Linda was white. Her forebears were from the very continent that had come crashing down on New Zealand and wiped out its native population hundreds of years earlier. Her skin was the same color as that of the terrorist who crashed into the Linwood mosque she attended. But those he saw as invaders, Sister Linda embraced as family, opening "her heart and home" to them. And the faith the terrorist and the War on Terror marked as "savage," she clung to for salvation.

FICTION: A compelling story dynamic: an individual defying inherited legacy of settler violence to embrace those her lineage historically displaced. Strong character study material.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1007