INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 

Review by Evangeline Weiner

This book is such a page turner. You will read the whole thing  in a matter of a day or two! If you want to understand the Middle Eastern Culture better, and the struggles of many women around the world, you should read this book! This is a story of Ayaan  and her life growing up in a Muslim nation. She discusses everything from female circumcision to arranged marriages. 

She escapes from an arranged marriage to the Netherlands where she ends up in the government and later causes a huge stir in the nation for a documentary she and Mr. Van Gough created titled “Submission.”

 When the film was released, she has to escape for her life as Van Gough was murdered with a note on an knife stabbed into his chest saying “I am coming for Ayaan Hirsi Ali next!”

The New York Times says, “A Somali by birth and a recently elected member of the Dutch Parliament, Ms. Hirsi Ali had waged a personal crusade to improve the lot of Muslim women. Her warnings about the dangers posed to the Netherlands by unassimilated Muslims made her Public Enemy No. 1 for Muslim extremists, a feminist counterpart to Salman Rushdie.”

                                                                                                       —The New York Times

“Holland was trying to be tolerant for the sake of consensus, but the consensus was empty,” she writes. ‘The immigrants’ culture was being preserved at the expense of their women and children and to the detriment of the immigrants’ integration into Holland.’”

                                                                                                          —The New York Times