Posted on 17/03/07
A feminist for the ages ...
InfidelBy Ayaan Hirsi AliFree Press, 350 pages, $32The author of this autobiography is one of the most remarkable and significant public figures of our time. Propelled to world fame by the murder of Theo van Gogh, with whom she made a short film, Submission, about the systematic abuse of women that is sanctioned by Islam, she has remained dignified, modest and above all stalwart in her views. She has no thirst for martyrdom, but will not retreat before the threats of those whose strongest intellectual argument is the slit throat.
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