Fatwas of the Virtuous Vampire: Essay

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" After effectively damning her to a life as a vampire, Ibrahim, himself abused by the man who made him one of the undead, tries to 'make good' on his promise to himself to help Lina: "Despite the many shortcoming of Ibrahim's moral probity, he had known from the start that he would live his life as a vampire much the same way he had lived his life as a normal human -- trying to be good, even if he failed miserably most of the time." This is, Taylor suggests, not unlike that of a terrorist who rationalizes his conversion of another man (or woman) to the cause, that he is at least trying, and saving the new convert from a worse fate.

Taylor's extended metaphor of Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism and vampirism, of one life as an outsider in real life with life as an outsider in a science fiction scenario, forces the reader to uncomfortably identify with the mindset of the protagonist in a way that would be unbearable, if an actual terrorist were used as the main character.

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Taylor makes terrorism emotionally, if not intellectually comprehensible. This shows the great power of science fiction -- to take readers outside of their current ways of thinking and conceptualizing the world and humanity, and to give them greater clarity, balance, and perspective.

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