Prey : immigration, Islam, and the erosion of women's rights

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Why areso few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment inEuropes cities? No one in a position of power wants to admitthat the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrantsmost ofthem young menfrom Muslim-majority countries. In Prey, thebest-selling author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, presents startlingstatistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexualviolence in Western Europe surged following a periodof stability. In 2018 Germany, offences against sexualself-determination rose 36 percent from their 2014 rate;nearly two-fifths of the suspects were non-German. InAustria in 2017, asylum-seekers were suspects in 11 percentof all reported rapes and sexual harassment cases, despitemaking up less than 1 percent of the total population.This violence isnt a figment of alt-right propaganda,Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. Its a realproblem that Europeand the worldcannot continue toignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men whoarrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence,tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim worldfrom institutionalized polygamy to the lack of legal and religious protections for women.A refugee herself, Hirsi Ali is not against immigration.As a child in Somalia, she suffered female genital mutilation; as a young girl in Saudi Arabia, she was made to feelacutely aware of her own vulnerability. Immigration, sheargues, requires integration and assimilation. She wants Europeans to reform their broken systemand for Americansto learn from European mistakes. If this doesnt happen,the calls to exclude new Muslim migrants from Westerncountries will only grow louder.Deeply researched and featuring fresh and often shocking revelations, Prey uncovers a sexual assault and harassment crisis in Europe that is turning the clock on womensrights much further back than the #MeToo movement isadvancing it.