Tag: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Islam May Not Be the Enemy, But the Enemy Is Islamic
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has earned the right to be critical of Islam. She was raised as a devout Muslim in Somalia and Kenya. At the age of five, her genitals were cut in a barbaric Somali ritual at the insistence of her Islamic grandmother. In her twenties, her Islamic father gave her in marriage to […]
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My Hero, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, on Islamic Death Threats
In the midst of the controversy over "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" it’s important to keep in mind the nature of the man being mocked. The Prophet spread his message at the point of the sword, and apostasy was only one of many transgressions for which the penalty was death.
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Surprise! “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” Draws Threats
The theory behind "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" is that the jihadis can’t kill all of us. Let’s hope there are no casualties at all.
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More from Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Mohammed’s Image
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls for a campaign of solidarity with the makers of South Park, who were the targets of veiled death threats after daring to invoke the name of Mohammed on their cartoon show. The entertainment business, especially Hollywood, is one of the wealthiest and most powerful industries in […]
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May 20 is “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”
The suits at Comedy Central have aided and abetted terrorism by censoring an episode of South Park to remove all references to Mohammed. They followed in the courageous footsteps of the Yale University Press, which, before publishing a book about the Danish cartoon controversy last year, deleted the actual cartoons from the manuscript. South Park […]
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Eloquent Economic Commentary from Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, my hero, sings the praises of open markets in a tightly edited, 6-minute video on the Templeton Foundation site, part of a series of discussions about “big questions” such as “Does the free market corrode moral character?” English is at least her fourth language — she was born in Saudi Arabia, came […]
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Revisiting “What’s the Matter With Islam?”
Commenter McDaddyo caught me in a bit of bloggish sloppiness in my recent post titled “What’s the Matter With Islam?” In that post I quoted Phyllis Chesler: Have the Princes of Saudi Arabia, the mullahs of Iran, the imams of Cairo, Baghdad, and London, the various Palestinian factions condemned the carnage? Did I miss it? […]