Zayneb

  About the Author

  AYAAN HIRSI ALI was born in Somalia, was raised Muslim, and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia. In 1992, Hirsi Ali came to the Netherlands as a refugee, escaping a forced marriage to a distant cousin she had never met. She learned Dutch and worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women. After earning her college degree in political science, she worked for the Labor Party. She denounced Islam after the September 11 terrorist attacks and now works as a Dutch parliamentarian, fighting for the rights of Muslim women in Europe, the enlightenment of Islam, and security in the West.

  Table of Contents

  Preface: Breaking Through the Islamic Curtain

  1 Stand Up for Your Rights! Women in Islam

  2 Why Can’t We Take a Critical Look at Ourselves?

  3 The Virgins’ Cage

  4 Let Us Have a Voltaire

  5 What Went Wrong? A Modern Clash of Cultures

  6 A Brief Personal History of My Emancipation

  7 Being a Politician Is Not My Ideal

  8 Bin Laden’s Nightmare Interview with Irshad Manji

  9 Freedom Requires Constant Vigilance

  10 Four Women’s Lives

  11 How to Deal with Domestic Violence More Effectively

  12 Genital Mutilation Must Not Be Tolerated

  13 Ten Tips for Muslim Women Who Want to Leave

  14 Submission: Part I

  15 The Need for Self-Reflection Within Islam

  16 Portrait of a Heroine as a Young Woman

  17 A Call for Clear Thinking Notes

  Index

 

 

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin

 

 

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