Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Infidel

Pros: fascinating, descriptive, engaging throughout
Cons: doesn't know Islam's real history

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Pros: Excellent book on how one woman fought against the Muslim religion and woman's rights
Cons: none I found

This book Infidel will hold you spell bound as the author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her story of growing up in several Muslim nations and her fight for her freedom. I saw this book advertised and ordered it through amazon.com. I have always wondered ...

Pros: very profound beginning to a battle that must be fought
Cons: will offend many of certain religious persuasions

It is very unfashionable to be critical of religion. Very often bad things can be done in the name of religion and many will turn the other way and pretend that all things are really equal. But should a religion that subjugates half its members ...

Pros: Very enlightening. Gives new insight into Muslim thinking.
Cons: Nothing that I recall

This is a remarkable story and a remarkable woman. She and her siblings suffered genital mutilation at the hands of her grandmother at a young age and as a teen was she became a hard core head to toe covered Muslin in Nairobi, Kenya where they lived at ...

Pros: The authors life story is a fascinating read. A fast read!
Cons: This story can be hard to take at times.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's unusual life story is a fascinating read. This book is so much more than an ordinary autobiography. In the first chapter of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is age 5,. Her grandmother is teaching her to recite the names of her ancestors, as ...

Pros: Makes you sit up and come alive and realize the issues that really matter.
Cons: Might be too graphic for younger readers in a couple of places

This book is so powerful it should be required reading for just about everybody. Engagingly written, it is a riveting account of the authors amazing journey from her humble beginnings growing up in Africa and the Middle East to becoming an influential member of parliment in the Netherlands. She really brings to fore the main issues that impact the clash of the world's two main idiologies. What an amazing woman.