Ayaan Hirsi Ali reads from her book “Infidel”

Bestseller recounts author's Muslim childhood

February 2, 2015

Ayaan Hirsi Ali reads from her forthcoming book "Heretic"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali reads from her bestselling book Infidel at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago. The 2008 book shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs and 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.

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. – See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Infidel/Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali/9780743289696#sthash.ktH1XOUp.dpuf
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. – See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Infidel/Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali/9780743289696#sthash.ktH1XOUp.dpuf

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