Heretic

Interweaving her personal journey, historical parallels, and powerful examples from contemporary Islamic societies and cultures, Heretic will forever change the debate over Islam and its future.. Courageously engaging fundamentalists on their own turf - religion itself - she boldly calls for a Muslim reformation, identifying five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that must be made in order to break from seventh-century traditions and fully engage with the 21st century. What happened to Islamic reform? Why have al Qaeda and Boko Haram become the faces of contemporary Islam? Why has the Arab Spring devolved into a battle over sharia law? Continuing her personal journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard and American citizenship, the New York Times best-selling author of Infidel and Nomad crafts a powerful call for an Islamic reformation as the only way to end the current wave of global violence and repression of women. Today, millions of Muslims are wrapped in a rigid orthodoxy whereby women are denied education, girls as young as nine can be forced into legal marriages, and men are told that their futures lie not in building better, more j

One of the most important public debates in our time Roger Lipsey Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been conducting for some years now one of the most important public debates in our time and facing immense risk to do so. Her clarity of mind and purpose are stunning. For her there are three camps in Islam: Medina, Mecca, and Reform-minded. Her exposition and critique of their values and stances within the Muslim world and toward the non-Muslim world is uniquely insightful and, I hope, influential where it most counts in the Muslim world and among global political leaders, and among the rest of us who are not just along for the ride; w. "She has spoken out with admirable courage that makes Western apologists for Islam look like the wimps that they are" according to Michael Atkins, PhD. This book should be on the must-read list of every thinking individual in the Western World. It is a clarion alarm to wake up to a brutal and deadly but poorly understood threat. The murderers that she discusses as elements in Islamic State (IS), Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, the Taliban, suicide bombers and other militant groups are psychopaths. That these killers really believe that they are following the dictates of Allah is not questioned here. The Qur’an (as spelled in the book) and the Hadith have provided them with the only rationalization. Heretic Deserves A Hearing Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not the uncomplicated Islamophobe she has been portrayed as. She has a nuanced and important perspective to share. That is not to say that I agree with her every particular. But what is the point of only reading those you whole heartedly agree with? If you are not challenged, how do you learn? Fundamentalist Islam, like all fundamentalist religions, is oppressive to women and non-believers or even different believers. And the facts show that since the 1970s there has been a shift in Islam toward fundamentalism. Because this shift has glo