Award-winning writer Abigail R. Esman worked with Dutch politician
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the project "Submission," a film
about the abuse of Muslim women which resulted in the brutal
murder of its producer, Theo van Gogh, by an Islamic militant
group in the Netherlands - and a note promising that Hirsi
Ali would be next. An expert on the rise of Islamic
jihad in the West and on domestic violence (she is herself
a survivor), Esman argues that terrorism begins in the home:
to defend ourselves, we in the West must force a change within
the Muslim family culture. From suicide bombings to ritual
beheadings and airplanes made into missiles, the toxic combination
of religious orthodoxy and family violence has made victims
of men, women and children as much in Muslim homes as in our
own.
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