Deborah Scroggins gives her new book a structure most writers would do well to avoid. A double biography told in alternating chapters of two women whose lives never cross, “Wanted Women” tells the stories of Aafia Siddiqui, an advocate of extreme violence in the name of Islam, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who also started life a Muslim but became a major critic of the religion. They are close to the same age — Siddiqui was born in Pakistan in 1972 and Hirsi Ali in Somalia in 1969 — and both moved to Western countries in early adulthood.
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