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 worlds 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 teachingsnot least the duty to wage holy warare 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 Reformationa revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernityis 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 identifie