Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"I Accuse", Ayaan compiles her polemic speeches and essays in which she clamours for an erudite period for Islam and for the West to facilitate the creation of a Voltaire generation in the Muslim world
For that reason, she is opposed to any integration policy for immigrants based on principles of multiculturalism, which, according to her, allows the permanence of cultural and religious norms that slow down the emancipation process of the Muslim people.
I think this is a courageous book, knowing that the author has been threatened with death and her friend, the filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was killed for denouncing the unjust situations that many women still suffer in Islamic countries. I find very accurate her reflection that respecting a culture or religion does mean that one should remain silent about its injustices, or not denounce them as, unfortunately, the West does with its policy of defending multiculturalism, which amounts to cowardice. We are always talking about justice and human rights, but we really do almost nothing to achieve them. (Por: a30s)
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Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Althoug the beginning of the book seemed a bit complicated, I enjoyed it very much as it makes a very good and revealing analysis of the "big brother" phenomenon and the real truth behind it.
What's also interesting is its analysis of labour relationships in today's world. About how there are increasingly less rules and more chaos, less loyalty and more individualism. A world that changes faster than our capacity to adapt to the new situations. And the worst thing is that this situation hasn't come about by chance, but that it is fostered by political, economic and social powers that benefit from this chaos and facilitate a state in which the less scruples one has, the higher social status one can achiev. (Por: a30s)
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