Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Infidel
Book Review: A Must Read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is without doubt the most important and interesting book I have read this year. I recommend it highly to anyone who wants a picture inside (and outside) Islam from a woman's point of view - albeit one who has made the journey from under the burka to become an active politician in a western country. Ayaan Hirsi Ali's courage and honesty ring out loud and clear. She has the gumption to say what most people and politicians are too politically correct to say. I salute her.Book Review: A Must Read For Western Civilization Nations
Summary: 4 Stars
Ms. Kirsi Ali presents a startling and graphic account of the fanaticism of radical Islam. Western populations would be well advised to be aware of the plight of women, the barbaric justification of homicide, and the ultimate goal of imposing Islamic law upon the targeted nations of jihad. It is a stunning and horrifying eye-opener.Book Review: A New Apostle for Freedom and Hope
Summary: 5 Stars
The Islam which Ayaan Hirsi Ali describes is like some tropical disease to which civilized nations have no resistance, and which becomes virulently epidemic when it is imported by immigration. We accord Islam the respectful neglect which we would any major religion, unaware that at its core it comprises a profound and fundamental opposition to Western values. Ali describes first hand her experience with Islam as not merely a religion, but a way of life which is designed expressly for oppression, perversion, and unspeakable cruelty. The Quran itself requires the cutting off of hands, the mutilation of girls, the stoning of women, and murder for the sake of honor. Ali wants us to be undeceived by Islam's apologists; it is a religion with hate as its seminal force.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born to a proud and devout family in Somalia, and to whom all things Western were loathsome. She and her childhood friends were actually proud when their genitals were painfully mutilated, and considered those girls whose clitorises weren't cut off to be whores destined for the fires of hell. Her first person account of the tortuous path which ultimately led her to become a member of the Dutch Parliament is heartwarming, but it is also terrifying. When a note threatening her life is found pinned by a knife into the chest of a colleague, she finally realizes, as does all of Holland, that she isn't safe. She ultimately relocates to Washington, DC, to work at the American Enterprise Institute. Holland cannot protect her because it has accommodated, no, actually welcomed Muslim homicidal maniacs for so long, that those murderers actually believe that Holland tolerates religiously-inspired violence. After all, their faith requires them to kill any Muslim who has abandoned Islam, and why would the authorities interfere with religious practices?
There can be no better spokesperson to sound the alarm against the threat of Islam than Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Actually, her name is Ayaan Hirsi Magan. She changed it extemporaneously at a Dutch immigration center to make it more difficult for her family to locate her. Her concern was that if they found her, she would be returned to Somalia and be killed. She had dishonored her family and insulted Islam by refusing an arranged marriage, and she feared that the males in her own family would kill her. Her courage will be vindicated only when her message is heard. That message is that there is an antidote to the disease that is spreading over Europe, and that antidote is democracy, liberty, and the rights of the individual. Islam cannot stand up against freedom, and the struggle between them is just warming up.
Book Review: A Powerful Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished reading this book and found it to be very powerful. I learned a great deal about the Muslim religion, the horrible treatment of women in that very violent culture, and that we should be very concerned about the future of the non-Muslim world, or the "infidels" to quote them. I admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali's courage to speak out for the Muslim women being tortured and killed in the name of religion, and that in her view, Muslims are not peaceful. I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to become more aware of what the Muslims do to their own and wish to do to the rest of the world.Book Review: A Profile in Courage
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently had the good fortune to meet Ayaan Hirsi Ali at a Cato Institute conference, where she gave the closing night address. While she spoke calmly from the podium, the image of grace under pressure, her bodyguards were strategically positioned around the room. I was mid-way through Infidel then; I have since finished the book and handed it on--several copies, in fact--to members of my family. I trust they will find, as I have, that this is an important and necessary book. I judge the writing fluid, the story gripping, and the arguments clearly reasoned. Above all, I am grateful that proponents of liberty like Hirsi Ali, however they are dismissed, reviled, or threatened, continue to speak out with courage and conviction.