Hirsi Ali’s narrative is also missing any effort to place violence against Muslim women in a broader global context or to analyze the many possible factors that generate and perpetuate violence against women throughout the world, not just in Muslim countries. When reading or listening to Hirsi Ali, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that one in four women in the United States have experienced violent abuse from an intimate partner, and one in five have experienced an attempted rape. In Europe, one-third of all women report having experienced a sexual or physical assault. Such statistics are shocking, but they are also indicative of a global problem of violence against women that transcends religious and geographical boundaries.

XREF: The statistics cited (1 in 4 US women, 1 in 3 European women) connect to broader gender-based violence research and critiques of singular religious framings. QUESTION: What other global or systemic factors does the author suggest generate violence against women, and how might they apply across contexts?

Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Intro…, loc. 487