Experimental Blog #133

Comments and quotations from "Uncompromised" - The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA by Nada Prouty

Although this book contains an opening disclaimer, "This material has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent disclosure of classified information," it is, nonetheless, very informative and exciting about training and work in the American FBI and CIA. 

"Uncompromised" is, perhaps, necessarily vague, sometimes, and it contains quite a few reconstructed apparently partly artificial conversations. However, Nada Prouty's book might be described as a rather controversial, but inspiring and thought provoking, search and struggle for father, family, and country. She writes that the American FBI became her new family, at least temporarily; and she also seems to maintain dependable relationships with her 2 sisters, and she finds a good husband and starts a family.

Nada Prouty says that she has now converted to the Catholic faith, but her "parents were Druze, a minority religious faction amounting to approximately 7 percent of the Lebanese population. The Druze religion started as a religious-philosophical movement in Egypt in the tenth century. The Druze consider their faith a blend of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and believe that their spiritual message was inherent in the prophetic voices of Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad."

"...the Druze eliminated all elements of ritual and ceremony, leaving no fixed daily liturgy, no defined holy days, and no pilgrimage obligations." ... "The Druze religion is also secretive and closed to converts."

A few pages earlier Nada Prouty writes of the Druze religion, "There is a definite mysticism to it, and the Druze strongly believe in a supreme being. I had never practised this religion in Lebanon, but its mysteries and otherworldliness intrigued me at times. I suppose I was similarly susceptible to the mysteries of Roman Catholicism."