Amira and Muna, like so many Muslim girls, were seen by their families as little more than incubators for sons. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Contempt for women is inscribed in the works of Saint Paul.

The intellectual tradition of the European Enlightenment, which began in the seventeenth century and produced its greatest works in the eighteenth, is based on critical reasoning. It employs facts instead of faith, evidence instead of tradition. Morality in this worldview is determined by human beings, not by an outside force.

So this, in a nutshell, was my Enlightenment: free inquiry, universal education, individual freedom, the outlawing of private violence, and the protection of individual property rights.