If you were raised to hate, would you choose tolerance? (Book trailer)

“Everyone has a choice. Even if you’re trained to hate, you can choose tolerance. You can choose empathy.“ An astonishing true story of an American boy trained to hate, who chose a different path. From “The Terrorist’s Son,“ a TED Book. PRE-ORDER NOW. Amazon: =as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1476784809&linkCode=as2&tag=teco06-20&linkId=QE7ESMJOSHH7VYFN Barnes & Noble: iTunes: Google Play: Available September 9. “I’m convinced that empathy is more powerful than hate and that our lives should be dedicated to making it go viral.“ - Zak Ebrahim Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5, 1990, his father, El-Sayyid Nosair, shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to “Remember El-Sayyid Nosair.“ For Ebrahim, a childhood amid terrorism was all he knew. After his father’s incarceration, his family moved more than twenty times, haunted by and persecuted for the crimes of his father. Though his radicalized father modeled fanatical beliefs, the hateful ideas never resonated with the shy, awkward boy. The older he grew, the more fully Ebrahim grasped the horrific depths of his father’s acts. The more he understood, the more he resolved to dedicate his life to promoting peace. In this book, Ebrahim traces his remarkable journey to escape his father’s terrible legacy. Crisscrossing the eastern United States, from Pittsburgh to Memphis, from a mosque in Jersey City to the Busch Gardens theme park in Tampa, The Terrorist’s Son is the story of a boy inculcated in dogma and hate—a boy presumed to follow in his father’s footsteps—and the man who chose a different path.