Sarkozy disregards his critics and sometimes seems to thrive on criticism.
In modern times, when American women serve alongside men in combat and when most Western women enjoy "emancipation," can courage still be considered the domain of one sex?
Imagine a world where all females, in the East and the West, were treated as equals.
Increased U.S. presence and the collateral damage it would cause in Afghanistan would end Obama's honeymoon.
Free economic activity among individuals, corporations, and nations boosts such desirable qualities as trust, honesty, and hard work.
World Affairs
October 1, 2008
While the presidential candidates' choice of words and their party affiliations distinguish them, their foreign policies do not.
The West has cultivated an ethos of individualism, reason, tolerance, and an elaborate system in which every actor seeks to resolve conflict through words.
Holland's Neelie Kroes has been a very determined woman fightingto improve the position of Muslim women and other women from the unfree world.
The reactions to the movieby Geert Wildersare causing problems for the Dutch cabinet.
The Suicide of Reason exposes radical Islam's threat to the Enlightenment.
AEI Online
January 4, 2008
Recent examples of harsh "Islamic justice" call for the responses of the ballyhooed Muslim moderates. Where are they?
Recent examples of harsh "Islamic justice" call for the responses of the ballyhooed Muslim moderates. Where are they?
On holy war, apostasy, and the rights of women in Islam.
A reflection on an immigrant's African background and her joy to now live in the West.
The burning of effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and Salman Rushdie by Muslim students in Pakistan should remindthe Westof the importance of defendingits cultural symbols.
Journalists have a responsibility to illuminate the vast differences between Islam and the West.
How reformists can stop the Islamists who have chipped away at Turkey's secularism.
Islam is a deformed religion, and U.S. political loyalties should not block awareness of this fact.
Congress of Racial Equality
January 15, 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and its relevance for women in Islamic societies.
Western and Christian charities in the third world should take it upon themselves to inform Muslims and non-Muslims alike about the Holocaust.
Wearing a veil is not a personal decision for a Muslim woman. The fundamentals of modern civil society are at stake.
Congress of the Danish Liberal Party
November 19, 2006
The debate on the integration of non-Western minorities into Western societies is essentially a debate on conflicting values and views.
How will Europe react to its growing Muslim population?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives under a death threat for daring to challenge the Islamic patriarchy and says the West must support women like her if it wants to spread freedom.
What the failings of European multiculturalism? What arethe dangers of Islamic fundamentalism? And what steps are needed to save the EU from economic disaster?
A final meeting with Oriana Fallaci leaves great life lessons about politics and the struggle for truth.
The liberation of Europe's Muslim women is the best way to encourage assimilation into Western society, but the opportunity is being wasted.
What is happening to women and girls in many places across the globe is genocide.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, argues that if Europe doesn't stand up to extremists, it will spread a culture of self-censorship.
Two determining issues in the evolution of a European Union identity - immigration and Turkish accession - can be traced back to negative perceptions of Islam.
In every society where family affairs are regulated according to instructions derived from the Shariah or Islamic law, women are disadvantaged.
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