Wanted women
Subtitle: faith, lies, and the war on terror : the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui
By: Deborah Scroggins
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
ISBN-13: 9780060898977
Subjects: Social conditions; Muslim women; Political activity; Islamic fundamentalism; Women in Islam
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [472]-518) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Regarding the West; title: Acting; title: Being regarded.