How would your family and friends react if you denounced your faith and separated yourself from all that they believed in?

Some critics say that Hirsi Ali sounds as "single-minded and reactionary as the zealots she's worked so hard to oppose." Do you agree with this?

If someone were to denounce American life, what would be some of the main critisms they would have against American beliefs and life?

Hirsi Ali believes that women are mistreated and abused by men in Islam, but most of her abuse came at the hands of her mother and grandmother. Why do you think she blames men and Islam?

Do you feel manipulated by Hirsi Ali and do you think she told the story fairly?

In her Epilogue, Hirsi Ali suggests several reasons why people think she might have written this book as well as giving her own...