chapter 22 documents

progress islam- In the early 21st century Osama bin Laden, whose al-Qaeda organization launched the attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001 and called for the overthrow of compromised governments in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Islamic world. A lot of Muslims shared a bin Laden's outage at the sorry state of many Muslim societies as well as his opposition to heavy U.S. backing for the state of Israel and to American military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bin Laden and his followers were certainly not the only voices laying claim to Islam in the aftermath of 9/11. All across the Islamic world others argues that Muslims could retain their distinctive religious sensibility while embracing democracy women rights technological progress freedom of thought and religious pluralism. Thinkers were following the tradition of the 19th century Islamic modernism even as they recalled earlier centuries of Islamic intellectual and scientific achievement and religious tolerance.

Abandoning islam
Most muslims has been evolution of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali immigrant to the Netherlands and later to the U.S. who repudiated much of her Somali culture and Islamic faith. She was born in 1969, she was the daughter of a prominent political opponent of the Somali government. Fleeing the country with her family, she spent much of her childhood in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya where she was attracted for a time to a strict form of Islam. As a teenager she was willingly wore a hijab the traditional covering often prescribed for muslim women. Later in 1992 she had an arranged marriage to a man she regarded as a bigot and an idiot and found political asylum in the Netherlands. She was disowned  by her father. In the Netherlands she flourished moving from work as a cleaner to the of a translator in a refugee center and obtaining a masters degree in the process.