Burned Alive (Paperback)

It is so easy for us to take our lives for granted, but books like this are a real eye-opener to the plight of abused women in other parts of the world. I only wish there were more books like this, from women brave enough to come forward and tell their stories.

Burned Alive is about a Muslim girl and her life, very sad, but makes you realise that how they live, what their life is like a little bit about their customs and the sadness of their existence of a female in their world.... An attempted honour killing that goes wrong, she survives being burned alive and talks freely about her life.... I know this is a modern world that we live in but I feel that some westerners are blinded by other cultures as we don't understand them or why they believe what they belive, it's all down to up bringing and teaching, this book defintely opens up your eyes to another world, one you wouldn't think still exists but it still happens all over the world.... How free we are from the ignorance of what goes on, the slavery that's still out there or other people, that think their lives are normal when in fact it's only normal in their world not ours.... Souad definitely thought that what she was told was true, it wasn't until she escaped that, that she then found out what our lives are like and that children can play freely, go to school even if they're females, wear shoes, simple things we take for granted....

As we know no different like Souad and their culture knows no different to whats outside their own village or world....
It's what inbreeded into you and what you see and teach your children, what they learn from their parents and culture, and the viscious circle carries on.... This book shows you all this....

I know there's modern families out there that are changing things for the next generation, just like Souad is trying to do by writing this book and notifying us what's it's like in her culture, how woman are treated, but it'll take time for a lot of cultures before it changes, if ever it does....

Souad explains that her culture tells her what the outside world is like when infact they're brain washed into believing what their family and village tells them.... She finds out in her new life that it's not so and that woman are free to where shoes, walk and talk to men without being branded a whore, or being beaten for not doing something correctly or the way it should be done.... Our ignorance of other cultures and their of ours, their naivity of things outside of their own existence.... It's a mans world in some places and woman are at the bottom of the list, they're door mats and worth nothing, a burden to their families, slaves to their parents or husbands.... It's unimaginable to me how this can still go on and the braveness and courage of this one individual to speak out about a tramatic event in her life, when at times she wanted to die, she wanted to give up.... About her savour Jacqueline and the SURGIR organisation that saved her, about her reunion with her son, an emotional story that will truly touch your heart strings and make you realise how lucky we are not to live that way.... Everyone has their own beliefs but the cruelty of what Souad endures and others alike that are left behind and will continue to endure this type of treatment....

Worth every penny....