I have never thought of Hirsi Ali as a feminist. More like a young woman smart enough to recognize her own persecution in Somalia and to write about her own subjugation (including genital mutilation) under Islam.
A gentle soul, friend of the guy slaughtered while riding his bicycle on the street in Amsterdam Theo Van Gogh who had made the short and truthful film Submission that so insulted his vile Islamist assassin and his fellow travelers.
That someone lauded by the NYTimes has written a book attempting to destroy Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s reputation is only another measure of Ali’s effectiveness.





