Zacarias, My Brother: The Making of a Terrorist

by Florence Bouquillat and Abd Samad Moussaoui

Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in the United States in August 2001. He is currently in a federal prison in Virginia, charged with "conspiring with Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to murder thousands of innocent people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania." Moussaoui, who trained to be a pilot in Oklahoma, admits to being a member of Al-Qaeda but denies involvement in the events of September 11. He has opted to defend himself.
Written by his brother, Zacarias, My Brother tells the story of Zac's life from birth to the time in 1996 when he broke contact with his family and became deeply involved with Muslim fundamentalists in London. It is a unique document about what it is to grow up a Muslim in Western Europe today and how an extremist is made. In Zacarias, My Brother, author Abd Samad Moussaoui describes the struggle that young Arab men and their families endure in Europe, seeking an education and equal opportunity, only to find most avenues of assimilation effectively barred to people of color. At the same time, he authoritatively details the techniques of the extremist sects that recruit potential terrorist cadres. Members of the Wahhabi sect have perfected a rhetoric that appeals to the wounded pride of these young Arab men, Moussaoui writes--for example, offering funds to help them complete their education. Moussaoui deplores the route taken by his brother. He is not in any way an apologist for terrorism. Even so, he shows convincingly that normal young men can end up terrorists, and suggests how and why this happens. Moussaoui shows with gripping clarity how Wahhabism distorts true Islamic faith and the threat it poses to Islam. And his book strongly suggests that the best defense against terrorist groups like the Wahhabi sect in the future is anything people can do to end racism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583225854
• ISBN13: 9781583225851
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

But for the grace of God...

This is a moving and even beautiful book, which chronicles the childhood and youth of a disfunctional Moroccan immigrant family in France, who would never have come to our attention had x not succumbed to the Islamo-fascist Wahhabi cult, and hence become one of the planners of the World Trade Centre murders. He is frighteningly but believably portrayed as a kind and decent man with a belief in justice, who was tragically led onto a wrong path with an ease that reminds us that there, but for the grace of God, could go anyone of us.

wow great book !!

realy nice book , it show how wahhabies are missguided and that they are the soure of terrorism .......it also show how wahhabies take advantage of people who dont have knowledge in the arabic language , poor people .. and how they make from them source of terror for evryone wahhabism will be gone soon " in sha'a Allah " , even the country that used 2 help them are now fighting them (Y) i realy appreciate it !!