What an amazing woman! I greatly admired the tenacity, integrity and vision of the author and I would recommend it to anyone who cares about how women are treated in the world.
I was raised Mormon and I strongly identified with Ayaan Ali's struggle to free her mind from the inconsistencies, sexism, cruelties and most of all irrationality of religion. Having read much of the Koran and all of the Bible, I think it is fair of her to ask practitioners to take responsibility for the slavery, perversion, cruelty and misogyny these books endorse. As long as people continue to literally follow backwards and ridiculous books written by angry half-educated men who didn't even have the benefit of seeing the middle ages or the enlightenment how can we expect the world to improve? Why is it helpful to be tolerant of intolerance? Women deserve better and men can be better.
I gave this five stars because her actual life story is interesting without any of the philosophy or politics. Her logic is taut and I hope she has great lunches with Rushdie. I'd like to put a fatwah on the jerks that want to kill her, but I feel sorry for them. You must know your religion is pretty indefensible on its own when you have to kill the people that criticize it.