Writer-activist and Somali immigrant Ayaan Hirsi Ali has become a media celebrity through her atheism, and as someone who campaigns against religious extremism. As a former Muslim turned atheist, Hirsi Ali has drawn her share of criticism because of her unrelenting perspective on Islam as "a destructive, nihilistic cult of death." While some have described her as a kind of atheist Ann Coulter, just last month the National Review's Rich Lowry, in an op-ed for Politico, called her "a hero for our time." Hirsi Ali, who just delivered the keynote address at the American Atheists National Convention last week, is a feminist whose first policy is honesty, even if that means being blunt.
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"Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
An Amazon customer review:
Riveting is one word I would use to describe Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book, Infidel. Her story is one of defiance and great courage. You will see Islam through her eyes and feel her fear, and anger. You will be impressed with the courage that it took this young twenty-two year old girl to reject a marriage she did not want and to escape to a culture that she had been taught to detest. You will see how gradually the light was turned on and she began to see the falseness of all she had been taught. You will cheer her fight to bring awareness to the plight of Muslim women and girls who are basically slaves to an ideology that denies their personhood. Fathers, brothers, and other male relatives have totally control over their lives. Ayaan risked her life to tell the truth about the abominable treatment of Muslim women, not only in the Arab countries but also how they are importing their beliefs to European countries. She has been under the threat of death from Muslim clerics, has had to go into hiding, and has stood and faced it all with dignity. No book will make you more thankful to have been born in America than the book Infidel. It is a must read.
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