Hello, hello, welcome to Relatable. Today I am having a wonderful fascinating interview

with a wonderful, fascinating person. And that is Ayanna Hershey-Ali. You've probably

seen her before. She's been on Fox News. She has been an author and in the public arena

for a very long time. She is an author, a refugee and she has a former representative

from the Netherlands as well. She is an immigrant from Somalia, but she moved to various countries

in Europe and lived in the Netherlands. And she actually fled to the Netherlands to try

to escape a forced marriage in 1992. She ended up earning her masters there. She got her

citizenship. She got her masters in political science. She worked as a translator for Somali

immigrants. And from 2003 to 2006, she served as an elected member of the Dutch parliament.

In 2005, she was named one of Time Magazine to 100 most influential people. Today, she

lives in the United States. She's a Hoover Institution research fellow. She also has a foundation

that raises awareness about female genital mutilation that's happening in Islamic communities,

not just abroad, but also here in the United States. And so today, we're going to talk

about her new book, How Immigration in particular in Europe is leading to a rise of assault on

women. These immigrants are mostly from Muslim majority countries, just like Anne Hershey-Ali.

And so this is a conversation that honestly a lot of people don't want to have because

in the West, we are afraid that criticizing other cultures or criticizing other countries

is seen as bigoted or racist or wrong. But as we will talk about today, that actually

blinds us to reality. And it makes us unable to see right from wrong, good from bad. And

it prevents us from being able to protect victims of violence. And so I'm really excited

for you to hear the insight that she has to give today. Without further ado, here is

Anne Hershey-Ali.

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