The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (24 page)
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Authors: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Tags: #Political Science, #Civil Rights, #Social Science, #Women's Studies
Spinoza, Baruch
Spouse abuse.
See
Domestic violence
State, U.S. Department of
Stockholm syndrome
Storhaus, Hege
Submission: Part I
(film)
Sudan
Sunna
Sunni Muslims
Supernatural
Surinam
Syria
Tajikistan
Taliban
Talmud
Tanzania
Terrorism
Tonca, Ayhan
Tribal mentality
Trouble with Islam, The
(Manji)
Trust for Islam and Citizenship
Tunisia
Turkey
Unemployment
Union of Moroccan Muslim Organizations in the Netherlands (UMMON)
United Nations
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Development Program,
Human Rights Commission (UNHRC)
Universal human rights
University of Notre Dame
Vagina
Van Boxtel, Roger
Van der Zwan, Arie
Van Gogh, Theo
Veils
Verdonk, Rita
Virginity, doctrine of
Voltaire
Wahhabism
(fanaticism)
Welfare state
Western philosophers
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
(Lewis)
Why I Am Not a Muslim
(Ibn Warraq)
Women’s shelters
World Health Organization
World War II
Yemen
Yesilgöz, Yucel
Yugoslavia
Zayneb
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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.