Peace all,
I will nowhastily add a few points to the promos I've been spamming here. Yes, I've written a novel that can be purchased from fernmind.com -- a media promotion engine that I've helped establish with (much) wider ambitions in mind.
I'm pretty sure this novel ought to be perfect for the Council of Ex-Muslims -- it might well become the replacement revelation for you guys
Basically, the novel concerns a future world in which the UK is run by extremist Tailorites -- a group who took the words of the Tailor literally and implemented a literalist fascist political system based on his various esoteric thoughts. Hyper-Salafi UK. The government do not tolerate anyone suggesting that the Tailor might have been speaking metaphorically -- and in fact view all forms of mysticism as a threat to the state. Meanwhile, Islam proper continues only within the Islamic Republic of America, which converted centuries earlier, its fundamentalist strains being an obvious match.
There is now a new growing religion on the scene, known as the Rainbow Connection -- or the SEEN -- it has popularity within the universities (activist SEENSocs) -- but are they terrorists or a mind control cult -- or just innocent in their practice of piety?
The novel utilizes an old 80s interactive gamebook concept (some of you are probably too young to remember it) to make some points about the nature of "the text" and "the game", religion and political change. It's written in second person (like my other favourite book) -- so you play the book like an game -- the "you" in the book is confronted with different decisions (to join the new religion, apostatize, join "secular" Tailorite society, work for the FBI as a plant, etc).
To use a Sufi term, the book is a malamati work of fiction and contains low levels of sex, drugs (there's a new drug on the street called FNA that plays a vital role), violence (for example, in one scene, sufi saint Hallaj's martyrdom is played out in a Guantanamo bay like prison, there's also this rather wild scene with Lilith in a hollywood nightclub ... ) and general rock and roll.
Importantly the book (like my other favourite book) will give "you" get to be the "rock star", whatever that means (up to the reader).
Anyhow, hope some of you like it -- I'll also have some news in the near future about my bigger, "serious" book -- which will be less malamati and more a tailored suit-and-tie.
Love and Light,
The Tailor
Topic: Hyper-Salafism: the True Meaning of Islam