From my inbox:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali‘s new book, NOMAD: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations is available.
Sam Harris:
There is more wisdom and compassion in this book than can be found in most university libraries–and surely more than has been published in the Muslim world since the time of the Prophet. Nomad is both a moving account of her personal journey out of bondage, and trumpet blast to awaken westerners at all points along the political spectrum: there is a war of ideas that must be waged and won in the Muslim world, and we misunderstand the true tenets of Islam at our peril. Hirsi Ali’s voice and example are simply indispensable. There is no one like her—and we need thousands like her.
Christopher Hitchens:
We are continually forced to confront the notion of Muslim “grievances,” “resentments,” and “humiliations,” as well as compelled to deal with the stone-faced fanatics who are the murderous envoys of such horrible hate-based energy. Here by contrast is the story of a young African woman, born into Islam, who was given every possible occasion to feel grievance, resentment, and humiliation yet who has employed her own life as an example of internationalism, tolerance, multiculturalism, and the redemption of others. Her humor and irony and fortitude constitute the finest counterpoint to the surly cult of death that presses itself against us. For me, the three most beautiful words in the emerging language of secular resistance to tyranny are Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
