INTERRORGATION: My Testimony of Survival, Faith, and Reckoning | by Anis Labidi | Nov, 2025
On March 12, 2014, in Tokyo, Japan, I was abducted, kidnapped, and interrogated under conditions so oppressive they felt worse than murder itself. My rights were denied, mocked, and trampled. A translator was brought in, but when I tried to speak, he told me he could not understand English. It was a plot designed not just to silence me, but to erase me.
This was not the first time. Years earlier in France, after I refused a spy job, I faced a similar scheme. What happened in Japan was the continuation of a pattern: attempts to strip me of dignity, possessions, and even identity. Yet what they could not strip away was my spirit — because oppression, as Allah has decreed, is worse than murder, and the spirit cannot be murdered.
The Poster: INTTERRORGATION
To mark this chapter of my life, I designed a poster titled INTTERRORGATION.
My face is painted white, lips red, round sunglasses concealing the eyes. Above it, the word itself: INTTERRORGATION.
From DARED to Re‑DARED
My first book, DARED, was a documentary of lived truth. I sent it to leaders, decision‑makers, those who call themselves “chiefs.” All but two received it. One of those two was later assassinated. The other was sentenced to prison. Their downfall was not my hand, but Allah’s decree.
Now comes Re‑DARED, a book born from blood, fire, and survival. It is not philosophy written in safety. It is a manifesto carved out of betrayal and faith. It is my lawsuit — not in the courts of men, but in the Court of Allah.
Re‑DARED is written to honor DARED, and to honor the me who was, in 2014, worse than murdered. It is a mirror. Once you see yourself in it, you cannot look away.
Japan: History and Present
My abduction and interrogation happened in Japan. This injustice cannot be seen in isolation. History remembers the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, when the Imperial Japanese Army committed mass killings and assaults against civilians, including Muslims.
And in more recent times, Japan’s Supreme Court in 2016 upheld blanket surveillance and profiling of Muslims, a policy widely condemned by human rights advocates as discriminatory. The irony is stark: while Muslims were profiled as a supposed “threat,” Japan had already endured deliberate terror attacks against civilians by groups such as the Aum Shinrikyo sect.
The pattern is clear: injustice repeated, discrimination justified, truth denied. My story is one more chapter in that long chain.
A Reckoning Beyond Paper
This is only the beginning. If they attempt another abduction, there will be another reckoning — a Re‑Re‑DARED. That one, Insha’Allah, will not be written on paper but written in eternity.
INTTERRORGATION is not just a poster. It is a declaration. It is the visual echo of a book that refuses to die. It is survival turned into art, oppression turned into testimony, and faith turned into fire.
Closing
When you read Re‑DARED, you are not just reading my story. You are stepping into a paradox where Yes and No collapse, where oppression meets resistance, where silence becomes testimony.
This is not safe philosophy. This is lived truth. And once you encounter it, you will want to question it, film it, carry it further. Because Re‑DARED is not just my survival — it is a mirror of yours.
They tried to bury me in silence, but silence is not soil — it is fire. And every fire that burns me only lights the path for those who dare to walk after me.
Anis Labidi
