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| Title | : | Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations |
| Author | : | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | May 18th 2010 by Free Press (first published April 1st 2010) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Religion. Autobiography. Memoir. Politics. Islam |
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"This woman is a major hero of our time." —Richard DawkinsAyaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of 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 mind-set 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.
In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society. She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who had disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well as with her mother and cousins in Somalia and in Europe.
Nomad is a portrait of a family torn apart by the clash of civilizations. But it is also a touching, uplifting, and often funny account of one woman’s discovery of today’s America. While Hirsi Ali loves much of what she encounters, she fears we are repeating the European mistake of underestimating radical Islam. She 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.
This is Hirsi Ali’s intellectual coming-of-age, a memoir that conveys her philosophy as well as her experiences, and that also 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. A celebration of free speech and democracy, Nomad is an important contribution to the history of ideas, but above all a rousing call to action.
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| Original Title: | Nomad. From Islam to America. A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations |
| ISBN: | 1439157316 (ISBN13: 9781439157312) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | George W. Bush, Pim Fortuyn, Mohammed Bouyeri, Theo van Gogh, Rita Verdonk, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sarah Palin, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Salman Rushdie, John Stuart Mill, Christopher Hitchens, Saddam Hussein, Anwar al-Awlaki, Muhammad, Max Weber, Pamela Bone, Nidal Malik Hasan, Allah, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Pope Benedict XVI, Hirsi Magan Isse, Irshad Manji, Wafa Sultan, Ibn Warraq, Kurt Westergaard, Tariq Ramadan, Rowan Williams, Germaine Greer, Taida Pasić, Haweya Hirsi Magan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Setting: | Amsterdam,2004(Netherlands) Dallas, Texas,2007(United States) |
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Blast you Marty Moss-Coane! I was going to buy this book when it came out in paperback, mostly because I enjoyed Infidel. Then who does Marty Moss-Coane have on Radio Times? Yes, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As usual for Moss-Coane, it was an excellent interview and made it impossible for me to wait for the book to come out in paperback. (As an aside, Radio Times is one of the reasons why NPR should be supported. Excellent, unbiased interviews. Hurtful to your wallet though).This book is not a sequel orShe is a courageous woman but this book, I'm sorry to say, is disappointing, disjointed and ranting.
First of all I am going to point you to my friend Milan's review.To my surprise he touched all the subjects in the book that I wanted to.Milan's great reviewTo be honest this book was very hard for me to read. Why? Because she warned us so many years ago and it seems that the people have had it with all the immigration and the wrong ways of treating this subject. It is affecting many people's daily life but the politicians do not listen and keep on muddle cuddling them to the expense of the
Religion has always mystified me, even as a kid.When I heard about the whole "no meat on Friday" thing as a young grade schooler, I immediately - and for years afterward - assumed that these people would get sick if they ate a wrong food on a specific day. Catholics obviously had different digestive systems. Seemed logical. Same with that whole kosher deal. HOLY SHIT, A FORK THAT HAS TOUCHED PORK WILL MAKE THEM DROP DEAD??!!!? D: Silly me assumed that there was something scientifically valid in
Ok, no more pussy foot'in around about the conflict between tribal and urban, western, traditional. 'In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.'Women, girls bare the weight of Islamic violence of male domination; physically, legally, psychologically. Female genital
"All human beings are equal, but all cultures and religions are not. A culture that celebrates femininity and considers women to be the masters of their own lives is better than a culture that mutilates girls' genitals and confines them behind walls and veils or flogs or stones them for falling in love. A culture that protects women's rights by law is better than a culture in which a man can lawfully have four wives at once and women are denied alimony and half their inheritance. A culture that
Pretty much like with her first book, Infidel, I picked up this one and wasn't able to put it down.I admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali's courage. She left behind the only world she knew to escape arranged marriage and she built a new life in a completely different society than the one she was taught to live in as a child and teenager. The fact that she has experience of living in both types of society (and she moved through several countries as a child) makes her story and her observations extremely
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