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A country once synonymous with tolerance, Indonesia, the fourth most populous country on the planet, and the world's most populous Muslim country, now locates itself in the midst of a profound switch toward radical Islam. Sadanand Dhume, a Princeton-educated Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an interest in financial development, travels to Indonesia to find out how a population goes from wide-ranging inclusiveness to shrill intolerance in the area of a technology. His traveling associate is Herry Nurdi, a Islamist who hero-worships Osama bin Laden. Along, their travels course mosques and discotheques, prison cells and dormitories, sacred volcanoes and temple ruins, forging an uneasy friendship that offers a first-hand look into the crucible of radical Islam's future. With Indonesia's first presidential election in five years scheduled for April 2009, My Friend the Fanatic is a troubling and poignant trip through the battleground for Islam's future.
