DoZ reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel.
A book like this is difficult to review, especially for someone who has lived a life that is charmed, especially when compared with Ali’s. It feels churlish to disagree with her opinions. For it is well nigh impossible to establish any sense of authority in your disagreement, without having so much as encountered a fraction of the difficulties this woman’s survived. On the other hand, agreeing with her also doesn’t feel completely right – it feels in fact, like just the sort of thing a liberal westerner would do, fueled by equal parts of condescension and bewilderment at this alien world she hails from.
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