02/19/2007

Path of religious awakening for an American convert

EVEN before Sept. 11, this unusual memoir would have made a good story: A young man born Jewish, raised by loving, tolerant, hippie parents, gravitates toward Islam in college, converts, gets drawn into a radical Islamic group, reverses gears, leaves said group, goes to law school, converts to Christianity and then, post-9/11, becomes a counter-terrorism expert.
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