Blair, Tony, 172
blind sheikh. See Abdel Rahman, Omar
Bohler, Britta, 508n378
Bolkestein, Frits, 145, 217, 238
Bolton, John, 383
Boone, Brenda, 383
Boqor, Jinni, 28
Boqor, Yassin Musse, 74, 118, 125–26, 140, 146, 147, 151, 268, 269
Boqor family, 51
Bosnia, 60, 70, 74, 84–85, 88, 101, 115; Aafia Siddiqui and, 70, 77, 84, 85, 88, 115; Dayton Peace Accords, 115; Ramzi Yousef and, 77
Boston, MA: 2001, 9/11 attacks and, 155; Aafia Siddiqui’s Islamist activities in, 133–35; Al-Kifah in, 61, 69, 78–79, 84; Amjad Khan in, 106; companies with terrorist ties, 185; Islamic charities with terrorist ties, 83, 84, 101; jihadis in, 109, 155; Mosque for the Praising of Allah in, 95–96, 133
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 64
Bouyeri, Mohammed, xiii, xiv, 240–42, 279–81, 288–92, 319, 324, 462, 494n240, 499n279
Brandeis University, xvii, 119–24, 235, 244
Breivik, Anders Behring, 462
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 134, 142, 148
Brockes, Emma, 455
Bruckner, Pascal, 389
Bullock, Katherine, 95
Burke, Solomon, 201
Burney, Ansar, 412
Buruma, Ian, 288, 363, 389–90
Bush, George H. W., 74; “new world order” speech, 37, 74, 155
Bush, George W., xvi, 323, 326, 347; Aafia Siddiqui named by, 361; admission of holding prisoners without regard to law, 360; attacks on Taliban tribal areas and civilian deaths, 424; Iran attack proposal, 373; Iraq invasion planned, 177, 183; Iraq war/torture charges, 236–37, 439; Musharraf and, 270–71; “war on terror,” 171, 239, 360, 374
Bush, Laura, xvi–xvii, 364
Caged Virgin, The (Hirsi Ali), 98, 131, 180, 342, 346, 363, 485n131
“Caged Virgin, The” (Hitchens), 348–49
Cageprisoners, 355, 394, 395
Caldwell, Christopher, 322–23, 331, 341
Cameron, David, 456
Can, Sinan, xiii, 331–35
Canada, 51, 53, 56, 86
Cardi, Dawn, 442, 443, 450, 464
Care International, 83, 84–85, 107, 135, 141, 176, 177–78; Aafia Siddiqui and, 84; FBI and, 107, 109, 141, 156, 184–85, 187, 250; in Worchester, MA, 127
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): Aafia Siddiqui and, 299, 320, 329, 367–68, 416–17, 418; Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and, 258; deck of terrorist cards, 327; extralegal program, 360–61, 366; ghost prisoners, 367, 416; on Iran, 373; kidnapping of Saifullah Paracha, 261; “kill or capture” list, 329; Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan and, 284–85; Mowatt-Larssen on Aafia Siddiqui, 327–29; Osama bin Laden and, 129; secret prisons, 258, 337, 360, 394, 416, 449
Charlie Wilson’s War (Crile), 302
Chaudhry, Iftikhar, 366, 368, 375–76
Chaudhry, Shakil, 458
Cheema, Javed Iqbal, 298
Chehade, Mohammed, 188
Cheney, Dick, xvii, 348; war waged on “the dark side,” 171, 360
Cheppih, Mohammed, 200, 276
Chernow, Ron, 346
China, Muslims in, 60
Chomsky, Noam, 93
Chorus, Jutta, 276, 277, 283
Clash of Civilizations, The (Huntington), 94
Clinton, Bill, 108, 157
Clinton, Hillary, 107–8
Cliteur, Paul, 181
Cohen, David, 370
Cohen, Job, 179–80, 225, 238–39, 291–92
Comey, James, 219
Cook, Kenneth J., 405
Crile, George, 302
Crocker, Ryan C., 373
Crook, Clive, 362
Dabbs, Jenna, 451–53
Dajjal (Abu Lubaba), 344
“Dangerous Odyssey of a Muslim Voltaire, The” (Weisser), 414
“Daughter of the Enlightenment” (Caldwell), 323, 331
Dawah Resource Center, 95–96
Dawn newspaper (Pakistan), 248, 271, 272, 300, 367, 423, 436, 437
Dedrick, Daniel, 135, 142–43
de Graaf, Volkert, 193
de Grave, Frank, 228
De Groene Amsterdammer magazine, 254, 316
