Wow. Just. . . Wow! An amazing woman with an incredible mission and message.

My father called about three weeks ago, very excited. He had just finished Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and was breathless. I haven’t heard my father so excited about a book in quite a while. He said he was sending it up and I should read it for a better understand of Islam and what is going on in the fundamentalist mid-east. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali born Danish citizen, one of the few Islamic women to escape with their lives from arranged marriages, excision, honor killings of pregnant women, and the general backwarness of the form of Islam taught by the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood. Go to YouTube and search for Submission. Watch the film that caused the Islamic radicals to kill Theo Van Gogh and force his co-producer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, into state security hiding for months. The murderer stabbed a not to Ali in the chesk of van Gogh (after 49 other stabbings). Also watch the clip on You Tube with Ayaan on Bill Maher.

This is very powerful stuff. I put it on my top five books to understand the Mid East and what the West is up against. In here own words “The message of this book, if it must have a message, is that we in the West would be wrong to prolong the pain of that transition unnecessarilly, by elevating culturs full of bigotry and hatred toward women to the stature of respectable alternatives ways of life. Life is better in Europe than it is in the Muslim world because human relations are better, and one reason human relations are better is that in the West, life on earth is valued in the here and now, and individuals enjoy rights and freedoms that are recognized and protected by the state. To accept subordination and abuse because Allah willed it – that, for me, would be self-hatred.”

Read this book. Five of Five stars