She has the high cheekbones and long, lean body of a fashion model. She has the eyes of a seeker of truths. She has the background of an Islamic terrorist.

Her name is Ayaan Hirsi Ali and she wrote the book, Infidel. She is so intelligent, brave, and beautiful, I wonder that I cannot look up to the heavens and see a trail of stardust igniting the darkness behind her as she streaks like a comet across the sky.

Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia. She was brought up in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Infidel is about what it is like to be raised Muslim and to have absolutely no option of exercising her intellect, her emotions, or her free will because she is, was, and will always be female.

At age 22, she fled an arranged marriage to Europe and settled in Holland. To her horror, she discovered that all of the oppressions to which Islamic women were subjected had emigrated, with Muslim families, to the West. It was then that she made her decision: “The most important thing I could do with my life was expose the reality of those women’s lives to people in power and make sure that existing laws demanding equality between the sexes were applied. Mine was a combat of action, not ideas. I should stand for Parliament.”