Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Prey: A Panel Discussion on Europe, Islam, and Women’s Rights

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book on the explosion of sexual violence and harassment in Europe, was published in early 2021. Since then, the book has sparked a worldwide discussion online and offline about the immigration of huge numbers of mostly young Muslim men to European cities and its effect on the women who live there. To discuss this phenomenon, Peter Robinson is joined by Prey author and Hoover Institution research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Valerie Hudson, a professor of political science at the Bush School at Texas A&M University and an expert on women’s rights and demographics; and Christopher Caldwell, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and author.

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0:00.0	In recent years, Europe has experienced an enormous influx of immigrants, most have been
0:06.6	Muslim and male.
0:09.4	Ion Hirsiali describes the effect on European women in her new book and the title conveys
0:15.2	her argument, Prey.
0:17.8	To discuss the book, Ion Hirsiali and two of her friends, the journalist Christopher
0:21.9	Caldwell and the scholar Valerie Hudson.
0:25.8	Uncommon knowledge now.
0:38.5	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.
0:39.8	I'm Peter Robinson.
0:41.3	Ion Hirsiali grew up in Africa in the Middle East.
0:44.8	She sought asylum in the Netherlands, becoming a citizen and serving in the Dutch parliament
0:49.0	before moving to the United States.
0:51.4	Ion Hirsiali became an American citizen in 2013.
0:55.6	She is now a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
1:00.0	Her new book, once again Prey, Immigration, Islam and the erosion of women's rights.
1:07.3	A fellow at the Claremont Institute, Christopher Caldwell publishes in a number of publications,
1:11.7	including The New York Times.
1:13.2	His books include Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, published in 2009, and The Age
1:19.0	of Entitlement, America since the 60s published just last year.
1:24.5	A professor of political science at the Bush School at Texas A&M, Valerie Hudson writes
1:29.4	often on foreign policy and women's rights.
1:32.4	Her best-known work may be the 2004 book Bear Branches, in which she examined the implications
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