de Haan, Marc, 113, 483n113
Democratic Front for Salvation of Somalia (SSDF), 13, 17, 26, 28, 33, 40, 43, 52
DeMuth, Christopher, 348, 351, 384
Denmark cartoonist crisis, 324–26, 389
Dennys, Louise, 440
Deobandism, 5–6, 16, 33, 46, 60, 108, 127, 134, 148, 156, 164, 197, 300; airline hijacking and, 169; Hudood laws, 19, 21–22; Lal Mosque and, 305, 368, 376; Majid Khan and, 221; marriage roles, 134; in Pakistan, 18, 22, 60, 156, 164, 197, 300, 376; Saifullah Paracha and, 231; Saudi support, 16; suicide bombers, 431; Tablighi Jamaat and, 16; terrorism and, 60; on women, 127–28
de Swaan, Abram, 254
De Volkskrant, 191, 201, 212, 312, 359
de Winter, Leon, xiii, 172–73, 201, 205, 229, 326, 379
Donner, Piet Hein, 265, 311, 312–13, 314, 316
“Don’t Leave Us in the Dark—Give Us a Voltaire” (Hirsi Ali), 172, 179, 201
“Doomed to Vulnerability” (Mak), 314
Douglas, Susan, 446, 447, 455, 456
Douglass, Frederick, 391, 425
Dresselhuys, Cisca, 194–95, 204, 212, 265, 282, 312
Drogin, Bob, 455
Earle, Marlene, 69, 70, 141–42, 155, 156
Ebadi, Shirin, 175, 373
Eddaoudi, Ali, 200
Eenhoorn, Bas, 214
Egypt, 6, 15, 17, 67, 139–40, 174–75
Eid, Imam Talal, 133
Eindhoven Dagblad newspaper, 380–81
Elatik, Fatima, 256
Ellian, Afshin, 172
Elsevier newsweekly, 312, 381
Embattled Innocence, The (Ahmer), 105
Empire (Ferguson), 446
End of History, The (Fukuyama), 94
Enemy Combatant (Begg), 355, 393
England: al-Qaeda in, vii; Ayaan Hirsi Ali and, 370, 456; British intelligence, 286; Centre for Social Cohesion, 383, 384; London Underground bombing, 324, 354; Maryan Warsame and Hirsi Magan in, 190, 205, 264, 397–98; Muslim population, 371, 383; Somali immigrants, 62, 100, 103, 266; Yvonne Ridley and, 354–56
Erasmus, 236
Esack, Farid, 174
Esman, Abigail, 275
Eternal Jew, The (film), 316
Ethiopia, 13, 17, 56–57
Expatica Web site, 349, 504n349
Faaruuq, Abdullah, 96, 102, 123, 133, 166
Faris, Iyman, 222, 247, 251
Farooqi, Amjad Hussain, 271
Faruqi, S. H., 3–4, 169, 245, 260, 261, 271–72, 300, 429, 436–37; Aafia’s visit, Jan. 22, 2008, 385–88, 419
al-Fatmi, Noureddine, 318
“Fear in the Back of My Head, The” (film), 190, 201, 211
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Aafia Siddiqui and, xvi, xvii, 3, 107, 109, 114, 149, 185, 186–89, 220, 242, 245–46, 298; Aafia Siddiqui arrest (July 17, 2008), 399–406; Aafia Siddiqui interviews, 59, 187–88, 199, 218–19, 244, 249, 343, 412–13, 441; Amjad Khan interview, 187–88; at Bagram Airfield, 402; Care International and, 107, 109, 141 187; Osama bin Laden and, 129; Ramzi Yousef on Most Wanted list, 83; Siddiqui family and friends interviews, 184, 245, 246, 258–59, 260; snuff/pornography Web site and, 184; Uzair Khan and, 234–35; Uzair Paracha and, 247–48, 260–61; Web site, 247, 262, 270
feminism, 58–59, 84, 94, 175, 191–95, 256, 316, 339, 364
Ferguson, Niall, xiii, 445–48, 455–56, 468
Fink, Elizabeth, 417, 419, 435, 441
Finkielkraut, Alain, 314
Finland: Mohamud Artan in, 42, 51–52, 86; political asylum in, 42
“Fitna” (film), 389
Flight of the Intellectuals (Berman), 390
Fogteloo, Margreet, 254, 316
Foreign Policy, 390
Fortuyn, Pim, 145, 152, 153, 172, 190, 192–93, 200, 206, 225, 333; assassination of, 193, 202
Foundation f
or Freedom of Expression, 382
Fourest, Caroline, 381
Fukuyama, Francis, 94
Gailani, Ahmed Khalfan, 285
Gaithersburg, MD, 222–24, 234, 243, 248, 251, 259
Ganji, Akbar, 373
Garcia, Michael J., 413
Gardels, Nathan, 455
Gilani, Sheik Mubarak, 302–3, 306
Gilani, Yousaf Raza, 457
