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Free Press, April 2008
Trade Paperback, 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0743289692
ISBN-13: 9780743289696
Description
The brutal murder of the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh in 2004 shocked the world. Shot and mutilated by a Muslim fanatic as he cycled to work, it was a stark reminder of the dangers of challenging an extreme Islamic worldview. It also changed the life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, van Gogh's collaborator on the film that had offended his murderer. Born in Somalia and raised a Muslim, she had escaped an arranged marriage and made a new life as a Dutch parliamentarian, championing the reform of Islam and its attitude to women's rights. She now has twenty-four-hour police protection, but refuses to let that inhibit her willingness to speak out.
The Infidel is Ayaan Hirsi Ali's astonishing story. Recounting the extraordinary transition from a third-world upbringing to her current status as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, it is a truly remarkable autobiography that is as gripping as it is inspiring.
"A brave and elegant figure...an honest woman...No one who reads her [memoirs] will doubt the self-questioning and the rigorous honesty of her mind. Perhaps, as in Voltaire's short story 'L'IngÉnu,' it is that too much honesty is sometimes unpalatable, even if it is couched in civil terms...She has an open mind that has released itself from the old straitjacketed frame of reference of Right and Left, she is instinctively, deeply antiauthoritarian and she is unlikely to stick to straight ideological lines. She will go on asking difficult questions."
-- Isabella Thomas, The Observer
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of Europe's most controversial political figures and a target for terrorists. A notably enigmatic personality whose fierce criticisms of Islam have made her a darling of...conservatives...and...popular with leftists...Soft-spoken but passionate."
-- The Boston Globe
"Too potent a social critic to be tolerated any longer [in her home country]...an unflinching advocate of women's rights and an unflinching critic of Islamic extremism."
-- The New York Times
"A charismatic figure...of arresting and hypnotizing beauty...[who writes] with quite astonishing humor and restraint."
-- Christopher Hitchens
Campus Watch, October 9, 2009
...the umma al-islamiyya, the Community of Believers, who owe their loyalty to that Community alone, never to the Infidel nation-state. We recall, do we not, that the very first thing Osama bin Laden inquired about on that first tape filmed ...
Wicked Local Stow, August 10, 2009
...a pugnacious tone. He dismisses as ?anti-intellectual? writers who he says perpetuate bigotry against Muslims -- such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of ?Infidel,? which tells of her turbulent upbringing in Somalia and her ultimate abandonment ...
Norton Mirror, July 6, 2009
...a pugnacious tone. He dismisses as ?anti-intellectual? writers who he says perpetuate bigotry against Muslims -- such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of ?Infidel,? which tells of her turbulent upbringing in Somalia and her ultimate abandonment ...
Wicked Local Upton, July 2, 2009
...a pugnacious tone. He dismisses as ?anti-intellectual? writers who he says perpetuate bigotry against Muslims -- such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of ?Infidel,? which tells of her turbulent upbringing in Somalia and her ultimate abandonment ...
Frontpagemag.com, April 14, 2009
...who were once believers. Whether itâ??s David Horowitz dissecting the American Left, Bart Ehrman challenging fundamentalist Christianity, or Ayaan Hirsi Ali critiquing Islam, those that have been on the inside can cut the deepest. Not all ...
Canadian Business Magazine, February 25, 2009
... Article Tools Story Tools 'Our two worlds co-exist in the same city streets...' Ayaan Hirsi Ali TORONTO (CNW) - Knopf Canada announced today the acquisition of a new book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose bestselling memoir, INFIDEL, translated ...
Forbes.com, January 23, 2009
...In one of the great crucibles of democracy, this is where free speech is heading. Then there is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian, author of Infidel, and one of Europe's most vocal critics of militant Islam. She wrote a ...
Pajamas Media, January 19, 2009
...published by Thomas Nelson on Jan. 6, 2009. The back cover of her book bears an endorsement by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Hasan Mahmud, and by me as well. Nonie was born in Gaza when it was under Egyptian control and she grew up in Cairo. She is ...
Cleveland Live, December 28, 2008
...the final installment in 768 pages. Critics were underwhelmed, but many fans were oblivious. 2. Under tight security, Ayaan Hirsi Ali flies into Cleveland to accept the Anisfield-Wolf award for her controversial memoir 'Infidel.' Keeping the ...
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