Ayaan Hirsi Ali

People like Maajid Nawaz, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Irshad Manji, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali are becoming revolutionary leaders in the same way that Locke and Roger Williams were to Christianity. While it may be dangerous to them, they are trying to reform Islam from the inside. They are trying to break the tight interlock that Islam…

like the wage gap, sexual violence, and equal opportunity would always be at the forefront of my personal agenda. Most of all, she instilled in me the danger of being a woman in a society where women are constantly sexualized. In The Caged Virgin, Ali writes that “sexual morality is aimed exclusively at women, who are always blamed for any lapse” (13). When women are sexually harassed, assaulted, or abused, the people around them should be disgusted and fight for the justice of the woman…