Discussing foreign policy with her is like playing a game of Risk. with a powerful message for moderates, liberals and multiculturalists: not all cultures are equal Islam is a threat to liberalism and liberalism is yet to offer an adequate response and Islam is too defined by “seventh century … jihadi bullshit” to be appeased or ignored. Ali took a job with the conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., the American Enterprise Institute. As a member of Parliament she argued that multiculturalists were too easy on Islam and that Holland should immediately take steps to improve treatment of Muslim women, to protect them from barbaric and chauvinistic practices like forced marriage and circumcision and to ban Muslim schools where integration was impossible and Western values reviled. It was the forced engagement that was the moral last straw, the offense that sent her into flight from her betrothed and her family and landed her in Holland, where her ascent to the halls of government was startlingly rapid. Ali traces her journey from Somalia to Holland, from a life of exile (her father was a Somali warlord so the family was frequently on the lam) in Kenya and Saudi Araba a life of suffering and subordination (she wore the hijab as a member of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, was forced to undergo the painful practice of female circumcision, and was engaged to someone she didn’t love) and a life of awakening. Ali spent several months virtually kidnapped by her security team. Van Gogh’s last words were, “Can’t we talk about this?” After the incident, Ms.
Ali (and the United States to boot) with a fate like van Gogh’s. As a result of the film, its director, Theo van Gogh was killed in cold blood on the streets of Amsterdam, a note jabbed into his chest threatening Ms. In the film, images of bare women’s limbs are scrawled with verses of the Qu’ran which-Ali has said-denigrate and subordinate women. Islam’s toughest critic on her new book, the Axis of Evil, and the neoconservatives’ moral high ground.īorn in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1969, Ayaan Hirsi Ali gained international recognition as the controversial member of Dutch Parliament who wrote a short film attacking Islam, called Submission Part 1.
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