I am just starting Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
This book is probably contraband at the University because Ms. Ali is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of "anti-Muslim extremists."
I am just starting Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
This book is probably contraband at the University because Ms. Ali is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of "anti-Muslim extremists."
She had a pretty harrowing time of it, dodging the Islamic extremists who were trying to kill her there for a while. I don't know if she is still in danger.
I read that book during my little "Black Women of North Africa Islam" themed reading program one year. This was a personal booklist, not some outsider led program.
Included in that reading list of other books was a biography of the Somalian model, the one who was discovered in London. And also there was the bio of an American black woman who wasn't Muslim, if I remember correctly, but she claimed to be the lover of Osama bin Laden. This latter book was pretty far "out there" and was not exactly accepted as fact.
Sam Harris said on his podcast that Ayaan was his friend and his hero. Hitch wrote the forward to Infidel. So those are two signs this book should be legit!
The book you posted about is DEFINATELY legitimate. I was rambling about another book, ignore it. I got the bad guys mixed up and had to edit my post, anyway. I skim read a fair number of books and only some of them sink into my brain, but Ayann Ali is straight up brave and strong.
You might find this of interest as well:
Afsaneh Najmabadi's "Professing Selves".
In this book the author talks about Iran's culture of discomfort but acceptance of trans people, while simultaneously denigrating homosexuals.
Well, that is intereresting.
I have a credit for an ebook from the publisher, University of
Chcago, and when I got that credit I thought "when will I ever use it" but now, perhaps, I will, if I can fnd that credit email.
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