Surviving the Taliban

When an Afghan poet chooses peace, women's education, and eventually Christianity over the Taliban's holy war, his own brother shoots him eleven times on his wedding day. So begins a twelve-year odyssey of survival—clandestine journeys with smugglers across Europe, rejection by asylum systems, police torture, and betrayal by a corrupt UN refugee agency. Told to LDS humanitarian volunteer Jay Fluckiger by a man called only 'The Poet,' this harrowing firsthand account exposes religious persecution, the plight of women, and the human cost of war.

• A poet shot eleven times by his own brother on his wedding day—and lived to tell about it
• An eyewitness look inside a world Western journalists rarely see
• Repeated visions of Jesus that kept a hunted man alive across three continents
• Exposes corruption in the UN refugee system that leaves genuine converts to die

“What do you say to yourself when you're dying? I thought, Bisamilahi Rahmani Rahim (I begin in the name of God who is kind and forgiving). This is the end.”

Perfect for an adult Christian reader interested in true stories of religious persecution, refugee struggles, and faith tested under extreme hardship in the Muslim world.