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[2006]
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Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Hirsi Ali's meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. This controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression...
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[2002]
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"All the people of Afghanistan have suffered under the rule of the Taliban, but women live especially difficult lives. They are denied basic human rights, forced to drape themselves completely and kept in seclusion.".
"This book addresses the historical, religious and political factors that shape the national identity of Afghan women, thus elevating our understanding of their abuse, imprisonment and murder. Interviews with Afghan women provided by...
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[2003]
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"Dalia was a young, beautiful Arabian Muslim living with her family in Amman, Jordan. At the age of twenty-five, she unexpectedly fell in love with Michael, a major in the Royal Army, and a Catholic. For a Muslim woman, any relationship with a Catholic man is forbidden, and Dalia was only too aware that flouting this rule could cost her her life." "But they were deeply in love, and with the help of Dalia's lifelong friend, Norma, with whom she ran...
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