Terror Quest, Hamtramck, and Islam
I don’t want any reader get the idea that Terror Quest is in any way “anti-Islam.” After all, the main female character is a Muslim (Najeeba Hallal), and so is the man who does to most in the end to help her (Butrus the Hanbalite), as well as the key figure in the solution to their problem (Ron Sunaru). Also, the loaded term “anti-Islam” covers a wide variety of behaviors and attitudes. The Pope is “anti-Islam” in the sense that he doesn’t want all Roman Catholics to convert to Islam, because then he would be out of a job. The Crusaders of the Middle Ages were “anti-Islam” in the sense that they wanted to murder all Muslims who opposed them on their march to the Holy Land. Terror Quest is really about the takeover of authority by strict fundamentalists instead of the duly elected officials who should be running the country or state or other political entity. A fanatic fundamentalist attitude is not, of course, limited to one religion or another. In the United States, strict fundam