Books and Arts; Book Review; Women and Islam;God-daughters;A biography of two women whose lives have been transformed by militant Islam;Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. By Deborah Scroggins.Ayaan Hirst Ali and Aafia Siddiqui are forceful, intelligent women who were born around 40 years agoin the heart of the conservative Islamic world, into families of some prominence.Later, they moved to America.Like tens of millions of others who made similar journeys,they had to negotiate the interface between an immigrant sub-culturethat harked back to the homeland and a liberal society where very different options existed.Presented with two sharply contrasting value systems, two diametrically opposed ideasabout the meaning of virtue, success and fulfilment, they had to make their choices.There, it would seem, the resemblance ends.Somali-born Ms Hirsi Ali is an admired public intellectualwho denounced Islam as an oppressor of her sex and the source of many other woes.Ms Siddiqui is serving an 86-year prison sentence in Fort Worth,Texas, after being convicted of shooting at the American officers detaining her in Afghanistan.A Pakistani-born neuroscientist who excelled in her studies at leading American universities,
