Prey : immigration, Islam, and the erosion of women's rights / Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

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Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants--most of them young men--from Muslim-majority countries.

In Prey, the best-selling author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. In 2018 Germany, "offences against sexual self-determination" rose 36 percent from their 2014 rate; nearly two-fifths of the suspects were non-German. In Austria in 2017, asylum-seekers were suspects in 11 percent of all reported rapes and sexual harassment cases, despite making up less than 1 percent of the total population.

This violence isn't a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. It's a real problem that Europe--and the world--cannot continue to ignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world from institutionalized polygamy to the lack of legal and religious protections for women.

A refugee herself, Hirsi Ali is not against immigration. As a child in Somalia, she suffered female genital mutilation; as a young girl in Saudi Arabia, she was made to feel acutely aware of her own vulnerability. Immigration, she argues, requires integration and assimilation. She wants Europeans to reform their broken system--and for Americans to learn from European mistakes. If this doesn't happen, the calls to exclude new Muslim migrants from Western countries will only grow louder.

Deeply researched and featuring fresh and often shocking revelations, Prey uncovers a sexual assault and harassment crisis in Europe that is turning the clock on women's rights much further back than the #MeToo movement is advancing it.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. xi)
• Part I The Unsafe Streets
• Chapter 1 The Clock Turns Back (p. 3)
• Chapter 2 The Fifth Wave (p. 12)
• Chapter 3 Sexual Violence by Numbers (p. 25)
• Chapter 4 Taharrush Games (the Rape Game) Comes to Europe (p. 49)
• Chapter 5 How Women's Rights Are Being Eroded (p. 61)
• Chapter 6 Is the Law an Ass? (p. 79)
• Part II The European Establishment Abrogates Responsibility for Women's Safety
• Chapter 7 Actions Have Consequences (p. 91)
• Chapter 8 The Broken Windows of Liberal Justice (p. 108)
• Chapter 9 The Playbook of Denial (p. 123)
• Chapter 10 The Feminist Predicament (p. 133)
• Part III Clashing Civilizations, Revisited
• Chapter 11 The Modesty Doctrine (p. 141)
• Chapter 12 Culture Clash (p. 162)
• Chapter 13 Why Integration Has Not Happened (p. 178)
• Chapter 14 The Integration Industry and Its Failure (p. 205)
• Chapter 15 Grooming Gangs (p. 215)
• Part IV Solutions, Fake and Real
• Chapter 16 "For You Who Are Married to a Child" (p. 225)
• Chapter 17 The Populist Problem (p. 249)
• Chapter 18 A New Approach to Integration (p. 257)
• Conclusion: The Road to Gilead (p. 270)
• Acknowledgments (p. 277)
• Notes (p. 279)
• Index (p. 313)

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Library Journal Review

Courting controversy as she did with New York Times best sellers Infidel, Nomad, and Heretic, Ali, the well-known Somali-born Dutch American women's rights activist and free speech advocate, argues that Muslim immigrants must not be allowed to bring the harmful and regressive gender attitudes of Islamic extremism to the West. She points especially to an increase in sexual violence in European cities, which she blames on immigrants, urging Western feminists not to turn their heads. With a 75,000-copy first printing.

Publishers Weekly Review

Somali-born political activist Hirsi Ali (Heretic) argues in this contentious account that liberal immigration policies have led to an influx of young Muslim men bringing regressive cultural ideas and sexual violence to Europe. She blames German chancellor Angela Merkel's 2015 suspension of European Union asylum protocols for Syrian refugees, and the criminality of failed asylum seekers, for increases in sexual violence in Germany; accuses European politicians of hiding crime data out of fear of losing liberal support; and argues that local law enforcement is too soft and unprepared to deal with sexually violent gangs. Western feminists don't understand the regressiveness of traditional Muslim attitudes toward women, Hirsi Ali claims, or comprehend that basic public safety is a feminist issue. She also explains modesty culture and attacks Muslim immigrants for creating "parallel societies" and utilizing state welfare rather than productively integrating into European communities. Her proposed solutions include changing the asylum system to better assess immigrants' likelihood to assimilate, tightening border patrols, and European military involvement in Iraq and Syria. Though she paints Islam with a broad and overly negative brush and risks intensifying anti-Muslim xenophobia, Hirsi Ali provides valuable, gut-wrenching testimony from victims of sexual violence. This harrowing polemic is sure to spark controversy. (Feb.)

Booklist Review

Somali-born Dutch American activist, feminist, author, scholar, and former politician, Hirsi Ali is no stranger to controversy. Famous for her best-selling autobiography, Infidel (2007), and her manifesto on the reformation of Islam, Heretic (2015), Hirsi Ali now grapples with another subject that many other writers and commentators are hesitant to approach, namely the growing sexual harassment and sexual violence in Western Europe and the eradication of women's rights. Hirsi Ali examines how an increase in Islamic immigrant populations is transforming the culture and sexual politics of various European countries. While the #MeToo movement has seen big Hollywood names face justice for their crimes against women, and fourth-wave feminists advocate for better representation of women in politics, entertainment, and business, Hirsi Ali argues that the basic human freedoms won in first-wave feminism are under attack and nobody is talking about it. By presenting her thorough research methods and findings, which include many descriptions of violent sexual assault, Hirsi Ali offers strong evidence for her bound-to-be contentious claims in this in-depth and harrowing volume.Women in Focus: The 19th in 2020

Kirkus Book Review

An outspoken critic of Islamic extremism identifies a threat to women's safety. Women's rights activist Ali mounts a scathing critique of migrant Muslim men who perpetrate sexual violence against women throughout Europe. Between 2014 and 2017, when immigration increased dramatically, the author provides evidence that rape and sexual assault increased, as well, enacted by men coming from cultures in which women are often exploited. In Muslim-majority countries--like Ali's native Somalia--women are considered second-class citizens: denied education; confined to their homes for much of the time, allowed outside only when monitored by male family members; and treated as commodities by their fathers and husbands, subjected to "honor violence, female genital mutilation, and forced marriage." In Europe, men from such contexts repeat sexually aggressive behaviors, "not because they feel inferior or oppressed; it is because they think they can get away with it, just as they did back home." Fearful of being branded racist or xenophobic, European authorities--and even liberal feminists--tend to deny the problem, offering "poor advice and bogus solutions" that often entail blaming the victims. Although Ali stresses that she does not want to fuel populist arguments for closed borders, she vigorously argues for reforms that will mitigate the "causal connection" between migration and sex crimes. She proposes radical restrictions on immigration to allow entry only to those cognizant of "the culture, laws, and norms of the society they wish to join," willing to adapt to European liberal values; and to keep out those she calls "menaces" (unemployable, attracted to crime), religious zealots, and "coasters" who will live off welfare benefits and populate segregated ghettos. Migrants who refuse to adapt within a year or two should be deported. At the same time, Ali asserts, Europe must take responsibility to stabilize Muslim countries from which migrants seek to flee. An impassioned analysis sure to incite controversy. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.