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Free Press
February 2007
On Sale: February 18, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 0743289684
EAN: 9780743289689
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this profoundly affecting memoir from the
internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin,
Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story,
from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi
Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and
activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under
armed guard in the West.
One of today's most admired and controversial political
figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international
headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague,
Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission.
Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming
of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes
reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech.
With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi
Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad
will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done
in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family
and extended clan, 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 largely ruled by
despots. In her early twenties, 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 immigrant women and the
reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she
is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary
Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and
expelled from her 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 evolved out of
dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering
freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance
democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could
be timelier or more significant.
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