![]() ![]() Confining her to a lifetime of house arrest and taking away her freedoms results in being caged. AYAAN HIRSI ALI (Author, The Caged Virgin): When I say the caged virgin, I mean the way women are treated, or the woman is treated in Islam. We spoke earlier about her book and what led to it.Īyaan Hirsi Ali, the title of your book is The Caged Virgin. A letter attached to his body threatened her life. Her Dutch co-writer and director, Theo Van Gogh, was later stabbed to death by a Muslim radical. Well, that all changed in 2004.ĬHADWICK: That year her short film about the mistreatment of women in Islam was shown on Dutch television. Living in the West, Hirsi Ali felt free to publicly criticize Islam. She's a native of Somalia who immigrated to the Netherlands about a dozen years ago. She calls it an emancipation proclamation for women in Islam.īRAND: She is a controversial figure among many of her fellow Muslims. It's The Caged Virgin, a collection of essays from Dutch Parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali. There's a new English translation of a book that's caused a lot of stir in Europe. ![]()
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