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# Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

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From Publishers Weekly
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		After a harrowing childhood lived according to a particularly strict interpretation of Muslim law, Somali-born Ali (Infidel) escaped to Europe rather than move to Canada to marry a man she&apos;d never met. Arriving in Holland, she soon became an international cause c&#xE9;l&#xE8;bre for her willingness to publicly denounce the uglier sides of Islamic culture, particularly as in certain regions it oppresses women and girls. Many personal stories are repeated from her earlier accounts, but here Ali adds the story of her immigration to the U.S., and as always, her writing can be moving, as she bares heartrending moments such as her father&apos;s death. But with this third memoir, she has become tiresomely repetitive, and her wholesale condemnation of an entire religion and the multiple cultures it has engendered is so sweeping and comprehensive, and her faith in Western values (particularly her romantic view of Christianity) is so wide-eyed, that the book ultimately reads like a callow exercise in expressing the author&apos;s own sense of aggrievement. (May) Copyright &#xA9; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		While a few critics embraced Hirsi Ali for her intellectual integrity and bravery, most found her indictment of Islam too hard to swallow. Several reviewers argued that it is nearly impossible to generalize about a religion with more than one billion adherents. Others wrote that Hirsi Ali seems both oblivious to situations where Islam has brought peace and meaning into people&apos;s lives and naive about American culture, nomadic as she has been. But even the strongest critics of the book found something to admire in Hirsi Ali&apos;s personal story of survival and self-transformation. That said, if you haven&apos;t read her first memoir, start there--it&apos;s by far the better book.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ms. Hirsi Ali Wasn't Surprised
            
*by R***E on February 24, 2015*

When the president of Brandeis University, Frederick Lawrence, rescinded his offer of an honorary degree for Ayaan Hirsi Ali most of the world was amazed.  Not Ms. Hirsi Ali.  Her message is one of tolerance and free speech, as it has been in earlier books Infidel and The Caged Virgin.  But, as she explains in Nomad, the standard now on university campuses is denial of free speech.  She refers to it as the echo of political correctness.  What Ms. Hirsi Ali discerns about Islam would have been useful to the students and to the school.  Uniquely among religions Islam has a political backbone which is violent and threatening.  There's nothing wrong with the religion of Islam, and if there were it wouldn't be anyone's business except Muslims.  To the extent that shari'a law is inseparable from the spiritual features then Islam must be resisted.  Ayaan Hirsi Ali looks forward to the day when there is an enlightenment, as there was in Christianity, in which rationality replaces Islamic dogma.  Some Muslims would welcome such a split but many do not.  As long as people, including university students, faculty, and administrators refuse to contemplate the possibility that Islam, as practiced in far too many places, is totalitarian, Ms. Hirsi Ali's voice will be heard.  Well, Brandeis won't hear them...
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book of hope
            
*by K***N on November 8, 2017*

I am thoroughly hooked on the writings of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, having finished the second and about to read the third of her books. What a brave woman to have excelled as she has, especially coming from such dire circumstances.  She overcame tremendous hurdles because of her own determination, in order to explore what the world had to offer outside the containment of the existence and barriers built by her family to enclose her and prohibit her from being an independent woman. I have the most respect and admiration I could possibly have for any great lady. She is just that in my eyes. I wish I knew her personally but feel a similar closeness through her words. She does give hope to anyone who feels they know there is more to life than what they may know and she is proud that determination and making intelligent choices make it happen.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EVERY BIT AS GOOD AS 'INFIDEL'; BUT AMAZON EDITOR: INTELLECTUAL COWARD OR APOLOGIST FOR INSTITUTIONAL WOMAN-HATING & TERRORISM?
            
*by C***N on April 20, 2015*

I mean, really.  Does everyone recognize the quite extraordinary oddness in this case, that Amazon's editor has chosen to place the most negative reviews not below where I am now--which would be reasonable and pro-debate and pro-critical thinking, but above this area, in the Editorial section??  This never happens.  What happens instead?  You guys know.  Repeated 5 star reviews often probably from multiple  promotional department employees because after all, this is a book and music selling site.  But look for yourself.  This is quite a highly acclaimed writer and scholar, yet these two embarrasingly unfair critiques from companies such as Publishers Weekly which are NOT the end word of consensus for books in any case, are presented in an elevated position of supposed authority.  So, before any actual reader gets a chance, we are told that "she has become tiresomly reptitive and her wholesale condemnation of an entire religion...(and) her romanitc view of Christianity is so wide-eyed...reads like a callow excuse (for)...the author's own self-entitlement."  Absolute cowardly non-sense.  Then, another: and I'm paraphrasing, read it yourself, tell me I'm wrong" most found her slander of Islam to be oblivious that Islam is all about peace...Infidel is the far better book'.  Why is this stupid tripe placed in this section ?  Cowardice?  I have to wonder/worry, since this kind of thing is so very rare on Amazon, has the Amazon editor been shouted down or even threatended with violence by radical muslim crazies?  Why else be so obviously anti-debate, so anti-critical thinking, and so one-sidedly lock-stepped against Ali's extremely brave and accuate book?To respond to others' misinformation, yes this book does continue where 'Infidel' left off.  Yes, it does contain as centerpiece, a continuation of her Dad story, on her father's deathbed, as she needs protection naturally to be there considering all the death threats from that peaceful religion's true believers.  There's no such thing as wide-eyed ignorance or obliviousness or sense of entitlement--unless one means, that as a female, Ali strongly opines that she should not be forced to marry at age 9 as the prophet modeled, she should not be forced to marry an old geezer in another country who she never met, she should not be forced to have her sexual organs mutilated, and she should not be forced to obey the men in her life because the prophet demanded that females be considered chattle.  You don't like those opinions?  Fine.  But you are wrong.  Live with it.If the motivation for these stupid and embarrasingly inaccurate editorials' placement was not fear of being bombed, then my second theory is that Ali's condemnation of the supposedly well-meaning politically correct cultural relativists who believe that minorities and the darker-skinned cannot be criticized in any way, because that is their religious freedom (to mutilate female sexual organs, to demand arranged marriages for 9 year-old girls, and honor killings because 'that's just the way they are' , and who are we to say, since we (ad hominem?) bomb Iran and our leader was Christian, and we had slaves several hundred years ago, and don't get us started on what we did to the American Indians.  THIS Amazon editor is one of THOSE people who supports ignorant shout-downs of Ali for having the guts to point out that Islam never went through the scrutity that Christianity and the Jews went through during the age of enlightenment.  That's why they have not come to terms--in the mainstream, with down-playing all the old fashioned horriblleness of their holy books, considered some things to be applicable only to that era, considered that mistakes were made since holy books were written by men, and in the specific case of Islam, considered that Mohammed was not like Jesus a peacenik who turned the other cheek and advised others to render onto Caesar what is Caesar's' but a man of war with sword, rather like the old testament's Joshua or David.  Worse even, if possible, is the suggestion that these politically correct do-gooders who like the Amazon editor, want to tell others the "right" way to think, are in themselves, rationalizing and entitling displaced and alienated Muslims (who they believe it is wrong to try to encourage to join the melting pot that is our society) to seek out bomb making materials.  Five stars for this book.  No stars for the cowardly Amazon editor who must deep down hate woman (and free speech/critical thinking/modernity) very very much.
  

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