An extraordinary tale, nothing you’ve seen prior told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes lifestyle of an American boy raised by his terrorist father-the guy who planned the 1993 Globe Trade Middle bombing.

What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your house? Zak Ebrahim was just seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and wiped out the leader from the Jewish Protection Group. While in jail, Nosair helped strategy the bombing of the Globe Trade Middle in 1993. In another of his about The Terrorist’s Boy: A TALE of Choice infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to “Keep in mind El-Sayyid Nosair.”

For Zak Ebrahim, a childhood amongst terrorism was all he knew. After his father’s incarceration, his family moved often, so that as the perpetual fresh kid in class, he faced continuous teasing and exclusion. Yet, though his radicalized father and uncles modeled fanatical beliefs, to Ebrahim something never felt right. Towards the shy, awkward youngster, something about the hateful emotions just sensed unnatural.

Within this book, Ebrahim dispels the myth that terrorism is a formality for people trained to hate. Predicated on his own remarkable journey, he demonstrates hate is generally a choice-but therefore is normally tolerance. Though Ebrahim was subjected to a violent, intolerant ideology throughout his years as a child, he didn’t become radicalized. Ebrahim argues that people conditioned to be terrorists are actually well situated to fight terrorism, because of their ability to bring apparently incompatible ideologies jointly in discussion and advocate in the battle for peacefulness. Ebrahim argues that everyone, irrespective of their upbringing or situations, can figure out how to tap into their natural empathy and embrace tolerance over hatred. His unique, urgent message is certainly fresh, groundbreaking, and essential to the current dialogue about terrorism.