Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now Audiobook (Free)

Continuing her trip from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial NYC Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for any Muslim Reformation as the only way to get rid of the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.

Today, she argues, the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, about Heretic: Why Islam Requires a Reformation Now a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali displays, there is absolutely no denying that some of its essential teachings-not least the duty to wage holy war-are incompatible using the ideals of a free society.

For centuries they have seemed as if Islam is immune system to change. But Hirsi Ali provides come to trust that a Muslim Reformation-a revision of Islamic doctrine targeted at reconciling the religious beliefs with modernity-is now at hand, and may even even have started. The Arab Springtime may now seem like a politics failing. But its challenge to traditional power revealed a fresh readiness-not least by Muslim women-to believe freely and to speak out.

Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims need to make to create their religion out of the seventh century and into the twenty-first. And she calls on the , the burkha to end its appeasement of the Islamists. “Islam is not a religious beliefs of tranquility,” she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need our backing, not the competitors of free speech.

Interweaving her own encounters, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a fresh era of global toleration. In the wake from the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this reserve offers an answer to what is fast getting the world’s number 1 problem.