eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 02 2007 | islam, netherlands, Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, feminism, muslim, thepugetnews, literature, books
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a courageous and intelligent woman. Muslim fanatics killed a movie director she had worked with and pinned a note to his body with a knife, calling for her death and holy war against the west. Her memoir is receiving rave reviews from the New York Times here.
Quoted: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s brave and inspiring memoir traces her journey from Mogadishu, Somalia, to the Dutch Parliament and beyond and “from the world of faith to the world of reason.”
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