New Releases by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

»›Beute‹ warnt uns davor, unsere größte Errungenschaft aufs Spiel zu setzen: die Herrschaft des Rechts.« Henry A. Kissinger Nicht alle muslimischen Männer verachten Frauen, manche allerdings schon. Ayaan Hirsi Ali benennt in ihrem Buch eine unbequeme Wahrheit, der wir ins Auge blicken müssen: Viele muslimische Männer haben ein radikal anderes Frauenbild, als es bei uns üblich ist. Mit der verstärkten Zuwanderung aus muslimischen Ländern nimmt die Gewalt gegen Frauen nachweislich zu, und Frauen werden dadurch in ihrer Bewegungsfreiheit immer stärker eingeschränkt. Nicht nur muslimische Frauen, sondern alle Frauen in westlichen Demokratien. Falsche Toleranz, so Hirsi Ali, hilft hier nicht weiter. Denn wir laufen Gefahr, unsere hart erkämpften Freiheitsrechte zu verlieren. Nur indem wir die Probleme klar benennen und die Bedrohung emanzipatorischer Errungenschaften durch Einwanderer aus muslimisch-arabischen Kulturkreisen anerkennen, nehmen wir Populisten den Wind aus den Segeln. Und nur dann kann Integration erfolgreich sein.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali stelt dat de instroom van mensen uit een islamitische samenleving een gevaar vormt voor de rechten van vrouwen, niet alleen van migranten maar ook van vrouwen uit de westerse cultuur. ‘Prooi’ is het nieuwste boek van Ayaan Hirsi Ali. De these van dit even scherpzinnige als controversiële boek is simpel. Hirsi Ali stelt dat de recente instroom van mensen uit een islamitische samenleving een gevaar vormt voor de rechten van vrouwen, niet alleen van migranten maar ook van vrouwen uit de westerse cultuur. Daarover durft niemand openlijk te praten uit angst voor racist of extreem-rechts te worden uitgemaakt. Hirsi Ali wil het taboe doorbreken vanuit de gedachte dat als we er niet openhartig over praten, we de rechtspopulisten die het er wél over hebben en vaak schromelijk overdrijven en haat tegen migranten voeden, juist in de kaart spelen. Het betoog bestaat uit een mix van persoonlijke verhalen en getuigenissen, harde feiten, cijfers en kritiek op het integratiebeleid van Europese landen. Hirsi Ali is zich bewust van het gevoelige karakter van de dingen die ze zegt. Ze wil laten zien dat ontkenning van het probleem geen oplossing is. ‘Prooi’ biedt een aantal bijzonder overtuigende oplossingen voor de beschreven problemen – Hirsi Ali eindigt dus met een positieve noot: een oproep tot verandering.

Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants—most of them young men—from Muslim-majority countries. In Prey, the best-selling author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. In 2018 Germany, "offences against sexual self-determination" rose 36 percent from their 2014 rate; nearly two-fifths of the suspects were non-German. In Austria in 2017, asylum-seekers were suspects in 11 percent of all reported rapes and sexual harassment cases, despite making up less than 1 percent of the total population. This violence isn't a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. It's a real problem that Europe—and the world—cannot continue to ignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world from institutionalized polygamy to the lack of legal and religious protections for women. A refugee herself, Hirsi Ali is not against immigration. As a child in Somalia, she suffered female genital mutilation; as a young girl in Saudi Arabia, she was made to feel acutely aware of her own vulnerability. Immigration, she argues, requires integration and assimilation. She wants Europeans to reform their broken system—and for Americans to learn from European mistakes. If this doesn't happen, the calls to exclude new Muslim migrants from Western countries will only grow louder. Deeply researched and featuring fresh and often shocking revelations, Prey uncovers a sexual assault and harassment crisis in Europe that is turning the clock on women's rights much further back than the #MeToo movement is advancing it.

Mit Beiträgen von Florian Markl, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Miriam Mettler, Markus Bitterolf, Thorsten Fuchshuber, Gerhard Scheit, H. v. Z., Manfred Dahlmann, Gerhard Scheit, Robert Hullot-Kentor, Niklas Lämmel, Christian Thalmaier, Kay Schweigmann-Greve, Christoph Hesse, Renate Göllner, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky und Moses Hess.

'È mia intenzione mettere a disagio molte persone: non solo i musulmani, ma anche i difensori occidentali dell'Islam. Voglio sfidare secoli di ortodossia religiosa con idee e argomenti che, sono certa, saranno definiti eretici: l'Islam non è una religione di pace." Impegnata da sempre nella difesa dei diritti umani, con opinioni radicali che le sono già valse una fatwa, Ayaan Hirsi Ali è una delle voci più potenti e controverse del mondo islamico. In questo libro tesse insieme analogie storiche ed esempi illuminanti della società musulmana contemporanea per denunciare la violenza che pervade le dottrine e i testi sacri islamici. Perché, se davvero vogliamo fermare la violenza politica perpetrata in nome della fede, è indispensabile una riforma radicale. Solo così, e con una presa di posizione chiara dell'Occidente, sarà possibile costruire un Islam libero dalla sharia, dal terrorismo e dall'oppressione delle donne: "Non vedo altra via, per noi, verso il futuro: altra via, almeno, che non sia disseminata di cadaveri".

