Infidel Book Review

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali is considered an autobiography, this book describes the hardships of her life. The first memory she talks about is of her grandmother forcing her to memorize her ancestry, which she failed to do and this resulted in her being beaten by her grandmother. The setting of the books is always changing, as her mother was doing the best she could to raise her children the proper Islamic way. Examples of some settings are Saudi Arabia, Nairobi, and Ethiopia. During her childhood she describes the different treatments she and her sister, Haweya, would receive from being girls. Mahad, her bother was allowed to play outside while the girls were learning baarri, which is a concept of complete submission to their husbands and the Quran. During her teenage years she would consisted being looking for answers in her religion related to the inequality of such. She would also being beaten daily by her mother who was mad at her own life as she was left without the protection of her husband, her son was a rebel, and her daughter was dressing like an infidel.
After an arrange marriage, she escaped to Holland where she …show more content…
The simple fact of being a women makes you impure as you approach puppetry and have menstruation. This concept of impureness lead to a horrible tradition, which having the female genitalia “carved out or scraped off”, and then being sew close. This traditions derived from the Islamic religion and they affect the social life. For example if you are not circumcised the other kids would make fun of you or called you “impure”. Women were not expected to work in real jobs, their work was to raise the children and teach them the Quran. When the children were at least eight or six they would be send to Quran School where they would learn the Quran by memory and were not allow to ask questions related to the meaning of those