Nomad:A Personal Journey
May 3rd 2010 15:05
Original Creative Writing:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Link: www.cis.org.au
This woman is a major hero of our times
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
NOMAD
A personal journey through the clash of civiliZations
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
Author of bestselling sensation Infidel
With a fan base that includes Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most controversial and admired political figures. A prominent critic of Islam and fierce proponent of free speech, Hirsi Ali captured the world's attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir.
This June sees the release of her new book, Nomad, in which she conveys an urgent message and mission - to inform the West of the extent of the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies. In Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells of her coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she suffered. It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, more crucially, her emotional journey to freedom - her transition from a tribal mindset that restricts women's every thought and action to a life as a free and equal citizen in an open society. Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values.
Hirsi Ali calls on key institutions of the West - including universities, the feminist movement, and the Christian churches - to enact specific, innovative remedies that would help other Muslim immigrants to overcome the challenges she has experienced and to resist the fatal allure of fundamentalism and terrorism.
Nomad is an important contribution to the history of ideas, but above all a rousing call to action.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI TO VISIT AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE - 29 & 30 JULY
CANBERRA - 31 JULY
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's visit is co-hosted by The Centre for Independent Studies. CIS is AustralasiaÃÂs leading independent public policy think tank, dedicated to the promotion of individual liberty and freedom of speech for all. For more details please visit www.cis.org.au.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, raised a Muslim, and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia. In 1992 she went to the Netherlands as a refugee, escaping a forced marriage to a distant cousin she had never met. She learned Dutch and worked as an interpreter, completed a degree in political science, and then worked for the Labor Party. She denounced Islam after the September 11 terrorist attacks and became a member of the Dutch Parliament, fighting for the rights of Muslim women in Europe, the enlightenment of Islam, and security in the West. She is the author of Infidel and The Caged Virgin.
Praise for Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
For me, the three most beautiful words in the emerging language of secular resistance to tyranny are Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
This moving account by a remarkably brave woman of her personal journey from the pre-modern mindset of nomadic Somali society to a modern Western one provides a searing indictment of the cult of multiculturalism and diversity which are disabling other Muslims in the West from making a similar transition, and making their youth turn to radical Islam and becoming jihadis. More than many academic tomes this personal memoir provides a cogent account of how and why Islam poses the gravest threat to Western liberal societies.
Deepak Lal, James Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Deepak Lal, James Coleman Professor of International Development Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Nomad:A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Published: 1 June 2010
Imprint: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780732289775
TPB: $35.00
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