Hirsi Ali threatens Muslim moderates like Mansur because they don’t want to acknowledge how bred in the bone misogyny is in their religion. It remains so today with the brutal discrimination against women in Sharia. Of course, this exists too in Judaeo-Christian tradition, but has been modified to a great degree. This is not a mild problem. This is brutal, actualy pathological, discrimination against half of humanity. Ali’s retreat into atheism is a natural response. Who needs religion when it’s like that? On a larger point, perhaps “organized” religion itself is finally anti-spiritual. It is only a power play. Islam would tend to prove that, as do the histories of other religions. Do we need them to find God – or do they hide him/her/it from us?
