I Hope the West Does Not Give In: An Interview with Seyran Ates
PART ONE: When the publication of her new book, "Islam Needs a Sexual Revolution," caused a spike in death threats, the Turkish-German lawyer Seyran Ates cancelled her German book tour and instead flew to New York to visit the well-known American feminist Phyllis Chesler. Chesler, who is now a regular contributor to rights.no, has interviewed Seyran Ates for us. "We come from a tribal culture," Ates says. "We have not learned how to be or live alone. Individualism is not valued. You are nothing without your family. But some very high-profile honor murders in Germany were due to re-establishing contact with a dangerous family. Often, the mothers would give their daughters a sob story to lure the girls home. The girls returned and were murdered."