Immigration, she argues, requires integration and assimilation.

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. A refugee herself, Hirsi Ali is not against immigration. 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. It’s a real problem that Europe-and the world-cannot continue to ignore. This violence isn’t a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. 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. In 2018 Germany, “offences against sexual self-determination” rose 36 percent from their 2014 rate nearly two-fifths of the suspects were non-German. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. 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.

Prey by Ayaan Hirsi Ali