Infidel, By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In the Islamic culture, women are seen as people that don’t have many rights, especially in the Islamic culture. Additionally, women that aren’t obedient or pure are seen as an infidel, not innocent, and are shunned by their family members. Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote her book Infidel as a way to tell her story. Ayaan was born in Somalia and there she had gone through favoritism; Ayaan’s grandmother had forced her and her sibling to face genital mutilation. Ayaan moved around her due to either the violence or to the convenience of her father. Abeh -Ayaan’s father- was in and out of their lives, but when he returned, he had arranged a marriage for Ayaan. She escapes her arranged marriage by fleeing to Holland, where she claims refugee status. Over
For instance, Ayaan is known around the world as a strong-willed individual. “She is known for her extensive work fighting for the rights of Islamic culture” (Ayaan Hirsi Ali Biography). Ayaan always pushed through and she never backed down from a fight. She knew what it’s like for someone in the Islamic culture and she doesn’t want anyone to feel unimportant. She doesn’t agree with the way people are treated in that culture so she pushes for a change. Similarly, while living in Dutch Ayaan created a video that fostered anger among many people and the director that helped Ayaan got killed as a sign of a warning to her. “ When I approached Theo to help me make Submission, I had three messages to get across. First, Men, and even women, may look up and speak to Allah: it is possible for believers to have a dialogue with God and look closely at Him. Secondly the rigid interpretation of the Quran in Islam today causes intolerable misery for women. The third message is the film’s final phrase: ‘I may no longer submit” (Ali 350). Ayaan created this video to educate those people who have ignorance to their outrageous choices. Ayaan has realized people had decided to be fine with the way they’re treated, and she wanted people to know it was ok if they stand up for themselves. Ayaan actions show that the Islamic Culture is always suppressing the way someone desires to feel or
Ayaan spoke up on the Europeans and the ignorance they pertain. “ They were ignoring the silent suffering of Muslim women and children in their own backyard” (Anthony). Refugee women continue to live as slaves to their husbands and not a single individual has noticed. In regards to that, Ayaan is calling attention to this idea of women and children constantly getting abused due to the interpretation of the Qur'an, so that it can create a change in this Islamic faith. Furthermore, Ayaan wants people to understand how the interpretation of the Qu’ran governs people’s persuasion about a fixed group of people generating abuse. In a similar way, Ayaan expresses how she wouldn’t be able to explore as her brother Mahad could. “Mahad could travel and have adventures. Nothing like that could ever happen to me because I was a girl” (Ali 94). Ayaan didn’t want to settle down and live her life as expected of her. Ayaan at one point began to question her beliefs because she began to understand that women don’t have the unlimited powers that men do. A women is always the problem when it comes down to men. The thoughts and words spoken by Ayaan has shown that Islamic culture hinders the choices an individual should be able to