Monday, April 7, 2008
Infidel
Over spring break I read the book Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a target for terrorists and has to have body gaurds follow her around after writting this book and The Caged Virgin. The book is so controversal because she questions her religion, in the Quran it says that men and women are equal however from her experiences she notices that this is not true. A female can not get in a taxi or buy something at the market unless a male is present, her and her family were stuck at an airport because security wouldn't let them leave unless a male was there with them. It was very interesting and I learned a lot of things about Islam. For instance men and women usually live in seperate parts of a house. They do not eat or pray together. It also helped me with my blaine, she was genitally mutilated by force when she was five years old. I would recomend this book to everyone in the class, it was very interesting to hear her life story and her views today.
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Hi there.
I had the chance to interview Ayaan Hirsi Ali when she was in Australia for the Sydney Writers' Festival. You can listen to that interview here ...
http://www.newmatilda.com/2007/06/12/defence-liberty-through-reason
You can also read my article resulting from that interview here ...
http://www.newmatilda.com/2007/07/25/unreliable-narrator
I also reviewed her book The Caged Virgin here ...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20518436-5003900,00.html
Also another good book to read is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. It is his biography about how he went on a failed journey to climb K2 he ended up in a remote middle eastern town. He then founded an organization to build schools, with an emphasis on girls education in remote parts of pakistan and afghanistan. Good book, very interesting.
Yeah I heard that was a good book... I think Ms. Matthews told me to read that book, unless you were the one that told me Anna?
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