The Booksmith at 1644 Haight Street in San Francisco had a book signing last night featuring Markos Moulitsas and his new book American Taliban, How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and
the Radical Right.
Markos read an excerpt from his book and then fielded several questions from the crowd. His wife Elisa attended sans Ari and Eli because they end up wanting to buy every book and toy they see at these book signings directly competing with Markos' book sales volume. ;)
Markos signed all our books and then we grabbed a bite to eat at the Tacqueria next door.
Below are 33 photos from the event and I'd like to wish Markos a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY again!
Markos fielding questions from the crowd
Markos signing books after the reading and Q&A
Markos and Elisa
A huge thrill for me was to finally meet allie123, who is one of the champions of the Haiti diary series.
I have one question: Could she be any cuter? I know she has one of the biggest hearts on the planet.
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I scored, I got a huge hug and a whole paragraph plus autograph from Markos in my book
Myself; navajo and Markos
Myself; navajo and Elisa Elisa Markos leaving the bookstore
Markos was telling a funny story about how recent stress made him want to shoot his head and then he did a kablooie hand motion animating the aftermath. lol.
Tacquerias should be colorful, right?
Oke and rfall attended and were my designated drivers
rfall chatting with Markos and kombiz enjoying a taco
Markos stealing chips from Elisa
kombiz
rfall and Oke giving Elisa and Markos a ride to the nearest BART station. Good times...
It's great living near Markos and Elisa in the Bay Area and to be able to visit San Francisco so easily. I really enjoyed my evening with them.
Thanks again to rfall and Oke for picking me up at my door.
American Taliban is currently the #6 book in politics at Amazon.
Please give it more of a boost. You can buy it here.
A hilarious review is posted by Jesus General at the Amazon link above, go read the whole thing. Here's an excerpt:
How dare the author compare the American right to the Taliban. Sure, we both hate sex, reproductive choice, secularism, government regulation, homosexualism, and masturbation. We both want to establish godly governments that enforce scriptural law. And, we both justify our wars on the basis of religion. But the similarities end there.
We fight our wars in the name of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. They fight their battles for Allah, a god who doesn't even know how to transubstantiate or turn water into a party.
We want to impose God's kingdom on Earth by passing biblically based sharia laws. The Koran serves as the basis of the Taliban's law, and unlike the Bible, it offers no object lessons in which she-bears eat children or whole cities are smitten with hemorrhoids.
The Taliban punish OB/GYNs using crude, uncivilized methods like stoning. We shoot doctors from a distance with a modern high-powered rifle.
While we may demand that our women dress modestly, and enforce it by calling them sluts or blaming them when they are victims of rape, our burka is a more fashionable and procreation-friendly burka.
Those are just a few examples of how we're dissimilar. I could go on about the differences between a crusade and a jihad; family values vs sharia; the unAllahed vs the unJesused, and morale sheep, adultery, and divorce vs temporary wives, etc, but I think I've made my point. The Great Orange Satan is wrong. We're not like the Taliban. We're God's favored people.
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