Infidel
Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, the author's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant. In this memoir she tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. She burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission. This is the story of the coming of age of this political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, she recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, she saw civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum 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. Even though she is under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan, she refuses to be silenced
Autobiography
xii, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780743289689, 9780743295031, 9780743289696, 9780743289689, 0743289684, 074329503X, 0743289692, 0743289684
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My Childhood. Bloodlines
Under the Talal tree
Playing tag in Allah's Palace
Weeping orphans and widowed wives
Secret rendezvous, sex, and the scent of Sukumawiki
Doubt and defiance
Disillusion and deceit
Refugees
Abeh
My Freedom. Running away
A trial by the Elders
Haweya
Leiden
Leaving God
Threats
Politics
The murder of Theo
The letter of the law