Glick, Caroline, 363
Global Relief Foundation, 101, 109, 115, 187, 259
Good Man Sometimes Beats His Wife, A (Luyendijk), 139
Gourevitch, Philip, 346–47
Groen, Janny, 242, 281
Grotius, Hugo, 236
Guantánamo prison, 182–83, 439; Ali Abdul Aziz Ali at, 252, 328–29, 463; assessment of Majid Khan, 221; Baltimore plot documents and, 231; Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and, 360, 450; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at, 360, 463; Moazzam Begg and, 355; prisoner Paracha, xii; torture at, 236–37; youngest prisoner, 304
Gul, Hamid, 156
Guled Ahmed Yusuf, 28
Gunaratna, Rohan, 101
Hafetz, Jonathan, 417
Haider, Syed Iqbal, 366
al-Hallak, Moataz, 142, 156
Halsema, Femke, 351
Hamilton College, 89
Hammad, Umm, 127
ul-Haq, Anwar, 436
ul-Haq, Ijaz, xi, 22, 59, 84, 271, 300, 375; Scroggins interview, 300–302
ul-Haq, Muhammad Zia, xi, xii, 18, 19, 21, 22, 84, 167–68, 199; death of, 24, 385
Harris, David, 325–26
Harris, Sam, 380, 382
Hasan, Khalid, 422–23
Hashmi, Farhat, 21
Hassan, Umme, 375, 396
Hassoun, Adham, 178
al-Hawali, Safar, 143
Haweya BV, 383
al-Hawsawi, Mustafa, 243
Hayat, Faisal Saleh, 260, 271
Hayek, Friedrich, 358, 414
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 68
Hermans, Tilly, 194, 202
Het Parool, 213
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan: appearance, xviii, 72, 113, 180, 212, 225, 312, 370, 455; awards for, 312, 323, 326, 347, 438; character and personality, 72–73, 112, 113, 137–38, 180–81, 195, 202, 203, 207, 213, 216, 319, 358, 370, 371; clan/lineage of, 10, 74; cousin, Magool, 137, 433; divorce from Osman Quarre, 146–47; emigration to U.S., 351; as English-speaking, 26, 62; estrangement from family, 264, 391, 407–10, 433; father’s relationship with, 14–15, 28, 52, 74, 75–76, 104, 118, 138–39, 146–47, 190, 195, 201, 202, 205, 264, 269, 340–41, 365, 391–92, 397–98, 409, 414–15, 425; financial support of family, 132, 409, 434; fortieth birthday, 447; Herman Philipse and, 276–77, 278, 311, 445; lawyer for, 508n378; lying of, 54, 64, 214, 215, 216–17, 332, 334–35, 339–42, 349–50; Marco van Kerkhoven and, 112–13, 117, 137–40, 144, 146, 151, 152, 194, 201, 203–4, 215–17, 391, 414, 447; marriage to Osman Quarre, 53–57, 73, 74–75, 81, 86, 334, 339–42, 349, 352; Niall Ferguson and, 445–48, 455–56, 468; pregnancy, 456, 468; reconciliation with mother, 433–34; similarities with Aafia Siddiqui, xviii–xix; sister’s death and visit to Nairobi, 131–32, 407, 485n131; as symbol, 466–68 U.S. green card for, 379; U.S. resident, 438–40; U.S. trip, 205–7
early years, 446; anti-Semitism taught to, 31; birth of, 11; devotion to Islam, 30–32; education in Kenya, 26–27, 29; emigration from Kenya, 52, 56–57, 62; father’s background, 9; female circumcision and, xviii, 12–13; in Kenya, 17, 26–33, 44, 49–50; mother’s background, 9; mother’s influence on, 27, 52, 56; secretarial school and, 32–33; secret marriage to Mohamud Artan, 42–43, 52–54, 86; in Somalia, 33, 39–44
Netherlands and: acculturation and happiness in, 111–12, 140; arrival from Kenya (1992), 62–63; asylum application (1992), 63–66, 192, 331–35, 338–42, 350; asylum crisis and expulsion, 349–53; Dutch mentors/foster family, 65–66, 87, 91, 100; early impressions, 71–72; earning a living, 81–82, 86–87, 151–52, 157; education in, 103; first TV appearance, 73; fluency in Dutch and, 71–72, 180, 228; freedom and, 76, 82; in hiding/underground, 201–4; Leiden home, 151; Leiden University and, 104, 111–12, 137, 144, 147, 152, 194; lodgings in Ede, 82, 87, 92; Muslim identity and, 140, 161, 162, 194; sister, Haweya and, 98–100, 103, 116–18, 131–32; as Somali-Dutch translator, 104, 111, 137, 152
