This is a hell of a story. Born and raised in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s family

ritually mutilated her genitals when she was five years old, as is the custom

among some Muslims. When she was 22, her father forced her to marry a cousin

she had never seen; she escaped, and gained political asylum in the

Netherlands. She began working for an interpreter for immigration officials

and social workers, and discovered hidden “suffering on a terrible scale”

among Muslim women living in Europe’s most liberal and tolerant country:

incest, beatings, abortions, forced marriages, etc. When she began speaking

out, condemning the Dutch government for its multiculturalist policies that

allowed Muslim women to be abused without criticism, and called Islam

“backwards,” the death threats from other Muslims started coming. Ali has

been forced to flee the country for her life. What a disgrace to the

Netherlands, unable (or more to the point, unwilling) to protect this

brave woman from the barbarian adherents of the Religion of Peace. Makes you

wonder how much of this Islamic anti-woman cruelty is going on right here in

America, doesn’t it?