Nothing would change Islam more than freeing its women from pre—medieval oppression. Hirsi Ali is famous as a woman brought up in Islamic Somalia who fled to Holland and came of age there. Now the Dutch have turned tail and expelled her (then changed their minds), and she has been hired by the American Enterprise Institute. What a great gift to our country and the West.  In her first essay for AEI Hirsi Ali makes a fundamental point: European policy—makers have not yet understood the huge potential of liberating Muslim women. They are squandering the single best opportunity they have to make Muslim integration a success within one generation. There are obvious moral arguments for liberation. Ms. Ali also presents the pragmatic reasons: Fundamental human rights for women is the single most important step toward Muslim assimilation. Women are always the power players inside the family, no matter what their public role appears to be: mother, wife, daughter —...(Read Full Post)