Ayaan Hirsi Ali Autobiography

On September 29, Atlas will release the autobiography of the Dutch moderate-conservative feminist, best-selling writer, and former politician (hat tip: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Blog). It is entitled Mijn Vrijheid (My Freedom). The book will discuss her youth in Somalia, her high-profile family (her father was a prominent pro-democracy dissident who was often jailed), the refugee camps and her study in Leiden. The book was going to end with the murder of filmmaker friend Theo van Gogh by an Arab Muslim extremist and her temporary exile in USA after the highly controversial short film, "Submission", and her return to the Dutch Parliament after his murder. Instead, Ms. Hirsi Ali has written an extra chapter about the controversy surrounding her Dutch citizenship - you may recall the controversy a couple of months ago about how she got asylum in the Netherlands back in 1992, even though she had fabricated parts of her asylum application (to which she had admitted since 2003) and how her lawyers were able to successfully appeal that under Somali law she was allowed to use her grandfather's surname - and departure to live in America as she takes a position with the American Enterprise Institute.

My response: damn, didn't she just pump out a book a few months ago? Or rather, The Caged Virgin was just recently made available in the U.S. There had better be stuff in this book that I don't already know if I'm gonna buy it. But if she is media savvy (and she is), the book will be in U.S. stores next month. Good introduction to her with the U.S. media, after her move to USA.