Human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a Somali-born Muslim who was an avowed atheist after 9/11, but now she says is a born-again Christian because it has proved in the age of terrorism and the "erosion of our civilization" to have "it all."
Radical Islamic terrorism is the march of a "religious war" that people reject, and even leads them to Christianity, she argued. Breaking down her transformation, Ali lamented her early participation in Muslim ideology that radicalizes the notion the "greatest achievement possible was to die as a martyr for the sake of Allah.""The most striking quality of the Muslim Brotherhood was their ability to transform me and my fellow teenagers from passive believers into activists, almost overnight," she wrote. "We didn't just say things or pray for things; we did things.
"Western civilization is under threat from three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin's Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilize a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology, which is eating into the moral fiber of the next generation," she wrote.
The mere fact the free West permits freedom of speech and religion led to her rejection of the forced compliance by Islam and atheism.