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Search - Infidel
Book Description:
PRAISE FOR INFIDEL:
"A brave and elegant figure...an honest woman...No one who reads her [memoirs] will doubt the self-questioning and rigorus honesty of her ind. Perhaps, as in Voltaire's short story 'L'Ingenu,'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 tthe 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 the difficult questions."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, was raised Muslim, and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia. In 1992, Hirsi Ali came to the Netherlands as a refugee, escaping a forced marriage to a distant cousin she had never met. She learned Dutch and worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women. After earning her college degree in political science, she worked for the Labor Party. She denounced Islam after the September 11 terrorist attacks and now fights for the rights of Muslim women in Europe, the enlightenment of Islam, and security in the West."
"A brave and elegant figure...an honest woman...No one who reads her [memoirs] will doubt the self-questioning and rigorus honesty of her ind. Perhaps, as in Voltaire's short story 'L'Ingenu,'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 tthe 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 the difficult questions."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, was raised Muslim, and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia. In 1992, Hirsi Ali came to the Netherlands as a refugee, escaping a forced marriage to a distant cousin she had never met. She learned Dutch and worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women. After earning her college degree in political science, she worked for the Labor Party. She denounced Islam after the September 11 terrorist attacks and now fights for the rights of Muslim women in Europe, the enlightenment of Islam, and security in the West."
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