[1][2] It is a collection of all articles (seven in total)[3] that Hirsi Ali had published up till then, and an interview with Dutch feminist author Colet van der Ven.

Plädoyer für die Befreiung der muslimischen Frauen)[5] and Italy (also published in 2005 together with The Caged Virgin and the scenario of Submission under the name Non sottomessa.

"[4] According to ex-communist Jolande Withuis, who discussed De zoontjesfabriek in NRC Handelsblad, Hirsi Ali formulated 'a time-honoured feminist point', namely that the specific interests and rights of women are unjustly forgotten or ignored when socialists frame them as part of an oppressed collective (in 1933, the working class; in 2002, the allochtonen).

For Withuis, "[s]uch criticism would weaken the position of the oppressed social class, you'd play into the hands of the 'right', and you'd accuse 'victims' of misdeeds (which is impossible in this mindset).

[3] For de Volkskrant, Wim Wirtz reviewed Hirsi Ali's book during the ongoing controversy about her statements and her defection from Labour to the Liberals.

'Whoever takes the time to uninhibitedly study the booklet De zoontjesfabriek (...) will have to try pretty hard to find any offensive texts in it,' he remarked, though adding that this might be because, as a Westerner, he 'is used to the possibility of having his whole kith and kine being subjected to discussion in a democratic Rechtsstaat without repercussions.'

'[8] Trouw journalist and theologian Lodewijk Dros coined the term Verlichtingsfundamentalisme ("Enlightenment fundamentalism") on 29 January 2003 when reflecting on De zoontjesfabriek and Hirsi Ali's recent statement that Muhammad was 'a perverse tyrant'.

Dros therefore put Hirsi Ali in a line of other radical atheists ('Enlightenment fundamentalists') such as Herman Philipse, Paul Cliteur, Maarten 't Hart and Rudy Kousbroek.