Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

From Slate Magazine:

The Infidel Europeans Love To Hate

Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be a role model for Muslim immigrants.

By Anne Applebaum
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, at 7:47 AM ET

For those who haven't encountered her name yet, suffice to say that Hirsi Ali is a European of African descent with an almost American rags-to-riches life story. As a young woman, she escaped from her Somali family while en route to an arranged marriage in Canada, made her way to Holland, learned Dutch, attended university, and eventually won a seat in the Dutch parliament.

Along the way, she also made an intellectual journey—beautifully described in her new book, Infidel—from tribal Somalia, through fundamentalism, and into Western liberalism. After Sept. 11, 2001, horrified by some of the things Osama Bin Laden was saying, she reached for the Quran to confirm a hunch: "I hated to do it," she wrote, "because I knew that I would find bin Laden's quotations in there."

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