My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind---and Doubt Freed My Soul

About this book

Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite a revolution and blow apart the structures of ignorance and politicized indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind. Part memoir part passionate call for liberty reason and doing work that matters My Isl@m tells the tale of how the internet opened the eyes and heart of a once fearful young Muslim to a world beyond the dogmatism of his upbringing and recounts his transformation into a defiant digital activist. In his honest provocative and courageous debut Nasra popular Afro-Arab Sudanese bloggersteps out from behind the curtain of anonymity and emerges as a voice of a new generation of tech-savvy liberal Muslims. Set in war-ravaged Sudan oil-rich Qatar multi-cultural Malaysia the United States Turkey and the new frontiers of cyberspace My Isl@m is a fascinating prelude to the Arab Spring and a disarming and uplifting tale of doubt soul-searching Islam and finding freedom in the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world. A poignant honest and uplifting memoir of how blogging and the internet opened the eyes and heart of one young Muslim man to a world beyond his religious fundamentalist upbringing.