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Since the internet has been off, I just finished Hirsi Ali's latest book. Quite interesting. Part of it is about her intellectual struggles defining how one must overcome a tribal mentality and learn about modernity.

She also writes lamenting the failure of the US/European intellectuals in opposing women's lack of freedom by those who cite multiculturalism to defend cultures that allow forced marriages, female genital mutilation, and honor killing... Her defense of women's freedom reminds me of Mary Wollstonecraft's fight against the patriarchy.

but her observations on how militant Islam is being funded to infiltrate the immigrant communities with their propaganda bodes ill for the west since no one is allowed to mention such things....this is a world wide problem thanks to Saudi funding of mosques and training immans: for example, even though the veiling of women here in SEAsia was rare in the past, it is now becoming more common...,.

and the failure of the press to show the propaganda of the Islamic world is one of the shortcomings of the US press: I mean, Al Jezeerah is mild next to a lot of what is written: think Art Bell and you are closer to what people are being fed.

I read it from a sociological/cultural standpoint, but her intellectual arguments on the nature of Islam (she even quotes the Pope on this) do need to be adressed if Islam is to reform and not step backward. Alas, when even the Amazon reviews from US publications criticize her book for condemning Islam, one suspects that such subjects are taboo among the intellectuals.

FLP podcast on her earlier book HERE.
FLP podcast on this book HERE.