When I Was With The Labor Party,

Every Time I Went On Tv I Got A Threat.

Infuriatingly Stupid Analysts - Especially People Who Called Themselves Arabists, Yet Who Seemed To Know Next To Nothing About The Reality Of The Islamic World - Wrote Reams Of Commentary [after 9/11]. Their Articles Were All About Islam Saving Aristotle And The Zero, Which Medieval Muslim Scholars Had Done More Than Eight Hundred Years Ago; About Islam Being A Religion Of Peace And Tolerance, Not The Slightest Bit Violent. These Were Fairy Tales, Nothing To Do With The Real World I Knew.

The Demand That Islam Makes Of Women Is To Not Attract Attention To Yourself, And If You Are In A Secular Society, That Attire Does Exactly That, And It Is A Political Symbol, No Longer Religious.

I Am Grateful To My Father For Sending Me To School, And That We Moved From Somalia To Kenya, Where I Learned English.

We Must Reclaim And Retake Feminism From Our Fellow Idiotic Women.