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 enlarge | Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  253 reviews
Sales Rank: 1950783
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 1416586040
EAN: 9781416586043
ASIN: 1416586040
Publication Date: 2008
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A must read!!!!! August 28, 2008
Ayan Hirsi Ali's account of growing up as a Somali woman in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Germany, and the Netherlands, what she endured, her search for religious meaning as a Muslim and her struggle to be her own person was inspiring and a must read for all!!!!!!
Honest, Life-changing August 28, 2008
One of the few life-changing books that I would consider a must-read for all: honest, direct, and with inspiring moral clarity.
A story that stays with you August 28, 2008
This is one of the most thought provoking books I have ever read. Ayaan Hirsi Ali gives a detailed portrayal of her life story and growing up Muslim. All that she writes about will stay with you and will make you think.
Her amazing life journey had me taken through several countries and through a culture as a woman I could have never in my wildest dreams knew existed. I had heard about female genital mutilation, but I never truly knew of the real horrors of it. I could also never imagine a mother telling her child to hit before you are hit as a survival of the fittest strategy. Alot of things she writes about are not what we in the westernize world are taught, and it seems very foreign to the point of culture shock.
Please pick up the book and read it with an open mind. I can definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about the struggles of women around the world.
A wonderful read and profoundly moving experience. August 23, 2008
This book opened my eyes to the truth of the world we all live in now - a world that is smaller than we think and much more evil and more perilous. It is the only book I have ever read that truly explains the reason for the 9/11 attack in a way that makes sense and is believable. It opens our vision to the future and to what we can know it will be. I feel that I not only will never think in the same way, I will never be the same. At the same time it portrays amazing courage and is absolutely inspiring, especially so to all young women everywhere.
This book is awesome! August 23, 2008
I am a Christian woman who feels strongly about the rights of women. In Ali's book I saw corollaries between the abuse of women in Islam and the abuse of women in Christiandom. I also saw corollaries between the way culture intertwines itself in the interpretation of the Koran and of the Bible.
Being an American, I had no idea what was going on in Europe in the Muslim communities. I also didn't know hardly anything about what it was like to grow up in the countries Ali did. This book taught me hard realities I was not aware of.
I think this is a great book and encourage everyone to read it. And remember, Islam is not the only religion that uses it's sacred texts to abuse women, there are Christians who do that also.
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