Abigail R. Esman
ARTICLES BY: Abigail R. Esman

#NoHijabDay Campaign Fights Women’s Subjugation and Indoctrination
The first time that my friend Nour appeared in public without her scarf, a neighbor commanded her to put it on. When she refused, he...

Recent Case Spotlights the Rampant Abuse of Saudi Women
When Rahaf Mohammad Alqunun barricaded herself in a Bangkok hotel room earlier this month and took to Twitter, begging the world to protect her from...

Who Will Stop Iran’s European Hit Men?
It is just before dusk when gunshots sound on a quiet residential street in November 2017. A man falls to the sidewalk. A dark BMW races...

Are American Girls at Risk After Court Ruling on FGM?
As her aunt held her down, the child screamed and fought desperately to escape. But even as she struggled, the woman sliced at the child's...

European Intelligence Officials: Islamist Terror Threat Is as Strong as Ever
It has become "the new normal," a structural part of 21st-century life. And the jihadist threat against the West is just as strong now as...

Dutch Help Victim of Pakistan’s Radical Islamic Blasphemy Law
When courts overturned Asia Bibi's blasphemy conviction in her native Pakistan last week, rioters swarmed the streets calling for her to be hung. Pakistani law demands the...

Belgium Fights Islamic Terror, While the UK Enables It
Of late, most of Europe has focused its counter-terrorism efforts on handling the potential jihadi returnees from Syria and possible radicals hiding among migrants from...

Latest Attack, Travel Warning, Expose Depth of Holland’s Terror Threat
Mention Holland, and most people think of brightly-colored tulips, gently-flowing canals, legal marijuana, and Rembrandt. But there is an underside. The US State Department issued a travel...

French Say ‘Non’ to Radical Islamist Performer at the Bataclan
On November 13, 2015, a series of Islamist terrorist attacks shook the city of Paris. One hundred and thirty people were killed, and hundreds others...

Investigation Finds That Dutch Program Aided Terror-Tied Groups
When "Driss M" left his home in the Netherlands to join the fight in Syria, he was, he said later, heading there to fight against...

Pew Skews Study on Muslim Girls’ Education
When a Taliban gunman shot Malala Yousafzai, then a 15-year-old student activist in Pakistan's Swat Valley, it brought long-needed attention to the struggle for girls'...

New Book Examines the World of Female and Child Palestinian Bombers
The number of Palestinian female suicide bombers are many. There was Muneira, who planned to blow herself up at a hospital near Tel Aviv. There was Jemilla,...

Female Jihadists Are a Growing Problem
Only one person could have written the book Invisible Martyrs: Inside the Secret World of Female Islamic Radicals. And thankfully, she did. Farhana Qazi, a Pakistani-American counter-terrorism...

How Quiet Islamization Threatens Secular States
While all eyes have focused on the obvious problem of Islamist violence in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, the Congo, and Muslim communities in Western European cities,...