Document 22.4
Abandoning Islam
This document was about a muslim women named Ayaan Hirsi Ali who spent much of her life moving around to different countries. She was born to a strict muslim faith in Somalia. She and her family moved all around to places such as Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. She then fled an arranged marriage and went to the Netherlands. She made her way up in politics and became elected into the dutch parliament. In 2006, she moved to the United States and has been working at the American Enterprise Institute. She told about her experiences in an excerpt called From Islam to America.
This excerpt includes Hirsi Ali's reasons for leaving Islam and a letter that she wrote for her dead grandmothers. She talks about her views on Islam now that she has studied it and been involved with it. She disagrees with the philosophy of the gender inequality. I also disagree with the view of women in Islam. It is hard to see that still stands in today's society even with all of the positive changes we have made as a nation/world. In the letter to her grandmother, she mentions she wishes she could've been there to persuade her to change her views on religion and accept western culture and freedom. She mentions the "secret of the Dutchman's success" and I agree with this. You must adapt to your surroundings, without fully losing who you are, and invent. Progress. She closes the letter by saying "I no longer believe in old ways.."
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