Wanted women faith, lies, and the war on terror : the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui
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- ISBN: 9780062097958 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0062097954 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource ([8] p. of plates) : ill. - Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, c2012.
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Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Regarding the West -- Acting -- Being regarded. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Hirsi Ali, Ayaan -- 1969- Ṣiddiqī, ʻAfiyah -- 1972- Muslim women -- Social conditions Muslim women -- Political activity Women in Islam Islamic fundamentalism |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
Scroggins illuminates not only the disconnect between the West's often one-dimensional perception of Islam and its multifaceted reality but the schisms within Islam itself through the "weird symmetry" in the lives of two women--Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui.