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Liked It “A definitely worthwhile book to read and it was an easy one to read at that despite that heavy topic. This is really a collection of essays more than anything else. |
Didn’t Like It “I recommend her first book Infidel. But not this one. If you read Infidel you don't need to read this. She goes much more into policy and she hedges on how she feels about Islam. I ended up skimming through quite a bit of this book” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“So far, very well written..very interesting read, very educating into the muslim life style!”
Shi~ wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I recommend her first book Infidel. But not this one. If you read Infidel you don't need to read this. She goes much more into policy and she hedges on how she feels about Islam. I ended up skimming through quite a bit of this book”
Connie F wrote this review Sunday, June 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I think I've made my views on Ayaan Hirsi Ali clear in my review of her other book. Here, I'd like to focus on one quote from this book.
Ligeia by the Rhine wrote this review Friday, January 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
"After the events of 9/11, people who deny this characterization of the stagnant state of Islam were challenged by critical outsiders to name a single Muslim who had made a discovery in science or technology, or changed the world through artistic achievement. There is none."
That isn't stupidest thing I've ever read, but it's certainly in the top five. There are, of course, the scores upon scores of medieval Islamic polymaths such as Avicenna and Al-Khwarizmi, but I imagine to bringing up such men would met with protests that they lived too long ago. Okay, fine. How about Ali Javan; Ahmed Zewail; Akhtar Hameed Khan; Farouk El-Baz; Lotfi Asker Zadeh; Hulusi Behçet; Nima Arkani-Hamed; Mahmoud Hessaby; Jusuf Habibie; Abdus Salam; Abdul Kalam; Mehran Kardar; Munir Nayfeh; Azizul Haque; Abdul Qadeer Khan; Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor; Muhammad B. Yunus; Mehmet Öz and Amir Ansari?
Art wise what about Shirin Neshat, Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Lubna Agha, Tyeb Mehta, İsmail Acar, Shakir Ali, Ismail Gulgee, Jamal Chahal, Ahmed Imamović and Hossein Behzad?
Ayaan seems overly eager to push for the image of Muslims (and for that matter, all inhabitants of the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia) as ignorant, uneducated flea-eating nomads for reasons I can't quite comprehend. Maybe to flatter her presumably Western readers. But for a person who is responsible for so much brouhaha about the threat that Muslims pose to Western society, it's odd that she chooses to portray them this way. Wouldn't it be more frightening to hear about the Muslims who have doctorates in nuclear physics? ”“A definitely worthwhile book to read and it was an easy one to read at that despite that heavy topic. This is really a collection of essays more than anything else.
patriciaofoz wrote this review Thursday, November 29 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
My only qualm about it was the repetitiveness. I guess when it's a series of essays it was bound to turn out that way. The author really gets her point across and it's a heartbreaking story that she tells, of her own life story and of those who she has met.
Recommended.”
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