Violence against women is a global problem transcending religious boundaries

Evidence

Hirsi Ali’s narrative is also missing any effort to place violence against Muslim women in a broader global context or to analyze the many possible factors that generate and perpetuate violence against women throughout the world, not just in Muslim countries. When reading or listening to Hirsi Ali, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that one in four women in the United States have experienced violent abuse from an intimate partner, and one in five have experienced an attempted rape. In Europe, one-third of all women report having experienced a sexual or physical assault. Such statistics are shocking, but they are also indicative of a global problem of violence against women that transcends religious and geographical boundaries. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 487

Categorization

• SEED: Data point for an article countering the ‘oppressed Muslim woman vs liberated Western woman’ frame with comparative domestic-violence statistics.
• XREF: connects to: Ancient religious and legal codes across cultures uniformly framed woman as vile or subordinate.