Once Were Radicals: My years as a teenage Islamo-fascist

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What happens when a nice Muslim Australian boy considers joining the jihad in Afghanistan Irfan Yusuf grew up in John Winston Howard's electorate in the leafy suburbs of Sydney. He should have been thinking about girls and cars, but instead became convinced he should die for a Muslim cause. And in the process he discovered he couldn't learn the Koran from boofy-headed blokes brandishing sticks, and he couldn't quite stomach extra-halal meat killed on an uncle's farm. Once Were Radicals is a hilarious, irreverent memoir of cultural confusions, community politics and outright mischief making - with a deeper message.

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Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer and freelance commentator who regularly writes for newspapers and online media on issues relating to Muslim communities and cultures.

Winner of the 2007 Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues