Best Selling Books by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Internationally bestselling author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America, recounting dramatic stories of her family and the challenges they faced adapting to Western society as Muslim immigrants. 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 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.

A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English.

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 freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.

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.

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

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.

Frau sein im Islam heißt Unterordnung: unter Gott, Vater, Bruder, Familie, Clan

Een hecht betoog en tegelijk een meeslepend verhaal over een van de grootste problemen van onze tijd: de botsing tussen de westerse samenlevingen en de islam. Van over de hele wereld hebben lezers van Mijn vrijheid mij enorm gesteund en geïnspireerd. Maar ze hebben me ook een aantal vragen gesteld die ik niet in dat boek heb behandeld. Ze vroegen naar de rest van mijn familie. Ze vroegen naar de ervaring van andere moslimvrouwen. Keer op keer werd me de vraag gesteld: Hoe typerend was jouw ervaring? In hoeverre ben jij representatief? Nomade beantwoordt die vraag. Het boek gaat niet alleen over mijn leven als zwerver in het Westen. Het gaat ook over het leven van de vele immigranten die naar het Westen komen; de filosofische en heel reële problemen van mensen, met name vrouwen, die in een hermetisch gesloten traditionele moslimcultuur leven, binnen een volstrekt open cultuur. Het gaat over hoe islamitische idealen botsen met Westerse idealen. Het gaat over de botsing van beschavingen die ikzelf en miljoenen anderen hebben doorgemaakt en nog steeds doormaken.'''' In Nomade gaat Ayaan Hirsi Ali verder waar ze in Mijn vrijheid was gebleven. Ze laat de waan achter zich dat ze een thuis heeft gevonden in Nederland, en trekt naar Amerika, opnieuw een nomade. Onderwijl beschrijft ze haar wortels en haar ontworteling, haar jeugd en familie. Ze vertelt schokkende en ontroerende verhalen over haar moeder en grootmoeder, broer en halfzusjes, neven en nichten, en mannen en vrouwen voor wie zij tolkte in Nederland. Aan de hand van die verhalen signaleert ze drie aspecten die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de botsing van islam met het Westen: seks, geld en geweld. Ze roept westerse feministen, humanisten en christenen op zich te verenigen teneinde het lot van moslimvrouwen te verbeteren en de radicalisering onder jongeren te bestrijden. Ze draagt suggesties aan voor verbetering van de integratie, voor de bevrijding van moslimvrouwen en ter bestrijding van de radicalisering. Nomade is een hecht betoog en tegelijk een meeslepend verhaal, geschreven met passie en met een flinke dosis wrange humor. Ayaan Hirsi Ali neemt de lezer mee op een spannende tijdreis, van de archaïsche tijden van een clancultuur naar onze huidige tijd en de moderne, liberale samenlevingen in het Westen, waarin zij de achtergronden beschrijft en oplossingen zoekt voor een van de grootste problemen van onze tijd: de botsing tussen de westerse samenlevingen en de islam.

Sie ist Abgeordnete, Bestsellerautorin, "Europäerin des Jahres 2006", wurde zu einer der wichtigsten Frauen der Welt gewählt - aber vor allem ist Ayaan Hirsi Ali eine Frau, die für die Rechte der muslimischen Frauen, für die westlichen Werte und für die Freiheit kämpft. Das hat seinen Preis: Jeden Tag muß sie damit rechnen, daß islamische Fanatiker sie töten wollen, nie kann sie einen Schritt ohne Bewachung tun. Jetzt erzählt sie, wie aus einem Flüchtling aus Afrika eine "politisch-intellektuelle Kämpferin mit den Looks eines Pariser Models und der Schärfe einer Anklägerin vor dem Haager Strafgerichtshof" (Werner A. Perger, Die Zeit) wurde. Streng muslimisch erzogen, beginnt sie früh aufzubegehren: dagegen, daß es ihr einziges Lebensziel sein soll, Söhne zu gebären, daß sie jeden Abend für den Tod aller Juden beten muß, gegen die Zwangsheirat.

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.

»›Beute‹ warnt uns davor, unsere größte Errungenschaft aufs Spiel zu setzen: die Herrschaft des Rechts.« Henry A. Kissinger Nicht alle muslimischen Männer verachten Frauen, manche allerdings schon. Ayaan Hirsi Ali benennt in ihrem Buch eine unbequeme Wahrheit, der wir ins Auge blicken müssen: Viele muslimische Männer haben ein radikal anderes Frauenbild, als es bei uns üblich ist. Mit der verstärkten Zuwanderung aus muslimischen Ländern nimmt die Gewalt gegen Frauen nachweislich zu, und Frauen werden dadurch in ihrer Bewegungsfreiheit immer stärker eingeschränkt. Nicht nur muslimische Frauen, sondern alle Frauen in westlichen Demokratien. Falsche Toleranz, so Hirsi Ali, hilft hier nicht weiter. Denn wir laufen Gefahr, unsere hart erkämpften Freiheitsrechte zu verlieren. Nur indem wir die Probleme klar benennen und die Bedrohung emanzipatorischer Errungenschaften durch Einwanderer aus muslimisch-arabischen Kulturkreisen anerkennen, nehmen wir Populisten den Wind aus den Segeln. Und nur dann kann Integration erfolgreich sein.

