The Left Crowns the Wrong Queen
By Robert Golomb
This story originally appeared in NewsLI.com
A frightening recent report: an estimated 200 million Muslim girls and women alive today have been forced to go through female genital mutilation; also frightening: in America and Europe most of the leaders of the feminist movement have remained all but silent amidst this horror. There have been, thankfully though, a few exceptions. The most notable of them has been Ayaan Hirsi Ali who has become the leading voice in the fight against this attack upon the body, heart and spirit of so many. Hirsi Ali seemingly has been drawn to this fight by her own life journey.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaking at CPAC 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore
Born in Somalia 48 years ago to a devout Muslim family, Hirsi Ali at the age of five was subjected, under the consent of her own mother and father, to genital mutilation; at 20, faced with an arranged marriage accompanied by the threat that if she refused to go through with it, she would be murdered by family members in an “honor killing”, she fled to the Netherlands (also known as Holland).
It was in that northwestern European nation, where she further witnessed the brutality of Muslim extremists. In 2004, while serving as a member of the Netherlands lower legislative body, to which even then though a recently arrived immigrant, she had been elected the year before, Hirsi Ali co-wrote with Theo van Gogh the movie “Submission”. The film depicted the violence and abuse, including genital mutilation, committed against women in many Muslim nations. As a result of the controversy surrounding the film, both she and van Gogh received death threats from Muslim extremists. These threats proved to be anything but idle: later that year, Theo van Gogh, the great grandnephew of the legendary painter Vincent van Gogh, was murdered by a 26 year- old Moroccan-Dutch Islamic terrorist.
I want to thank the Queens Village Republican Club Board Members for the honor they are about to bestow upon me, being named Community Leader of the Year at the 143rd Anniversary Lincoln Dinner. My parents always encouraged me to give back to the community. 
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