2008-08-02 Better then fiction

It is rare to find a non-fiction book that is as gripping as a good thriller. This one is in the cannot put it down genre. It is such an amazing story that if written as fiction it would have been beyond belief. Here is a woman who goes from communist Somalia to Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Germany, Holland and America. She becomes Dutch and nearly loses her citizenship. In the process she is in part the cause of the fall of the government of The Netherlands. Several times she nearly loses her life. She is accorded the highest security protection ever after her friend is murdered in the name of Islam. After 9:11 she renounces her faith and becomes the infidel of her title. She insists that the real Islam is not the religion of peace but the motivator of terrorists. She has devoted her life to exposing the Islamic mistreatment of women. Her description of her own genital mutilation and that of other Somali women is horrific reading. But as well as this horror and that of the disintegration of her country as Siad bare fled, there is delight here. Her innocent description of her marvel newly arrived in Europe is beautiful. She asks how can these counties of unbelievers run so well with polite and helpful police? If Islam is so right and superior, how come Islamic countries like her own are in such a mess?

She is compassionate and caring to her family which forces her into marriage against her will and then disowns her. She becomes a Dutch MP only to be forced out of her new home by Muslim hatred. She exposes the folly of multiculturalism, the liberal Western folly of thinking Islam and democracy are compatible. She is a brave woman. Pity about the atheism.