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Infidel (2007)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reviewed by Hannah Tucker | Feb 02, 2007

Details Release Date: Feb 06, 2007; Writer: Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Genres: Autobiography, Nonfiction; Publisher: The Free Press

Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali — who collaborated with filmmaker Theo van Gogh on Submission, the film about Muslim women that led to his 2004 murder — recounts her terrorized childhood in Africa and, much later, her embattled political career in Holland in her book Infidel.

Telling Words
On her arranged marriage: ''I could just see, very clearly and dispassionately, the bars closing in on me.''

Lowdown
Hirsi Ali sacrifices stylish prose in her scathing critique of Islam.

Originally posted Feb 02, 2007 Published in issue #920 Feb 09, 2007 Order article reprints

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