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"Ayaan Ali Hirsi makes a powerful case that a religious Reformation is the only way to end the terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities that each year claim thousands of lives throughout the Muslim world"--Publisher. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: One Islam, three sets of Muslims
- The story of a heretic : my journey away from Islam
- Why has there been no Muslim Reformation?
- Muhammad and the Qur'an : how unquestioning reverence for the Prophet and his book obstructs reform
- Those who love death : Islam's fatal focus on the afterlife
- Shackled by sharia : how Islam's harsh religious code keeps Muslims stuck in the seventh century
- Social control begins at home : how the injunction to command right and forbid wrong keeps Muslims in line
- Jihad : why the call for holy war is a charter for terror
- The twilight of tolerance
- Conclusion: The Muslim Reformation
- Appendix: Muslim dissidents and reformers.