Das wichtigste Buch zur Islam-Debatte: Ayaan Hirsi Ali und ihr Plädoyer für eine Reformation des Islam Ihre eigene Biographie und intime Kenntnis der islamischen Gesellschaften und Kultur sowie ihre Forschungen machen Ayaan Hirsi Ali zu einer der wichtigsten Stimmen in der Debatte über den Islam. Ihr neues, von Optimismus getragenes Buch, an dem sie seit Jahren arbeitet, kommt im richtigen Moment: Es nimmt die Terroranschläge in Paris zum Ausgangspunkt, bietet fundierte Einordnung und Hintergründe, vor allem aber bezieht Hirsi Ali klar Stellung: gegen einen erstarrten Islam und dessen Tolerierung durch den Westen. Und für eine Reformation ihrer Religion durch die Muslime, die sie bereits auf dem Weg sieht.

Met de Arabische Lente leek de islamitische wereld aan een veelbelovende omslag bezig. Maar de recente aanslag op Charlie Hebdo, de opkomst van de barbaarse IS en de oorlogen in Syrië en Irak tonen aan dat de relatie tussen de islamitische samenlevingen en het Westen weinig is veranderd, en een gevaar vormt voor de wereldvrede. Ayaan Hirsi Ali pleit voor een reformatie van de islam – een gematigde islam met gelovigen die kunnen leven met twijfel over de Koran en kritiek op de Profeet verdragen. Ayaan Hirsi Ali daagt de jihadisten onverschrokken uit en beschrijft wat islamieten moeten doen om hun religie van de 7e naar de 21ste eeuw te ‘tillen’. Het Westen moet ophouden concessies te doen, want Islam is geen vredelievende religie’, zegt ze. Niet degenen die tegen de vrijheid van meningsuiting zijn, maar hervormingsgezinde Moslims verdienen onze steun. Ketters is geen oproep tot strijd maar een pleidooi voor vreedzame verandering en mondiale tolerantie.

Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities. Today, she argues, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that some of its key teachings—not least the duty to wage holy war—are incompatible with the values of a free society. For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune to change. But Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a Muslim Reformation—a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity—is now at hand, and may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a political failure. But its challenge to traditional authority revealed a new readiness—not least by Muslim women—to think freely and to speak out. Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims have to make to bring their religion out of the seventh century and into the twenty-first. And she calls on the Western world to end its appeasement of the Islamists. "Islam is not a religion of peace," she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need our backing, not the opponents of free speech. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this book offers an answer to what is fast becoming the world's number one problem.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali atraiu atenção mundial com o livro de memórias Infiel, que ficou 31 semanas na lista de best-sellers do New York Times e conta sua infância e adolescência na Somália, na Arábia Saudita, na Etiópia e no Quênia sob o rigor do islamismo, até chegar à Holanda, onde se tornou uma das principais críticas do islã e defensora dos direitos das mulheres. Agora, em Nômade, ela narra sua mudança para os Estados Unidos em busca de uma nova vida, longe dos islamitas europeus que a ameaçaram de morte. Nesta história da transição da vida tribal à cidadania plena em uma democracia ocidental, Ayaan relata as reviravoltas em sua vida após o rompimento com a família, que a renegou quando ela renunciou ao islã depois do Onze de Setembro. De forma comovente, a escritora somali relata sua reconciliação com a mãe e os primos, e com o pai no leito de morte. Nômade é o retrato de uma família dilacerada pelo choque de civilizações, mas também é um relato sensível, otimista e muitas vezes divertido da descoberta dos Estados Unidos por uma mulher que teme que o país esteja repetindo o erro europeu de subestimar o islã radical. Ayaan convoca instituições ocidentais - como o movimento feminista e as igrejas cristãs - a pôr em prática ações para ajudar outros imigrantes muçulmanos a superar os obstáculos que ela vivenciou em sua assimilação à sociedade ocidental e a resistir à sedução do fundamentalismo. Uma celebração da liberdade de expressão e dos valores democráticos, o mais recente livro de Ayaan Hirsi Ali representa o amadurecimento intelectual da escritora. É também uma importante contribuição para a história das ideias e, acima de tudo, um chamado à ação.

