This book is laughable. Jasmine bases her understanding on Islam on what she has read in the Ibn Warraq, Irshad Manji, and Fatima Merrissni books. She tries to use the "feminist" approach and miscontextualizes Islam, its law, and the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The content of her book can easily be refuted by the works of Muslim Women scholars like Aisha Bewley who wrote the book Islam: The Empowering of Women which gives scholarly evidence and history behind Islam and the role of women. According to Aisha Bewley, Islamic civilization has produced Muslimah business women, scholars, and politicians. A far cry to what Jasmine puts in her book. Even in the Cambridge Illustrated History of the Muslim World shows a section on how Islam has produced scholars and great women. Aisha Bewley also wrote Muslim Women: A Biographical Dictionary which shows through the centuries how Muslim women from the time of the Prophet Muhammad to the late 15th century. This is just cutting the surface. Many Muslim women writers and scholars have wrote works to refute the Feminist attack on Islam. Jasmine's book which was published during the big trend of "I hate Islam" books since 9/11, is just one of many terrible books that perpetuate the bigotry toward Islam and Muslims. This book honestly isn't worth a star. Jasmine frequents Islamic chats on AOL and belittles Muslims and Islam constantly. A matter of fact her buddies from AOL chat are the only ones who gave her five stars. This book should be looked at with caution. Its far from scholarly and compared to the books by Aisha Bewley and others, it shouldn't be taken seriously. She has no expertise or degree in anykind of Islamic studies nor uses any scholarly books to back up her claims. She instead takes Quranic verses and hadiths out of context to reinforce the illusion that Islam oppresses women. Her book is laughable and joins the list of Islamaphobe literature littering our bookstores further miseducating Americans about the fastest growing religion in the world.

After having seen the woman shot in the soccer field and having seen the women in Kashmir wearing their "beekeeper" clothes , I was afraid to write a review on this book.
I applaud Jasmine Layne for having written this book and i know that she did so with as much apprehension as i have in writing a review. Ms Layne did a great deal of research and soul searching before writing her book.
I wish that Islamic males would realize that hiding women, and denying them voting rights and education is not the same as love and protection.
In an age of communication and words Islam is shutting out the best half of their population. Islam has to adapt or die off. I'm so glad that Jasmine Layne had the ideals and the courage to write this book. I stand and applaud.