PATH OF BLOOD by Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker (Simon & Schuster £18. 99) Scroll down for video There is no more important subject in the world at this moment. I do not know a single person who is not appalled and frightened in equal measure by the spread of Islamic fanaticism, especially the seemingly unstoppable rise of the ragbag gang of murderers known as Islamic State (IS). In addition it makes most of us rage as well as weep that young people who have known all the advantages of living in Britain (and make no mistake, there are many, no matter how much victimhood-type whinging goes on) should head off to a pitiless desert in the hope of building a so-called ‘Caliphate’.
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El Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defence League in New York
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His son Zak Ebrahim (his adopted name) was just seven
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Ebrahim’s mother was a Catholic American who lost her faith and found Islam
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Zak found a job at a theme park in Florida where the racial and religious diversity of the visitors opened his eyes to a world of tolerance
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