Con Nómada Hirsi Ali relata su llegada a Estados Unidos para construir una nueva vida lejos de las amenazas de muerte, de disputas políticas y de su propio conflicto interior. Es la historia de su transición de una mentalidad tribal que impide a las mujeres pensar y actuar por sí mismas, hasta convertirse en una ciudadana libre en el seno de una sociedad abierta. En sus páginas, la autora narra los numerosos giros que dio su vida tras romper con su familia, sus dificultades para adaptarse a su sociedad de acogida, la reconciliación con su padre después de que éste la repudiara por haber abandonado los preceptos del islam, la difícil relación con su madre y con sus primos en Somalia y en Europa... Pero Nómada es también un mensaje de alerta a Occidente ante el error de subestimar el islam radical, un llamamiento a instituciones clave —las universidades, el movimiento feminista, las iglesias cristianas— para que ayuden a otros inmigrantes musulmanes a superar los desafíos que ella misma experimentó y a resistir el fatal atractivo que, tanto desde el exterior como en el seno de nuestras sociedades, ejercen el fundamentalismo y el terrorismo. Nómada es, en suma, una celebración de la libertad de expresión y de la democracia, una importante contribución a la historia de las ideas y, por encima de todo, un entusiasta llamamiento a la acción. «Este libro no versa únicamente sobre mi errática vida por Occidente, sino también sobre las vidas de muchos otros inmigrantes, sobre las dificultades filosófica y materialmente reales de personas, sobre todo mujeres, que viven en una cultura musulmana tradicional y profundamente cerrada, situada a su vez en el seno de una cultura abierta. Analiza la colisión entre los ideales islámicos y los ideales occidentales. Aborda el choque de civilizaciones que yo y millones de personas hemos vivido y seguimos viviendo»

Nomadis a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds. With vivid anecdotes and observations of people, cultures, and political debacles, this narrative weaves together Hirsi Ali's personal story -- including her reconciliation with her devout father who had disowned her when she denounced Islam -- with the stories of other women and men, high-profile and not, whom she encounters. With a deep understanding and intimate perspective of the situation of Muslim women and moderates in the world today and her singular, unwavering intellectual courage, Hirsi Ali offers her always notable, often controversial analysis of Islam vis a vis the superiority of Western democratic values.

Een moedige stem uit twee werelden die heilige huisjes sloopt. Controversieel denker die taboes tart en debat ontketent. Een moslimvrouw heeft meer status naarmate ze meer zonen heeft. Als mijn oma werd gevraagd hoeveel kinderen ze had, zei ze: `Eén. Ze had negen dochters en één zoon. Dat zei ze ook over ons gezin. Dat we maar één kind hadden. `En wij dan? vroegen mijn zus en ik. `Jullie gaan voor ons zoontjes krijgen, antwoordde ze. Ik werd er wanhopig van. Wat moest ik met mijn leven op aarde? Zoontjes baren! Een zoontjesfabriek worden. Ik was toen negen jaar. Om hun toekomstige functie als zoontjesfabriek zo goed mogelijk te vervullen, wordt meisjes van jongs af aan geleerd zich te schikken. Naar God, vader, broer, familie, clan. Hoe beter een vrouw daarin slaagt, hoe deugdzamer ze gevonden wordt. Je moet altijd geduldig zijn, ook wanneer je man de meest vreselijke dingen van je verlangt. En daarvoor word je beloond in het hiernamaals. Maar die beloning stelt weinig voor. Voor vrouwen zijn er in het paradijs dadels en druiven. Verder niets. » De zoontjesfabriek bevat alle artikelen die Ayaan Hirsi Ali tot nu toe heeft gepubliceerd, voorafgegaan door een interview van Colet van de Ven'

Raised a Muslim but increasingly outraged by her religion's hostility towards women, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has now become one of today's most talked-about, admired and controversial political figures because of her desire to free women from an oppressive Muslim culture. Her bestselling collection of essays, THE CAGED VIRGIN, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of her most passionate and compelling writing on a wide range of issues concerning Islam. Drawing on her own first-hand experience and cultural background, she assesses the role of women in Islam both in practice and in theory; the rights of the individual; fanaticism; and Western policies towards immigrant communities. Provocative and compelling in equal measure, THE CAGED VIRGIN is an important addition to the ongoing debate about the 'clash of civilizations' and marks the debut of a writer and activist destined to be one of the key international figures of the early twenty-first century.

In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission. Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (f. 1969) fortæller om sin opvækst som muslim i Somalia, om flugten til Holland, hvor hun vendte sin religion ryggen, om kampen mod undertrykkelse af kvinder og børn i islams navn og om sin tid som medlem af det hollandske parlament for det liberale parti, VVD.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (f. 1969) fortæller om sin omflakkende opvækst som muslim i Somalia, Saudi Arabien, Ethiopien og Kenya, om flugten til Holland, hvor hun vendte sin religion ryggen, om kampen mod undertrykkelse af kvinder og børn i islams navn og om sin tid som medlem af det hollandske parlament for det liberale parti, VVD

In De maagdenkooi zijn essays en lezingen bijeengebracht die Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2003 hield, aangevuld met haar ervaringen als tolk voor Somalische vrouwen in Blijf-van-mijn-lijfhuizen en asielcentra. Met haar onverschrokken optreden schaart Ayaan Hirsi Ali zich in internationale gelederen van vrouwen, die allen de strijd aanbinden met de onderdrukking van vrouwen door de islam.

Scenario van de door Theo van Gogh (1957-2004) geregisseerde speelfilm 'Submission', aangevuld met enkele toelichtende teksten.