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Free Press, February 2007
eBook, 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1416538593
ISBN-13: 9781416538592
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today’s most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next; and she made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and forced to resign from the Dutch Parliament.
Infidel shows the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished—and sometimes reviled—political superstar and champion of free speech—the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female circumcision, brutal beatings, an adolescence as a devout believer, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four countries under dictatorships. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam, earning her the enmity of reactionary Islamists and craven politicians.
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Browse Inside Infidel "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
Suite101.com, September 4, 2011
...to the United States where she has lived for 33 years. Her first book, Now They Call me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror, describes the profound mental shift which led her to renounce Islam, embrace ...
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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