Gina Khan will be reporting regularly on the busy life of an anti-jihadist activist in Birmingham.
June 17 2009
Extracts from Reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Birmingham at Democratiya.
Ayaan’s books break the silence about Muslim women’s plight. I was a victim of domestic violence. I thought I had married a modern thinking British Muslim. My brother had warned me not to marry into a particular group of Muslims, mostly from Mirpur or Kashmir, saying to me ‘They will never change. They are controlled by their extended families. They will always be backward in their mindset.’ At the time, I dismissed his advice as discrimination, but it turned out to be true in many ways. Firstly, my husband hid … Read the rest