Ignoring the problem means abandoning the next victims to their fate; even worse, it means abandoning the core values that sustain Western society. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

What the media also do not tell you is that America is the best place on the planet to be black, female, gay, trans or what have you. We have our problems and we need to address those. But our society and our systems are far from racist.

I too was ill prepared for the West. The only difference between my relatives and me is that I opened my mind.

On campus after campus I would stare in despair at these confident young men and women, born in the United States, who had so manifestly benefited from every advantage of Western education yet were determined to ignore the profound differences between a theocratic mind-set and a democratic mind-set.