Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations Audiobook (Free)

‘This woman is a significant hero of our period.’ -Richard Dawkins

Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s interest with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the brand new York Moments bestseller list. Today, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new lease of life, an ocean away from the loss of life threats designed to her by Western Islamists, the strife she observed, and the internal conflict she experienced. It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, even more about Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations crucially, her emotional trip to freedom-her transition from a tribal mind-set that restricts women’s every believed and actions to a existence as a free and equal resident in an open society. Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values.

In these webpages Hirsi Ali recounts the countless turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her capability to assimilate into Western society. She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who acquired disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well much like her mother and cousins in Somalia and in European countries.

Nomad is a portrait of a family group torn apart by the clash of civilizations. But it is also a coming in contact with, uplifting, and often funny account of 1 woman’s discovery of today’s America. While Hirsi Ali adores much of what she encounters, she fears we are duplicating the Western european mistake of underestimating radical Islam. She phone calls on key organizations from the West-including colleges, the feminist movement, as well as the Christian churches-to enact particular, innovative remedies that could help various other Muslim immigrants to overcome the challenges she has skilled and to resist the fatal allure of fundamentalism and terrorism.

This is Hirsi Ali’s intellectual coming-of-age, a memoir that conveys her philosophy as well as her experiences, which also conveys an urgent message and mission-to inform the West from the extent from the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies. A special event of free talk and democracy, Nomad can be an important contribution to the annals of ideas, but above all a rousing call to action.