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"This female is a major hero of our own time." —Richard Dawkins
Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her persuasive coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali says of coming to America to create a new lease of life, an ocean from the death threats made to her by Western european Islamists, the strife she observed, and the internal conflict she experienced. It is the account of her physical journey to liberty and, more crucially, her mental journey to liberty—her change from a tribal mind-set that restricts women’s every thought and action to a life as a free and equal resident in an open society. Through experiences of the troubles she has confronted, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Traditional western principles.
In these web pages Hirsi Ali recounts the countless changes her life required after she broke with her family, and exactly how she struggled to toss off restrictive superstitions and myths that at first hobbled her capacity to assimilate into Traditional western society. She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who possessed disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well as with her mother and cousins in Somalia and in European countries.
Nomad is a family portrait of a family torn aside by the clash of civilizations. But it is also a coming in contact with, uplifting, and often funny account of 1 female’s breakthrough of today’s America. While Hirsi Ali loves much of what she encounters, she worries we are duplicating the European blunder of underestimating radical Islam. She message or calls on key corporations of the Western world—including colleges, the feminist motion, and the Christian churches—to enact specific, progressive remedies that could help other Muslim immigrants to defeat the challenges she has experienced and also to resist the fatal allure of fundamentalism and terrorism.
This is Hirsi Ali’s intellectual coming-of-age, a memoir that conveys her idea as well as her experiences, and that also conveys an immediate message and quest—to see the Western world of the level of the danger from Islam, both from outdoors and from in your open societies. A party of free conversation and democracy, Nomad is an important contribution to the annals of ideas, but above all a rousing call to action.
