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INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali reviews Infidel, shedding light on protecting apostates from Islam and championing freedoms and science.

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Diana, formerly of "Letters from Gotham," reviewsInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali at GNXP Classic. Here's her conclusion:

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And, unlike the chicken littles of the Right blogosphere, I think that is exactly what we are saying, even if in rather mumblingly, hesitantly and stammeringly. That Puerto Rican girl on the subway isn't exchanging her t-shirt that says, "I must, I must, I must improve my bust," for a burqa anymore than our industrialists and molecular biologists and physicists are going to stop thinking and innovating and creating. They are an army much more powerful than the Quran, yes. We will insist, acidly, on our freedoms, on our laws, on our science, and our crummy t-shirts. If the Muslims in our midst can't handle it, that's their problem. And we will protect the apostates from Islam who come to our free societies for refuge. If Hirsi Ali has helped us to focus our minds on that task, she deserves our gratitude.

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