Customer Reviews:
 The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali March 11, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is awesome and very revealing about the worldview that Muslims have. I highly recommend it for people interested in learning more about Muslims and the way they think and act.
Caged Virgin December 24, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was touched by this woman's struggle to be free. It was not that she was throwing off all restraint. She was throwing off laws that even Abraham did not require of Sarah.
 Stand Up for Your Rights December 6, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman who rose to the rank of a parliamentarian in The Netherlands, has achieved pariah status amongst Islamists for her fervent and perfervid criticisms of Islam, capping their anger by apostasy as she has renounced her religion and become an athiest. This book is a collection of her essays on various topics, centering around the treatment of women in Islamic societies. Her criticisms are lucid and damning. Unfortunately, many of her solutions are bromides and very few specific remedies and concrete solutions are offered. Nonetheless, the fact that the problems she elucidates have been brought to the attention of the general US and European publics is a significant service. Unfortunately, as a result of her efforts, the usual barrage of fatwahs calling for her death have been issued and, more unfortunately, the Dutch government has been craven enough to withdraw her security detail on the pretext that she no longer lives in Holland. The book would have benefited from more careful editing. For example, the chapter explaining her background would be better placed at the beginning, rather than in the middle section of the book. Similarly, fact checking would have disclosed a few howlers, such as her statement that Voltaire wrote in the 1800s when he died before the turn of the century. Allowing for that, the book is well worth reading.
Fundamentalism's Rigid Belief Systems of all kinds October 30, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ms. Ali's description of muslim beliefs remind me of recent events in other fundamentalist communities. Let's not get caught up creating the easy answer that Islam is the core of hatred, violence, fear and abuse. The Funamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs, who was just convicted of rape as an accomplice, also used fear, intimidation and ignorance to control the women and men of the FLDS church. The strongest voice I hear from Ms. Ali's book is one that urges us to question, investigate and discuss.
The problem is.......... September 14, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ayaan Hirsi Ali hits the world problem with terrorism today right on the head. The problem is not bin Laden, the problem is Muhammad and Islam. Read the Quran, and its all there. Islam must be changed. It is a "do or die" situation for us "ALL!"Eva-ChristSee this link for somme radical Christianity.
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