Continuing her trip from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial NYC Instances and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling article author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only path to get rid of the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities.

Today, she argues, the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, about Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Today a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that some of its essential teachings-not least the duty to income holy war-are incompatible with the values of a free society.

For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune system to change. But Hirsi Ali has come to trust a Muslim Reformation-a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity-is today at hand, and may even have begun. The Arab Springtime may now seem like a political failure. But its challenge to traditional expert revealed a fresh readiness-not least by Muslim women-to believe freely and to speak out.

Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims have to make to create their religion from the seventh century and in to the twenty-first. And she phone calls on the , the burkha to end its appeasement from the Islamists. “Islam is not a religion of peacefulness,” she writes. It’s the Muslim reformers who want our backing, not really the opponents of free conversation.

Interweaving her have experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a contact to hands, but a passionate plea for peaceful modify and a fresh era of global toleration. In the wake from the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this reserve offers an response to what is fast becoming the world’s number one problem.