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| Original Title: | Infidel |
| ISBN: | 0743289684 (ISBN13: 9780743289689) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Rita Verdonk, Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| Literary Awards: | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2008), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2008) |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hardcover | Pages: 353 pages Rating: 4.21 | 74239 Users | 6266 Reviews
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| Title | : | Infidel |
| Author | : | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 353 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2007 by Free Press (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Religion. Cultural. Africa. Politics. Islam |
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One of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament. Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries ruled largely by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from family and clan, she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali’s story tells how a bright little girl evolves out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.Rating Appertaining To Books Infidel
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an extremely polarising figure. She has been hailed as an icon of women's emancipation and derided as a self-hating Islamophobe. Ayaan is an outright critic of Islam: not its manifestations across the world, but the religious philosophy itself. According to her, Islam is a medieval religion built on violence and misogyny and has no place in the modern world, and it is high time Muslims accepted it.This book is her autobiography from her birth to the point of time when she hadAny woman born as a Muslim who has the courage to write a book openly critical of Islam has my respect. A woman who has the brass to title that same book Infidel has my rapt attention. Infidel by Ayann Hasli Ali is shocking, brutally honest, and captivating. This womans courage and resilience are a testimony to the human spirit. The letters and phone calls between her and her father are painfully real and troubling, especially when read in the context of the harshness and violence of the culture
Nabiha wrote: "Excellent review! balanced POV and very good points made!!!"Thanks!
MARCH 25, 2015Immensely disliked this book and tired of all the comments so I took down my review. Moving on!
This would have been a four star rating, but I'm upping it to five because this book has significantly altered my world view. I've been one of those western liberals, thinking that Islam is mostly about peace and that the violence of it stems only from the fanatics. I'm revising that stance now and am wondering how I could ever have been so blind.Here in Norway, where I live, everyone is ever so willing to adapt to immigrants. We change our school traditions so that we do not offend people who
If I ever decide to make a list of the most important books Ive read Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali would surely find its place on it.First time Ive heard about Miss Hirsi Ali it was after murder of Theo Van Gogh because of his film Submission-part one which he made in collaboration with Hirsi Ali. Theo has been shoot and slaughtered in the middle of the day and the letter for Hirsi Ali (in which assassin is promising the same to her) was staked with knife in Theos chest. It was really a huge shock
A few months ago, I read Murder in Amsterdam, about the murder of Van Goghs great-grand-nephew, Theo, back in 2004. Theo Van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somalian refugee had recently produced a short documentary about the treatment of women in Islam. He was killed first and she was meant to be next. She has been under continuous death threats since that time. Infidel is an amazing book, the first one Ive read by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I definitely plan on reading more. I cannot say that its a book
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