Didn't dignify it with an answer, all I got was the that side-eye.

Finally got these two in the mail, been looking forward to reading both.

Reading this now. Incredible book, some of the most powerful writing I've read in years. It cuts into the hypocricy and sanctimony of the Western world. Akkad writes: "This is an account of a fracture, a breaking away from the notion that the polite, Western liberal ever stood for anything at all."