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I believe that the book was very interesting overall. The theme of the book is to show what women are treated like in the religion of Islam and how they are after men in importance. This is something that I already know. The author goes around Islamic areas in the Middle East and researches this and she actually sees first hand. This ties in with our history course because we are learning about Islam and the spread of the religion. The author definitely shows that how bad women are treated. One of the examples the author gives is the fact that a woman cannot get a hotel room unless she is with a man or she is a prostitute. The author shows allot of evidence but it seems like she is being very biased and closed minded. It does not seem like she really give the religion a chance and when she is researching. Like when she said that the fact the woman are treated bad is that the prophet had problems with his wife. This is saying that he made thing up and that god told him, I think that it is not right for her to assume things like this. She also only was focusing on the bad aspects of Islam. Even though she seemed to just look for the negative and did not really keep an open mind the book was very interesting. Like the part that she told about the story of Rahme and Fatin. Reading this book really makes me want to go she what Islam is like and how they treat woman first hand. There is allot of information in this book, the author did allot of research and asked many people to make sure she has enough proof. I think that I was satisfied with the book. She had a very different look on things that I never had really heard and for the most part I had agreed with her on it. The book is written like a journal that she kept. This is a very nice way of writing that keeps you interested instead of boring you. Most of this book seems to be her going though different towns and asking the woman and just really learning about the culture more and I have never read a book like this before but thatâs really what makes this book so interesting.
posted by hakki00 at 2:04 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2009