Infidel
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Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
©2007 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Free Press, A Division Of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
CAB Comment––I read “Infidel” back when it was first published in 2007 and was blown away by it’s brutal honesty and real-life horror. And I do mean horror. This book is not only a journey in a geographic and spiritual sense, through darkness into light, but a horrific journey through one of the most radical Islamic practices, the now infamous FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), also know as Female Castration. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know the firsthand mind-blowing truth about this terrible practice, which not only scars physically, but emotionally and deeply. Worse still, the far too-many young girls who endure this Muslim brutality suffer these scars for life––but only if they survive the crude, bloody butchery to begin with. Many do not. Although not for the squeamish, “Infidel” is an amazing and moving story that I have not forgotten and that I highly recommend. It is a survivors story to be reckoned with, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an amazing woman who has risked her life to tell it.
“Infidel”––New York Times Review:
“Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to the attention of the wider world in an extraordinary way. In 2004 a Muslim fanatic, after shooting the filmmaker Theo van Gogh dead on an Amsterdam street, pinned a letter to Mr. van Gogh’s chest with a knife. Addressed to Ms. Hirsi Ali, the letter called for holy war against the West and, more specifically, for her death.
A Somali by birth and a recently elected member of the Dutch Parliament, Ms. Hirsi Ali had waged a personal crusade to improve the lot of Muslim women. Her warnings about the dangers posed to the Netherlands by unassimilated Muslims made her Public Enemy No. 1 for Muslim extremists, a feminist counterpart to Salman Rushdie. The circuitous, violence-filled path that led Ms. Hirsi Ali from Somalia to the Netherlands is the subject of “Infidel,” her brave, inspiring and beautifully written memoir. Narrated in clear, vigorous prose, it traces the author’s geographical journey from Mogadishu to Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, and her desperate flight to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage. At the same time, Ms. Hirsi Ali describes a journey “from the world of faith to the world of reason,” a long, often bitter struggle to come to terms with her religion and the clan-based traditional society that defined her world and that of millions of Muslims all over.”
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