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Book Summary: Fakeer Ali
Through his ground-breaking memoir, Fakeer Ali, a self-proclaimed "anti-errorist," launches a gentle jihad on our collective ignorance and misinformation regarding Moslems and Islam in general.

A radicalized storyteller, Fakeer first kidnaps you and holds you hostage in his phantasmagorical dream-world. He then smuggles you back and forth from this fantastical realm to extreme, undisclosed locations of his mind where heartfelt memories of growing up as an American Muslim are stored.

After keeping you captive for some time, Fakeer Ali will finally demand a payment for your release. The price that will be extorted from you, however, will be nothing more than a smile and a clear
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