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With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission. Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech.
In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission. Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a devout believer during the rise of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament.
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