Astute listeners may remember Europe’s immigration crisis circa 2015, in which more than 1 million people, many of them refugees, made their way to the continent. Today, Jonah is joined by one of the most informed public intellectuals on the matter, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In addition to her first-hand account of leaving Somalia for the West, she also comes loded with information from her new book, Prey, which recounts many of the ways in which affected European nations have either struggled or outright failed to assimilate this largely Muslim population. Ayaan admires Jonah’s “chivalry” on these issues, but makes it clear that one of the direct effects of this failure is a continual erosion of women’s rights in countries that are otherwise considered beacons of social progress.
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JG, thanks much for this podcast - stuff like this is what makes the subscription worthwhile (I can get all the rants about a rabid orange ape and MTG I want for free elsewhere on the interwebz).
Thank you for this episode. It is so encouraging to know that someone like Ali is on this case.
Truly interesting to ponder the question of why there isn’t more outrage amongst Muslim communities about the treatment of Uighurs in China.
It is also interesting to think about the inverse problem of the #metoo movement in the treatment of women in Europe by lower class immigrants. Thanks for touching on these difficult topics in a thoughtful way.