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, femme politique néerlandaise d''origine somalienne, est une voix qui tranche dans le débat sur l''islam. Sa notoriété a dépassé le cadre des Pays-Bas lorsque, le 2 novembre 2004, le cinéaste Theo Van Gogh, avec lequel elle avait réalisé le film Submission, a été assassiné à Amsterdam. Condamnée à mort par les fondamentalistes, Ayaan Hirsi Ali doit aujourd''hui vivre sous protection permanente. Mais elle poursuit son combat. Dans ce livre, elle dresse un constat alarmant. Mariages transformés en viols, excision : Ayaan Hirsi Ah plaide pour l''égalité entre les hommes et les femmes dans le monde musulman, et pour un " autre islam ". Elle fustige aussi l''irresponsabilité des démocrates européens qui, au nom de la tolérance, demeurent souvent sans réaction face à cette violence : la culture musulmane a besoin de connaître son siècle des Lumières.

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

Fille d''un opposant célèbre à la dictature de Siyad Barré, en Somalie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali a connu l''exil très jeune, puis la détresse d''une vie de réfugiée. Contrainte à l''excision, vouée à un mariage forcé, elle s''échappe pour trouver asile aux Pays-Bas. Elle y deviendra une femme libre, défiant, en même temps que les lois des siens, les barrières politiques, raciales et les menaces d''islamistes fondamentalistes. Elle est aujourd''hui une figure emblématique de la lutte pour un " islam des Lumières ". De son enfance dans la misère de Mogadiscio au Parlement néerlandais où elle fut élue en janvier 2003, l''itinéraire extraordinaire, à la fois intime et intellectuel, d''une jeune rebelle.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali atraiu atenção mundial com o livro de memórias Infiel, que ficou 31 semanas na lista de best-sellers do New York Times e conta sua infância e adolescência na Somália, na Arábia Saudita, na Etiópia e no Quênia sob o rigor do islamismo, até chegar à Holanda, onde se tornou uma das principais críticas do islã e defensora dos direitos das mulheres. Agora, em Nômade, ela narra sua mudança para os Estados Unidos em busca de uma nova vida, longe dos islamitas europeus que a ameaçaram de morte. Nesta história da transição da vida tribal à cidadania plena em uma democracia ocidental, Ayaan relata as reviravoltas em sua vida após o rompimento com a família, que a renegou quando ela renunciou ao islã depois do Onze de Setembro. De forma comovente, a escritora somali relata sua reconciliação com a mãe e os primos, e com o pai no leito de morte. Nômade é o retrato de uma família dilacerada pelo choque de civilizações, mas também é um relato sensível, otimista e muitas vezes divertido da descoberta dos Estados Unidos por uma mulher que teme que o país esteja repetindo o erro europeu de subestimar o islã radical. Ayaan convoca instituições ocidentais - como o movimento feminista e as igrejas cristãs - a pôr em prática ações para ajudar outros imigrantes muçulmanos a superar os obstáculos que ela vivenciou em sua assimilação à sociedade ocidental e a resistir à sedução do fundamentalismo. Uma celebração da liberdade de expressão e dos valores democráticos, o mais recente livro de Ayaan Hirsi Ali representa o amadurecimento intelectual da escritora. É também uma importante contribuição para a história das ideias e, acima de tudo, um chamado à ação. “Esta mulher é uma grande heroína dos nossos tempos.” - Richard Dawkins “A voz e o exemplo de Hirsi Ali são simplesmente indispensáveis. Não há ninguém como ela - e precisamos de milhares como ela.” - Sam Harris “Para mim, as três mais belas palavras na linguagem emergente da resistência secular à tirania são Ayaan Hirsi Ali.” - Christopher Hitchens “Leitores de Infiel de todas as partes do mundo me ofereceram grande apoio e me encorajaram muito. Mas também me fizeram perguntas sobre assuntos que não abordei naquele livro. Perguntaram sobre o restante da minha família. Perguntaram sobre a vivência de outras muçulmanas. Foram muitas as vezes em que ouvi a seguinte pergunta: até que ponto seu relato poderia ser considerado típico? Você se considera de alguma forma representativa? Nômade é uma resposta a essa pergunta.”

®La dram...tica història d''una revolució personal, d''un desvetllament polític. ̄ ALIGN=LEFTDie Zeit/ALIGN ®Els nostres polítics haurien de llegir els seus llibres per a saber una mica de quins vímets est... fet l''enfrontament amb l''islam. ̄ ALIGN=LEFTElvira Lindo, El País/ALIGN Educada estrictament en la confessió musulmana, Ayaan Hirsi Ali va comen‡ar a rebelúlar-s''hi molt aviat: contra l''obligació de resar cada nit demanant la mort de tots els jueus, contra el matrimoni for‡at i contra la perspectiva que la seva única funció en la vida hagués de ser portar fills al món. Com a refugiada als Països Baixos, primer va treballar netejant, com a intèrpret i com a treballadora social per a sobreviure. El seu ímpetu i la seva for‡a de voluntat la van dur a estudiar Ciències Polítiques en la universitat més antiga d''Holanda, a convertir-se en diputada al Parlament des del 2002 i a ser reconeguda com una de les dones públiques més importants i més respectades en l''...mbit internacional. Després d''un intent finalment fracassat de retirar-li la ciutadania neerlandesa, el 2006 es va traslladar als Estats Units, des d''on continua amb la seva lluita pels drets de les dones musulmanes, pels valors d''Occident i per la llibertat. En aquesta esplèndida autobiografia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali aprofundeix els esdeveniments que han perfilat el drama d''una vida exemplar, i ho fa amb una contundència que no deixar... ningú indiferent.