Holy Warrior: Afghani Peril

The book is largely fiction, but it is interesting how fiction is so often parallel to events and people in real life. This book will surprise you, and it will challenge you. Afghani Peril is about a clash of cultures and their underlying values. But it is much more than that.

It is about a clash between the truth and generations of lies, half truths and malice that brings the nations of the earth to where they are now. It is about human drama, about suffering and malevolent hatred of one people for another. It is between good and an ancient evil almost as old as human history itself.

But it is also about the human struggle to find meaning, and to live honorably in a world of contradictions and tests of loyalty. It is about examing one's own traditions. It is about loneliness and despair, and in the midst of all that, it is about redemption. It is about friendship and geopolitical entangling alliances that ultimately affects our very existence.

It is about Farouq Abdul Hadid and Barton Webber, two men who it would seem are half a world apart and who would seem to have very little in common. Yet, in the end they share much of the same heart. It is about coming of age and finding oneself standing apart. It is about mistakes and failure, but about courage and rising above. It is about hope in the face of bleakness of battle.

It is about walking away when standing fails and when no one listens and blindness is the chosen path of your leaders. This book will haunt you, challenge you, but it will change you if you listen and take heed of its lessons.

The book is about the formation of the Islamic Jihadist movement, its modern origins and the mistakes the US and the western world that aided and abetted it's getting revived and launched onto an unsuspecting world. It is just a taste of what came to be of the movement that is upon us now.