Norman Spinrad At Large

                 JIHADIS--THEY PLAY THE GAME, GIVE THEM THE NAME                             It's World War III, and we are in it.        Al Qaida in Pakistan, Al Qaida in the Mahgreb, Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the Taliban, whoever, wherever, these groups and franchises operate, they're called "militants," in government lingo, in newspaper, news sites, and TV news, they're called "militants."         But "militant" denotes a level of passion, dedication, and ruthlessness, not even a tactic as "terrorist" at least does, and that doesn't begin to describe what they real are.  They they call themselves "jihadhis" and proud of it and that's what they really are.            All these terrorist groups, wherever they are, whatever their tactics, have a coherent and focused ideological goal-...

     English commercial for OSAMA THE GUN--cause celebre in French, currently unavailable in English Watch the original English version of the commercial for the French translation, OUSSAMA, featuring Norman Spinrad: http://youtu.be/JYhWG-QSyc0   And if that grabs you, download and read the portion of the novel free, from Scribd.  If you're a reader, who then wants to read the whole thing, about all you can do now is shout out loud and spread the word.     http://www.scribd.com/doc/326098/OSAMA-THE-GUNnovel-portion If you're a publisher, the rights are available from Carole Saudejaud, in charge of rights for Fayard in France because world rights were sold to Fayard due to lack of courage at the time by American publishers:           csaudejaud@editions-fayard.fr But electronic copies of the whole novel maybe be had directly from Norman Spinrad if you are a reputable publisher, critic, or journalist:     ...