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By Omar Saif Ghobash

ISBN-10: 1250119847

ISBN-13: 9781250119841

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From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters to a tender Muslim, a daring and intimate exploration of what it potential to be a Muslim within the twenty-first century.

In a sequence of non-public letters to his son, Omar Saif Ghobash bargains a quick and hugely readable manifesto that tackles our present international difficulty with the learning of an skilled diplomat and the private accountability of a father. Today’s younger Muslims can be tomorrow’s leaders, and but too many are susceptible to extremist propaganda that turns out omnipresent in our technological age. The burning query, Ghobash argues, is how average Muslims can unite to discover a voice that's actual to Islam whereas actively and productively undertaking the trendy global. What does it suggest to be an outstanding Muslim?

What is the idea that of a very good existence? And is it applicable to face up and brazenly condemn those that take the Islamic religion and twist it to fit their very own erroneous political agendas? In taking a difficult examine those doubtless easy questions, Ghobash encourages his son to stand matters others insist are usually not suitable, no longer acceptable, or may also be Islamophobic. those letters function a clear-eyed idea for the following iteration of Muslims to appreciate how you can be devoted to their faith and nonetheless navigate throughout the complexities of today’s international. additionally they demonstrate an intimate glimpse right into a global many are strange with and supply to supply an figuring out of the typical struggles Muslims face round the globe.

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I remember thinking how little time I had spent with you. I thought back to my father and imagined the horror he must have felt as he realized that his life was slipping away from him. My siblings and I, your uncles and aunt, were all under the age of ten when your grandfather died. I look at you and I know how much more time I spend with you because of this fear, and even this is not enough. I am writing this book for you because I want you to have a piece of paper that will be there long after I am gone.

It is a warning for Muslims to stay away from places where there are not Muslim majorities, and it is an accusation in societies where everyone, including Muslims, are meant to be treated equally. We run away from places where we are told populations are Islamophobic. And we accuse democratic countries, where all are equal before the law, of being Islamophobic. What do you do if you are a young Muslim facing this phobia? Across the Arab world as well as in the United States and Western Europe, you will often hear that the bulk of the Muslim world is composed of peace-loving, moderate Muslims.

As you know, your grandfather Saif, my father, was killed in a terrorist attack in 1977. My father was forty-three when he died. When I was your age, I used to think that forty-three was a big number. Now that I have passed forty-three, I feel that life is only just beginning for me. Before I go on, let me tell you why nineteen was also such an important birthday for me. When I was twelve I discovered that the man who killed my father was nineteen when he did what he did. Nineteen. When I was twelve I asked myself whether I would be able to kill a man when I turned nineteen.

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