i couldn't afford to pay an expert to do the proof reading for me, so i am hoping to sell few copies then get someone to it.
some of the proceeds of the book will go to Algerian collective of the families of the disappeared (over 30.000 are still missing presumed dead)
please preview my book on-line download it or buy it,
this is my first ever project and i hope you find the book interesting.
thank you.
Troubled Mind
http://www.lulu.com/content/789885
to know more about Algeria's bloody civil war please check http://www.Algeria.watch.org
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Troubled Mind Book
@ 2007-04-17 – 02:12:15
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Troubled Mind Book by Renaud Sarda
@ 2007-04-17 – 00:54:24
To some, the disquieting pattern of the link between the current terrorists outrages, the attacks against the West may seemed to be the work of small fanatical groups, but to me the pattern, sadly, is the direct consequences of religion.
The sooner the West and Britain understands that its support for Muslim military regimes like Algeria, Iran and Pakistan, who suppress the democratic aspiration of their people, would only lead to dangerous Muslim radical leaders with inflated egos to brainwashed moderate Muslims by misinterpreting Islam as a political ideology and used it as tool to empower themselves.
I have experienced this great tragedy in my own country where the Algerian military regime relinquished its responsibility in housing, health, social services and education; the people turned somewhere else for support and help.
They found it in small subsidiary and radical Islamic groups who used Madrasses and mosques in their thousands across Le Bled (country).
These groups infested mosques and Islamic schools and exploited the name of Islam to teach a radical and bigoted message with a strict military-religious code to students.
They saw the West as sceptic and cynic regimes that were played like a fiddle by dictators in the Muslim world in ostensibly supporting the global war on terrorism subsequently keeping them off their back to continue denying human rights, arrests, killings and exile of political oppositions and journalists.
By siding with dictators in Algeria and Pakistan the West, notably the UK and the United States, have alienated all the young predisposed Muslims there who before 9/11 and 7/7 were united behind America and Britain and their values of liberty, tolerance, freedom of speech and tolerance of other faiths turned Islamism to a devastatingly die-hard fundamentalist creed.
This helped the Fundamentalists succeed in creating fanaticism, militancy, xenophobia and terrorism.
Those sucked into the religious movements ditch democracy and embrace the notion that Islam is a new political ideology.
Winston Churchill once put it:
“The appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
Lessons need to be learned and history has already showed us that only during periods of extreme crisis and injustice do fanatics gain authority from ordinary people.
A good example of this is the Treaty of Versailles, which destroyed and shamed post First World War Germany.
This saw Hitler and the Nazis feed the ensuing turmoil and use it to distort ordinary German minds’ with their dogma of hate.
The faster the West understands that Islam is seen as a political ideology to some in Britain and most in the Muslim world, the sooner people and politicians here can subject this ideology to the same scrutiny we require of political beliefs and values.
I feel certain that nothing will be resolved until people over here in the West remove their blinkers, alter their positions significantly and start addressing realistically what is going on with this multifaceted situation.
Our democracy is under threat because our leading politicians are letting us down, since none are brave enough to put their head on the block and deal with the tumult in the Middle East, the subjugation of the Palestinians, the Jewish people still living in Arab countries and the dislocation of radicalised Muslims within our society. We will be witnessing again on our TV screens heartbreaking scenes like the one of Marie Fatayi-Williams;
an anguished Nigerian mother who was watched worldwide by millions of individuals holding her son Anthony’s photo looking for information of his whereabouts after the 7/7 bombing of London by British born Muslims Extremists.
As a devout Christian married to a Muslim husband she asks:
Whose and what cause has been served?
Certainly not that of God, or Allah.
I serve a good and loving God, there is need for leaders to stop and listen to the led;
There is a need for each one of us to stop to rise up and identify with what our hearts tell us is right,
There is a need for peace and understanding in the world,
There is a need to work to attain and sustain these values,
As you cannot give what you not have.
The Arab hijackers in the planes, which crashed into the World Trade Centre, were recorded as screaming, ‘Allah el Akber’ (God is great), with seconds to spare before the impact, which killed over 3000 innocent people.
I would like to know:
How in Allah or God’s name could anyone justify a horrendous thing as to kill innocent people?
Anyone taking a rummage across any human rights website or Algeria Watch International will see list a litany of abuses and violations taking place inside my own country.The genocide recorded makes gruesome and distressing reading indeed and this despite all the boundaries and prohibition orders imposed on international reporters and humanitarian workers by the fraudulent Algerian military regime.
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Troubled Mind Book by Renaud Sarda
@ 2007-04-17 – 00:47:12
Even people who don't know about politics and religion know about the continuing bloody civil war in Algeria.
This is a story about how a boy-a mere young student in secondary school, like many others in Algerian-become attracted to the mucky world of politics at a very young age?
Was it because of his father clandestine political activities ?
Was it because of his religion?
Was is because of his Sephardic Jewish roots?
Or was it him responding to some grave abuses of human rights in his home country?
He understand that any book about Algerian history, politics and religion which challenges mainstream is risky primary for two reasons:
The first danger is that the book will become fuel for religious radicals, and second danger is that the book will be rejected by the Algerian military regime greatest source of delight lies in iconoclasm and denial.
Indeed the government brought a new legislation in seven chapters and was issue by decree-06-01 0f 28 Moharram 1427, on February 28, 2006 and in it's core article 46 which is quite undoubtedly quite ferocious in the manner which it hoped to halt all form of criticism. It prohibit all free expression that blamed or tarnish the Algerian 'corrupt' miltary state image abroad, anyone contravening will risk up to 5 years in jail and a fine of DA500,000.
This book is intended for neither guide to politics, history or beliefs and practice of religion. Troubled Mind is a true story about a young man who lived in Saida in the south-western Algeria where he grew up playing football for his home town football team.
He was taught politics from an early age by his late father who was associated with the Parti de l'Avant-Garde Socialiste (PAGS), a clandestine democratic movement, he himself joined at a later date.
His impact was immediate: his Mentor, a Marxist school French teacher and close friend, advised him to leave Algeria in 1983 for his own safety after the Algerian military service become monitoring his activities. He was prosecuted for his political beliefs, and fled his home country and began an angry quest which went on for years searching through the Quran, the Bible then the Torah to find peace of mind, a journey which led him to a troubled life.
What is really meant to discover to be a father, a Sephardic Jew, and finally, what it meant to be a burned out human rights activist ?
He was born in Algeria, but he spent over 22 years in his beloved Scotland where he graduated from Paisley University with a degree in law with politics.
