[Daily Caller] As the basis for her conversion to Christianity, Ali saw Western civilization was under threat from three different but related forces: "The resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilize a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology."
As she considered those problems entrenching themselves, Ali believed civilization needed to find something uniting; Atheism was insufficient to do that. "The only credible answer," she wrote, "lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition."