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In Heretic: Why Islam Needs A Reformation Now. Bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad: From Islam to America, A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, asks why the borders of Islam are so bloody. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration. With jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this book offers an answer to what has already become the world’s number one security issue. Ayaan Ali has received death threats as a result of writing this book. At least the threats are testament to the fact that words and ideas have power; and rather than the coercion and intimidation of fundamentalists or the tragic group think of the West, ideas need to be debated on open plains, people need to learn to think for themselves. Fundamentalists claim this controversial book is anti-Muslim; rather the author urges Muslims to return to the original beauties of their faith, to the first preachings of Mohammed, to a religion of peace, love, tolerance and compassion. But in these times of peril, in The Age of Terror, it is also vital that the terrible societies created by secular Western democracies, all of them in decay, take a good look at themselves and learn to value their own citizens, rather than discard them in the brutal cruelties of modern capitalism, globalisation, misguided laws and failed social policies. The Sharia is taking hold in the West precisely because it is vulnerable.