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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a beautiful woman. In person, she's quite literally radiant. I find this remarkable, given how many people want to kill her.
Although she is Muslim by birth (she hails from Somalia via Saudi Arabia and Kenya), it's the Islamofascists who consider her, as the title of her memoir puts it, an infidel. It's they who want to crush her.
She has seen the world at its worst: friends murdered, her birthplace sundered by civil war, brutal ethnic hatreds, forced marriages (she escaped from one herself), and...exile. First she fled to the Netherlands; now she lives in the United States, where she is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, thinking and writing—under vigilant security because of threats against her life—about Islam, women and the West. As she writes:
"Many [Muslim women] are coerced into shrouding their bodies. The veil is the visible symptom of their more comprehensive subjection. They are required to be obedient, to ask permission of their male guardians when they leave the house, often with a chaperone. These victims of force, whether they live in England or in Saudi Arabia, almost always have very limited education. They are married young, through arranged or forced marriages, and are groomed for docility. They do not appear in unemployment statistics or any statistics at all. As ordained by their faith, they are invisible."
But Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not invisible. In Infidel she tells the story of her life, from her youth in rural Africa to her recent designation by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She will not be silent; she simply continues to radiate intelligence and courage.
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