politics and issues: American Enterprise Institute and, 342, 348, 369–70, 438–39; American Jewish Committee and, 342, 347–48; American neoconservatives and, 357–59, 369–74, 381, 382–84; attack on Job Cohen, 179; in Australia, 414, 445; backlash from position on Islam, 239–40, 369–74, 494n240; bodyguards for, 200, 202–3, 204, 215, 216, 278, 357, 362, 378–84, 390, 413, 414, 508n378; confrontational, accusatory style, 257, 276, 312–13, 359; critics of, 239, 240, 256–57, 264–67, 275–76, 311–19, 324, 363–64, 369–74, 439 (see also specific people); Danish cartoonist crisis and, 324–26; election to parliament, 225, 228; Enlightenment and, 153, 173, 179, 193, 194, 213, 239; “Enlightenment fundamentalist” charge against, 313, 314, 316, 363, 389–90; female circumcision and, 264–68; feminism and, 195, 316, 322; foundations set up by and for, 383–84; interest in politics, 112–13, 144; international attention, 212, 312, 322–25, 342, 346–49, 351–52; interviews refused by, 338–39; Iran war and, 237, 326, 347, 372; Islam criticism by, 153, 161–62, 171–75, 179, 180, 191–95, 200–201, 225–30, 240, 275, 313, 325, 334, 362–65, 370–74, 383, 389, 390; Islam defeat advocated, 372–73; “Islam needs a Voltaire” position, 171–72; Israel and the Jews, 31, 103–4, 347–48, 369; Labor Party and, 144, 152, 157, 179, 191, 205, 206, 211, 238; Liberal Party and, 204, 205–7, 211, 213, 214–15, 225, 226–28, 238, 254, 255, 274, 283, 311, 312, 318–19, 379; maiden speech to Liberal Party, 215; 9/11 attacks, reaction to, 157–58, 161–62; on Obama, 438–39; in Parliament, agenda and issues, 238, 254–57, 275, 313; as political candidate, 211–17; as professional critic of Islam, 389–91, 438–39; resignation from Parliament, 351; secret flight to U.S. for safety, 292–93, 311, 312; secure apartment for in The Hague, 316–17, 342; speech for AJC, 347–48; supporters and mentors for, 194, 201, 204–5, 213, 254, 313–14, 316, 318, 346–53, 379–84, 389, 510n389 (see also specific people); Theo van Gogh and, xiii, xv, 228–30, 276, 291–92, 462, 467; threats against life and, 190, 200–201, 203, 204–5, 264, 268, 278–79, 280, 288, 291, 292, 318, 319, 378, 390–91, 407, 408; three goals articulated by, 211; TV appearance, Barend & Van Dorp, on asylum lie and Islam as backward, 200, 216–17; TV appearance, Zomergasten, 278, 283; TV appearance on Buitenhof and employment controversy, 278; TV appearance on oppression of Muslim women, 190–91; TV appearance on Rondom 10 and Islam as “backward,” 200–201; TV debates on immigration, 152; TV debate with Esack and others, 174; in U.S., missteps, 369; U.S. war in Iraq and, 237–38; Visser’s interview with and reaction, 225–30, 237
writings and films: acclaim and, 390; Adan and Eva, 439; agent for, 212, 287, 324; The Caged Virgin, 98, 131, 180, 324, 342, 346, 363, 485n131; column in Algemeen Dagblad, 275; “Don’t Leave Us in the Dark—Give Us a Voltaire,” 172, 179, 201; Infidel, 53, 54, 63, 87, 98, 131, 144, 362–65, 407, 408; “It Is Time for Liberal Jihad,” 238–39; “Labor Party Underestimates Suffering of Muslim Women,” 204; Nomad, 51, 433, 440, 454–55; piece for Opzij, 194–95; Schagen documentary, 190, 201, 211; Shortcut to Enlightenment, 313, 358, 414, 439–40; The Son Factory, 215; “Submission,” xviii, 276, 277, 282–83, 287, 313, 316, 322, 462; “Submission” sequel, 311, 348, 439
