Ayaan Hirsi Ali: We Have Been Subverted

An Alaska SkyWest Embraer E175 aircraft flies over traffic on southbound Interstate 5 as it approaches San Diego International Airport. (Kevin Carter via Getty Images)
What is at stake in our ability to see the threat plainly? Nothing less than the preservation of our way of life.
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If you wonder why I—a woman of color, an African, a former Muslim, a former asylum seeker, and an immigrant—look at the antics of today’s anti-Israel, anti-American protesters with such fear and trembling, allow me to explain.
I was born in Somalia in 1969. The country had achieved independence nine years before. But less than a month before I was born—o…
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