Heretic
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00S8QXW94 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Today, millions of Muslims are wrapped in a rigid orthodoxy whereby women are denied education, girls as young as nine can be forced into legal marriages, and men are told that their futures lie not in building better, more just societies but in jihad against the infidel. What happened to Islamic reform? Why have al Qaeda and Boko Haram become the faces of contemporary Islam? Why has the Arab Spring devolved into a battle over sharia law? Continuing her personal journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard and American citizenship, the New York Times best-selling author of Infidel and Nomad crafts a powerful call for an Islamic reformation as the only way to end the current wave of global violence and repression of women
"One of the most important public debates in our time" according to Roger Lipsey. Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been conducting for some years now one of the most important public debates in our time and facing immense risk to do so. Her clarity of mind and purpose are stunning. For her there are three camps in Islam: Medina, Mecca, and Reform-minded. Her exposition and critique . She has spoken out with admirable courage that makes Western apologists for Islam look like the wimps that they are This book should be on the must-read list of every thinking individual in the Western World. It is a clarion alarm to wake up to a brutal and deadly but poorly understood threat. The murderers that she discusses as elements in Islamic State (IS), Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, the Talib. S. Anne Johnson said Heretic Deserves A Hearing. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not the uncomplicated Islamophobe she has been portrayed as. She has a nuanced and important perspective to share. That is not to say that I agree with her every particular. But what is the point of only reading those you whole heartedly agree with? If you are not challe