Best Selling Books by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

"This woman is a major hero of our time." —Richard Dawkins Ayaan 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.

Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities. Today, she argues, the world''s 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that some of its key teachings—not least the duty to wage holy war—are incompatible with the values of a free society. For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune to change. But Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a Muslim Reformation—a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity—is now at hand, and may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a political failure. But its challenge to traditional authority revealed a new readiness—not least by Muslim women—to think freely and to speak out. Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims have to make to bring their religion out of the seventh century and into the twenty-first. And she calls on the Western world to end its appeasement of the Islamists. "Islam is not a religion of peace," she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need our backing, not the opponents of free speech. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this book offers an answer to what is fast becoming the world''s number one problem.

In this political memoir, one of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament. Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries ruled largely by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from family and clan, she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali’s story tells how a bright little girl evolves out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering women’s rights advocate. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.

Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe''s cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants—most of them young men—from Muslim-majority countries. In Prey, the best-selling author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. In 2018 Germany, "offences against sexual self-determination" rose 36 percent from their 2014 rate; nearly two-fifths of the suspects were non-German. In Austria in 2017, asylum-seekers were suspects in 11 percent of all reported rapes and sexual harassment cases, despite making up less than 1 percent of the total population. This violence isn''t a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. It''s a real problem that Europe—and the world—cannot continue to ignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world from institutionalized polygamy to the lack of legal and religious protections for women. A refugee herself, Hirsi Ali is not against immigration. As a child in Somalia, she suffered female genital mutilation; as a young girl in Saudi Arabia, she was made to feel acutely aware of her own vulnerability. Immigration, she argues, requires integration and assimilation. She wants Europeans to reform their broken system—and for Americans to learn from European mistakes. If this doesn''t happen, the calls to exclude new Muslim migrants from Western countries will only grow louder. Deeply researched and featuring fresh and often shocking revelations, Prey uncovers a sexual assault and harassment crisis in Europe that is turning the clock on women''s rights much further back than the #MeToo movement is advancing it.

''È mia intenzione mettere a disagio molte persone: non solo i musulmani, ma anche i difensori occidentali dell''Islam. Voglio sfidare secoli di ortodossia religiosa con idee e argomenti che, sono certa, saranno definiti eretici: l''Islam non è una religione di pace." Impegnata da sempre nella difesa dei diritti umani, con opinioni radicali che le sono già valse una fatwa, Ayaan Hirsi Ali è una delle voci più potenti e controverse del mondo islamico. In questo libro tesse insieme analogie storiche ed esempi illuminanti della società musulmana contemporanea per denunciare la violenza che pervade le dottrine e i testi sacri islamici. Perché, se davvero vogliamo fermare la violenza politica perpetrata in nome della fede, è indispensabile una riforma radicale. Solo così, e con una presa di posizione chiara dell''Occidente, sarà possibile costruire un Islam libero dalla sharia, dal terrorismo e dall''oppressione delle donne: "Non vedo altra via, per noi, verso il futuro: altra via, almeno, che non sia disseminata di cadaveri".

Una relevante y enardecedora novedad para el debate actual sobre migración. «Este libro trata de la inmigración masiva, la violencia sexual y los derechos de las mujeres en Europa. Trata de un fracaso colosal por parte de la clase dirigente europea. Y trata de las soluciones al problema, de las falsas y de las reales. »En los últimos años, el debate en torno a la inmigración, la integración y el islam en Europa se ha intensificado en respuesta a los atentados terroristas, a la prédica de un islam radical en algunas mezquitas y centros de culto, al resurgimiento de partidos populistas y de extrema derecha, y a la reciente llegada de una gran cantidad de inmigrantes procedentes de Oriente Próximo, África y Asia meridional, en particular (pero no solo) en 2015 y 2016. Si bien el flujo de inmigrantes ha disminuido en los últimos dos años, hay todavía muchos que intentan cruzar el Mediterráneo o alcanzar Europa por otras vías. Una consecuencia de todo ello es el cambio en la situación de la mujer que se ha producido en Europa. Ese cambio es el tema de este libro.» Ayaan Hirsi Ali La crítica ha dicho... «Ayaan Hirsi Ali es una de las figuras políticas más controvertidas de Europa, y objetivo de terroristas. Una voz suave pero apasionada.» The Boston Globe «Una figura valiente, elegante y honesta. Una mente abierta liberada de los viejos marcos de la derecha y la izquierda. Instintiva y profundamente antiautoritaria, seguirá haciendo preguntas difíciles.» The Observer «Una figura carismática. De belleza hipnotizante, escribe con un sentido del humor y una sensatez asombrosos.» Christopher Hitchens

Das wichtigste Buch zur Islam-Debatte: Ayaan Hirsi Ali und ihr Plädoyer für eine Reformation des Islam Ihre eigene Biographie und intime Kenntnis der islamischen Gesellschaften und Kultur sowie ihre Forschungen machen Ayaan Hirsi Ali zu einer der wichtigsten Stimmen in der Debatte über den Islam. Ihr neues, von Optimismus getragenes Buch, an dem sie seit Jahren arbeitet, kommt im richtigen Moment: Es nimmt die Terroranschläge in Paris zum Ausgangspunkt, bietet fundierte Einordnung und Hintergründe, vor allem aber bezieht Hirsi Ali klar Stellung: gegen einen erstarrten Islam und dessen Tolerierung durch den Westen. Und für eine Reformation ihrer Religion durch die Muslime, die sie bereits auf dem Weg sieht.

I sin nya bok argumenterar Ayaan Hirsi Ali för att en reformation kan få slut på terrorismen, den sekteristiska krigföringen och förtrycket av kvinnor och minoriteter som varje år kräver tusentals liv. Hon uppmanar västvärlden att inte längre söka försoning med de radikala islamisterna och att sluta kalla dem som opponerar sig mot dem för islamofober. Uppmärksamheten borde riktas mot de reformsinnade muslimerna, inte det fria ordets fiender. Med briljant skärpa vädjar denna karismatiska och kompromisslösa författare för en fredlig förändring och en ny tolerant attityd över hela världen.

In De maagdenkooi zijn essays en lezingen bijeengebracht die Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2003 hield, aangevuld met haar ervaringen als tolk voor Somalische vrouwen in Blijf-van-mijn-lijfhuizen en asielcentra. Met haar onverschrokken optreden schaart Ayaan Hirsi Ali zich in internationale gelederen van vrouwen, die allen de strijd aanbinden met de onderdrukking van vrouwen door de islam.

This work offers a collection of essays that brings together writing on a range of issues concerning Islam. It assesses the role of women in Islam both in practice and in theory, the rights of the individual, fanaticism, and Western policies towards immigrant communities.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (f. 1969) fortæller om sin opvækst som muslim i Somalia, om flugten til Holland, hvor hun vendte sin religion ryggen, om kampen mod undertrykkelse af kvinder og børn i islams navn og om sin tid som medlem af det hollandske parlament for det liberale parti, VVD.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (f. 1969) fortæller om sin omflakkende opvækst som muslim i Somalia, Saudi Arabien, Ethiopien og Kenya, om flugten til Holland, hvor hun vendte sin religion ryggen, om kampen mod undertrykkelse af kvinder og børn i islams navn og om sin tid som medlem af det hollandske parlament for det liberale parti, VVD