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American Jihad is the only popular book available about the religious experience of Muslims; both black and white; in America. With over one billion faithful worldwide; and over six rnillion in the United States alone; Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion. In fact; the population of American Muslims surpasses the membership of many mainline Protestant denominations. However; the media's depiction of Muslims in America often stops short of any real examination and opts instead to cover only the sensational; puzzling charisma of Louis Farrakhan; who leads the Nation of Islam; or the violence of some of the more extremist Muslims. American Jihad dispels these prominent but dangerously deceptive stereotypes and is the first book to take a serious and inclusive approach to exploring how the Muslim faith is embraced and practiced in America. Like many African-Americans of his generation; author Steven Barboza was affected profoundly by Malcolm X and converted from Catholicism after reading the Autobiography. In American Jihad; he features a myriad of faithful Muslims who come from many different walks of life from a foreign policy advisor of Richard M. Nixon's; to a blond Sufi; to an AIDS activist; and so on. In American Jihad; you'll hear from some of the most famous American Muslims after Malcolm X; including Louis Farrakhan; Kareem Abdul Jabar; Attallah Shabazz (Malcolm X's daughter); and the former H. Rap Brown. In American Jihad; Steven Barboza does for Islam what Studs Terkel has recently done for race relations.