to Mali, this book will hopefully inspire a new and improved international human rights response.” (Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)

“This work redefines courage in a humbling dimension. Bennoune’s meticulous testament serves as a warning to the complacent and rebukes ‘politically correct’ posturing that makes excuses for the inexcusable and canvasses tolerance for the intolerable.” (Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature)

“Courageous and passionate, illuminating the confiscated lives of secularists, religious minorities, and Muslims alike. Yet what is striking is not their victimhood but their resilience and resistance—that is where hope lies.” (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran)

“For too long, these types of voices, those Muslims who stand for individual freedom, debate, creativity, and compassion, have been ignored. But if we are ever to defeat the extremists, the counter narratives they provide to the distorted version of Islam need to be heard loud and clear.” (Ali Soufan, author of The Black Banners)

“Bennoune, and those she profiles, bravely meets the tide of extremism with a sense of shared community and nonviolent purpose.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Starred review. Her interviews sear with passion as her subjects deconstruct false views of Islam and inaccurate readings of the Qur’an. Again and again, Bennoune shines a spotlight on those who battle with intelligence and creativity against guns and bloodlust. She has created a significant and compelling record of modern life in which she spares no one, from the right wing to the left.” (Booklist)

“A fascinating and often heartbreaking read… Bennoune’s writing is crisp and conversational, and she possesses a deft sense of how to clearly deconstruct the most ingrained American arguments about violence in the name of Islam.” (Lorraine Ali - Los Angeles Times)

“A compelling, meticulously researched account of the legions of Muslims whose struggles against fundamentalist violence are almost never reported in our media…. Required reading.” (Rachel Newcomb - Washington Post)

“A must read for anyone who wants to really understand the role of Muslim fundamentalism and women's rights.” (Nancy Graham Holm - Huffington Post)

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This book should be required reading in every school.
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This is beautifully written, both inspiring and wrenching.
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Her book is well written and immaculately researched.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful By Siochain40771 on September 17, 2013
Format: Hardcover
As an avid reader of the Economist, on August 31, 2013, I came across a review for, "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here" by Karima Bennoune, which piqued my interest. The reviewer for the Economist wrote, "Her reporting is diligent, passionate and convincing. With courage and empathy, she takes readers to hardscrabble streets where Islamist militias unleashed a wave of almost indiscriminate butchery. She meets a woman who lost her husband and then six of her nine children; a newspaper publisher who returned from a funeral to find his offices blown up but still puts out a paper the next day; a nurse who lies at home helplessly after being paralyzed by a rocket attack."

I bought Ms. Bennoune's book and was not disappointed. The stories were deeply moving and shined a light on a struggle that brave, everyday people from all walks of life are fighting in order to defeat the terror of violence that is the calling card of radical fundamentalism. The book is poetic, historical and deeply moving. I recommend putting "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply here" on your must read reading list.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful By Edward J. Deisley on September 21, 2013
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bennoune does a great job decribing what most of us in the west do not realize goes on as moderate muslims fight against the radical who get all the press attention due to their violent acts; a story that needs to be more widely understood; i have had fortune to visit many of the places she describes esp timbucto where i was able to go about a year before all the recent problems; remember being in a crowd of some thousands of locals being one of only five caucasians there; at worse we were ignored & at best treated very friendy; never felt threatened & i only saw one policeman the whole time who did not have a gun; it is inconievable what supposed religious muslims have done to that city that has so much muslim culture & history; some day the moderates have to overcome these fanatics who kill more of their own fellow muslims than they do the hated westerners; a very worthwhile read which i highly recomend
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful By J. Rose on October 25, 2013
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Bennoune addresses something that has troubled me since before 9/11--where are the moderate Muslims and why are they not more vocal about their response to terrorism. Her book is well written and immaculately researched. Should be mandatory reading in poli sci classes and by anyone who has the same curiosity that I did.
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17 of 24 people found the following review helpful By Danusha V. Goska on January 2, 2014
Format: Hardcover
At first glance, Karima Bennoune's "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism" might look, to the naïve reader, like the statement all America has been waiting for since September 11, 2001. Finally, a "moderate Muslim" speaks out against Muslim terrorism.

Bennoune grew up in Algeria and the US. She identifies with Muslim culture, though she is an agnostic. She condemns Al Qaeda unequivocally: "I hate Al Qaeda" (267). She condemns Muslims for "whitewashing" their message by saying one thing in English and another in Arabic (17). She despises "left-wingers who have been drinking a certain kind of multicultural Kool-Aid" who "tell us how great … Sharia really is or can be if you just reinterpret it a little" (19-20). She critiques CAIR (221). She sneers at Pakistani conspiracy theories that attribute Taliban atrocities to Americans, Hindus, and Jews (243). She insists that US drone attacks do not justify Taliban killings (247). She sniffs at invocations of Edward Said's concept of "orientalism" to muffle criticism of terrorism (249). She rejects the idea that Islamic supremacists should be invited to participate in national life on the basis of tolerance and diversity, since they reject tolerance and diversity, and their inclusion would result in "One man, one vote, one time" (294-5). "'Compromise with Political Islam is Impossible,'" she quotes, approvingly (341). She records in heart-wrenching detail the hideous, massive, and inexcusable suffering Muslim terror has wreaked on the lives of Muslims from North Africa to South Asia.

"Fatwa" is published by WW Norton, a respected academic and popular publisher.
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I greatly appreciated both the geographic breadth and the detailed descriptions of the resistance by individual Muslims to radical Muslim intimidation and terror. I found Ms. Bennoune's description of her own family's struggles particularly poignant. To struggle long and hard for Algerian independence only to face an ongoing struggle against an inept government and now religious extremism is truly sad.
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Format: Paperback
This is an important book, but one difficult to read, as the litany of stories becomes numbing. But, having started, a reader owes it to the tellers of these stories to read through them - every single one of them.

An earlier review does a quite brilliant job of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the author's argument, so I won't even go there.

However, this read, of hundreds of stories it would seem, is a testament to three possible approaches that come to mind; and very liberal, progressive readers of this review will find what I say anathema.

Keeping the resistance to islamic fundamentalists to the realm of words and other non-violent means of protest is all well and good. But an entire realm of attack using words and ideas is not mentioned as a possibility to counter fundamentalist ideas. Thinking people in Muslim majority countries should turn the tables on the fundamentalists using their own language. They should be called everywhere "criminals" of the lowest order, using modifying terms that are the most insulting in the muslim lexicon. Such creatures as murder innocents while hiding behind the fictions of islamic tenents should be called out as the worst of the worst - apostates, pigs, whale excrement on the bottom of the ocean, not even human. Attack them and their behavior everywhere, dehumanizing them; issue your own fatwas denying their seventy two virgins upon martyring - whatever it takes. But ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK. How many loved ones are worth not doing this?

Secondly, it is clear that once again, mass murders happen in failed states because they CAN happen with impunity. Only state agents and criminals - and fundamentalists who perpetrate murder should be called out as criminals - have firearms. Oh, my, here we go.
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