Written on Their Skin

There are believers who try to change Islam from within. And then there are apostate reformers like Ayaan Hirsi Ali. After fleeing from Somalia to the Netherlands in 1991 to escape an arranged marriage, she renounced Islam, calling it "an extremely backward religion." In 2003 she became an M.P. for the liberal VVD party and published The Son Factory , a book decrying the oppression of Muslim women. She followed up with a sequel, The Virgin Cage , last week. As her latest provocation, she has written and narrated a film called Submission , which relates stories of domestic violence, and displays passages from...