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at the library: Videos on Blu-ray disc. Watch your favorite movies
with the best audio and most vivid video quality available today. Feature
movies on Blu-ray are $1.00 for a week. Remember Blu-ray discs will not
play on a standard DVD player, but if you have a Blu-ray player, a
computer with a Blu-ray drive, or a gaming system (such as the Playstation 3)
which will play a Blu-ray disc,
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collection.
Anyone who wants to safely
operate a boat or jet ski on Michigan waters. Sign up for this free
two-part class taught by Tim Young of the
Ottawa County
Sheriff's Department Marine Unit.
Wednesday, May 7, from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.
Wednesday, May 14, from 5:00 pm - 8:00
pm.
Book Club News
The SLDL Book Club will meet
Wednesday, May 14, at 7:00 pm. The topic for this month's
discussion is
Infidel, by
Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Members are encouraged to read the book and share their
experiences.
From Publishers Weekly
Readers with an eye on European politics will
recognize Ali as the Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament who faced death
threats after collaborating on a film about domestic violence against Muslim
women with controversial director Theo van Gogh (who was himself assassinated).
Even before then, her attacks on Islamic culture as "brutal, bigoted, [and]
fixated on controlling women" had generated much controversy. In this
suspenseful account of her life and her internal struggle with her Muslim faith,
she discusses how these views were shaped by her experiences amid the political
chaos of Somalia and other African nations, where she was subjected to genital
mutilation and later forced into an unwanted marriage. While in transit to her
husband in Canada, she decided to seek asylum in the Netherlands, where she
marveled at the polite policemen and government bureaucrats. Ali is up-front
about having lied about her background in order to obtain her citizenship, which
led to further controversy in early 2006, when an immigration official sought to
deport her and triggered the collapse of the Dutch coalition government. Apart
from feelings of guilt over van Gogh's death, her voice is forceful and
unbowed—like Irshad Manji, she delivers a powerful feminist critique of Islam
informed by a genuine understanding of the religion.
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