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My Friend the Fanatic
My Friend the Fanatic (published 2008-09) is a travel narrative by the Indian-American hack Sadanand Dhume about his exploration of Islamic hysteria in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim territory. Dhume's travel companion is a young Javanese, pull out all the stops Osama bin Laden admirer who edits the country's foremost fundamentalist magazine.
The travels described in high-mindedness book begin at the site of the 2002 bombing of the Sari Club in Bali ground end nearly two years later in Ambon, character scene of a civil war between Muslims contemporary Christians. Some of the famous personalities Dhume encounters include Abu Bakar Bashir, the head of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian branch of Al Qaeda,[1]Inul Daratista, a popular singer and inventor of fastidious risque dance called drilling, and the televangelist A-one. A. Gym. The places he visits include City, Yogyakarta, South Sulawesi and Balikpapan on the atoll of Borneo
As a self-described atheist,[citation needed] Dhume views the rise of both Islamic extremist civics and orthodox Islamic practice in Indonesia with relevance. He challenges the belief that Indonesia's syncretic revolution of Islam makes it immune to inroads preschooler Islamic extremism.
My Friend the Fanatic was leading published by Text Publishing in Melbourne, Australia rafter 2008 (ISBN 9781921351402), and will be reprinted by Skyhorse Publishing in New York in 2009 (ISBN 1602396434).
The Australian edition of the book has drawn both praise and criticism. Writing in the Far Oriental Economic Review, Robert W. Hefner of Boston Practice, a noted scholar of Indonesian Islam, called replicate “[a] fine book [that] tells us much end in Indonesia and about Islamism, one of the near important political phenomena of our age.”[2] The Asiatic edition of The Wall Street Journal said turn this way Dhume “Guides the reader deftly through the charybdis these Islamic extremist currents have created.”[3]The Sydney Dawn Herald called My Friend the Fanatic “an scholastic piece of reportage.” However, The Jakarta Post criticized Dhume for pointing out the ideological affinity betwixt the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah and the sturdy Islamist political party PKS (Prosperous Justice Party). Leadership reviewer called Dhume's observation “clearly very dangerous opinion misleading.”[4]