Hitchens, Christopher, 348–49, 379–80, 454–55
Holman, Theodor, 190, 215–17, 228–30, 277, 282
Houston, TX, 33, 34, 36–37; Siddiqui family in, 33, 34
Hudson Institute, 326, 502n326
Human Rights Commission, 366, 367, 411, 420
Human Rights Watch, 339, 367
Huntington, Samuel P., 94–95, 205
Husain, Ed, 389
Hussain, Saghir, 395
Hussein, Saddam, 36, 226
India, 3–4, 5, 6
Indonesia, 221–22
Infidel (Hirsi Ali), 53
, 54, 63, 87, 98, 131, 144, 362–65, 407, 408, 440
Inside al-Qaeda (Gunaratna), 101
International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), 162, 487n162
International Justice Network, 248
International Organization for Migration, 100
Iran, 6, 18, 20, 32, 174, 175, 226, 274; U.S. war advocated, 237, 326, 347, 372, 373, 502n326
Iraq: Aafia Siddiqui and, 183; Ayaan Hirsi Ali on, 372; Persian Gulf War, 36; U.S. war in, 177, 183, 359, 373, 494n240; women in, 372
Isamuddin, Riduan (Hambali), 221
Islam: Ahl-e-Hadith sect, 127; Alevi sect, 333; al wala’ wal bara’, 36–37; anti-Semitism and, 31, 37, 77, 103–4, 173, 354, 364; Barelvis, 6; criticism of (see Hirsi Ali, Ayaan; Fortuyn, Pim); Dajjal, 37, 77, 116, 141, 157, 344; Deobandism (see Deobandism); hadiths, 5, 77, 124; Hanafi school, 33; homosexuality and, 152, 173; Hudood laws, 19, 21–22, 58, 175; Huntington’s predictions for, 94–95; internal scholarly debate, 162, 174, 487n162; Jesus as prophet in, 37; Last Day ideology and, 20; marriage, roles in, 134, 182; millenarian strain in, xix, 141, 143; moderate/liberal Muslims and, 173, 174–75; Muhammad the Prophet and, 226; polygamy in, 11, 40, 68; radical, 18 (see also Islamism; specific groups); reformers, nineteenth century, 3; as revolutionary political ideology, 7; Salafism, 16, 143, 226; sex and, 19, 173, 180, 490n180; Shiite, 6; Sufi, 6, 16; Sunni, 5, 6, 333; as total way of life (examples), 4–5; Wahhabism, 16; women’s treatment under, xv, xvi, 6, 7, 15, 19, 95, 105, 127–28, 134, 139, 275
Islamabad, Pakistan, 169, 243, 245; American Embassy in, 386; Deborah Scroggins in, 297–307, 310; F-7 Sector, 385; F-8 Sector, 303; Faruqi’s story of Aafia’s visit, 385–88; Jinnah Super Market, 386; Lal Mosque, 305, 368, 375, 376, 377, 395, 460; suicide bombing in, 431; U.S. Embassy in, Aafia as wanted and, 329
Islam and Modernity (Taqi), 21
Islamic Center of New England, 133
Islamism, xvi, xix, 6–7, 74, 119, 354, 355; in Afghanistan, 20, 304 (see also Taliban); anti-Semitism of, 15, 95, 128, 154–55, 305, 364; anti-Western stance, 59, 157, 161–62, 298, 326; al-Banna and, 116; in Bosnia, 70; Danish cartoonists threatened, 324–26, 389; in Egypt, 174–75; Hirsi Magan Isse and, 15; in Holland, 239, 288; ignorance of, in West, 171; Internet and, 288, 344; in Iran, 18; ISI aid to, in former Soviet republics, 60; “Islamic awakening” and, 162; legal defense of groups, 450; Muslim Students Association and, 35, 70; opposition to, 172, 174–75, 180, 200–201, 240, 325, 363, 364, 370, 372–73, 389–90; in Pakistan, 15–16, 20, 22, 59–60, 107, 244, 261–62, 301, 364, 400, 427, 468 (see also Jamaat-e-Islami); Qutb and, 17, 96, 116; in Saudi Arabia, 15–16; in Sudan, 174; takfir and, 173–74; threats to intellectuals by, 32, 175, 390; in the UK, 383; in the U.S., 35, 67–68, 85, 89, 93, 94, 106, 115, 129, 178 (see also Al-Kifah); in U.S. prisons, 96; women in, 169, 244, 354–56. See also al-Qaeda; Muslim Brotherhood; specific groups
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