“In seeking God, through Islam, I ended up finding Islamism. And this Islamism, my own, here in France, did not lead me to God, it took me away from him and took me away from myself”. Why did a kid with no history, a brilliant schoolboy, end up losing his footing? Is it the early death of his father that will lock him into the spiral of delinquency? Did the tragic death of a young man in his neighborhood push him to become an Islamist? Avoid shortcuts, that's what Farid Abdelkrim invites us to do by retracing his instructive journey.

In this book, this now free man offers us an unexpected look, full of freshness and without concession on our society. Throughout the pages, the reasons that will lead a teenager in search of freedom and identity to become a fierce zealot. Some of the sentences are depicted that will lead a child of the Republic to become stateless from the Islamist organization of the Muslim Brotherhood to which he belonged for more than fifteen years, the author tells us why and how he will eventually come out. An exit towards the light followed by this saving cries of hope. “No, reasonably, I no longer believe that God entrusted me with the mission of announcing to the whole world that I am the best under the sole pretext that I would be the guardian of its religion. It seems to me rather that his teachings are an invitation to share, on the condition of knowingly embodying them, universal values that breathe the incentive to become better. The lessons that emerge from my reading of Islam also give me the duty to provide guarantees in action that what I am carrying does not in any way constitute a threat to others, to their integrity, to their freedom, to their convictions. ... This is my way of saying myself and of being a believer from now on”. An unprecedented book.

Farid Abdelkarim was born on June 25, 1967 in Nantes. He holds a master's degree in sociology.

His total commitment to the message of Islam in the late eighties led him to become an activist within the organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. Member of the AIOF and the UOIF, founding member and President of the JMF; founding member and member of the Bureau des Sages of FEMYSO; or even a member of the CFCM... he has given hundreds of conferences in many cities in France and is also the author of four books... Today, he has returned to an inner Islam and to his first love; the scene where he interprets, I declare peace to you and the way to the station...