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John Sendel is a typical teenager. The kind that snap and would start shooting at their school. He is part of a generation reared by television in the nineties with absentee or loveless parents, cynical, and willing to wield the impetuousness of youth in a self-destructive manner. But Johnny stumbles onto fundamentalist Islam through his friend Salim, and finds a new outlet to channel his rebellious angst. He cannot but admire these people with an actual purpose in life and something to believe in. The facets of Johnny's humdrum existence in suburbia begin to fade, his life now has a purpose: jihad. However, the deeper he gets enmeshed, the more frightening the road becomes with no possibility of return. When the CIA gets hold of him, things take an ugly turn. Based on true facts of training camps run in the U.S. and inspired by the stories of John Walker Lindh and others...Chillingly real and hotly topical.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Samuel Rutherford
reviewed Johnny Jihad on June 27, 2019
Johnny Jihad
I feel like this story had so much more potential. For a book all about the conversion of a typical American Joe to an extremist Islamic terrorist, we get surprisingly little about his actual beliefs. A few panels on how he read the Koran cover to cover and how Islam had all the answers and absolutely no story showing this, no examples of his thinking changing, no attempts at personal growth, no descriptions of Islam benefiting him an literally anyway. He went from zero to 20 thousand and then back to zero immediately. Johnny's not an idiot, he learns three languages and manages to crash course a bunch of other information, but storywise, we don't really get to see his brain working. I get that happy, peaceful Islam isn't the story that this book is telling but going the whole route without a single example of a moderate, reasonable Muslim thought process just seems weird.
The art style is very beautiful though, all brutal crosshatching and engraving. Love that.
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