Taha Siddiqui never felt he belonged in the world his Muslim parents grew up in. Although they tried to teach them their ways, he never understood what being devout means. When his father became much more difficult to live with, life became a lot more tough. And what’s recounted in the aptly titled graphic novel, The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile, is a deep look at what goes on in Pakistan.
Some parents allowed their kids to grow up without certain teachings engrained upon them at an early age. This author had a fleeting moment where he could read comics featuring Batman, Superman and Spider-man. He not only idolized but also wanted to be like them. But after his father looked at these books, he took them away and banned them because they represented something he deemed against the will of Allah.
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