Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights

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Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europes cities No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrantsmost of them young menfrom 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 isnt a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. Its a real problem that Europeand the worldcannot 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 systemand for Americans to learn from European mistakes. If this doesnt 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 womens rights much further back than the #MeToo movement is advancing it.

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Author, activist, academic, original thinker, former MP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a polarizing figure who enrages conservatives and liberals alike for her fearless take on political Islam. She is the author of three renowned books, The Caged Virgin, Infidel, her global best-selling autobiography, and Nomad, the sequel. She is in high demand as a speaker - when she toured here in 2010 she appeared on wall to wall media. She is a natural for writers festival and for tours and as her topic continues to dominate the news she will continue to be in demand for years to come. She lives in the US with her husband, Niall Ferguson, and their son.