TagsTagsIf you were wondering what Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s been up to lately, the Dutch flower bulb sector just named a tulip after her: Tulip named after activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. NEW YORK, November 6, 2009: In a ceremony on November 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Dutch flower bulb ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Flowers, Tulips, Horticulture, Holland, Flower Bulb Sector
Primetime Politics has a post with video clips of an interesting interview with Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Interview. I wonder if Ayaan was aware that the person interviewing her, Sally Quinn, is managing a web site that is doing more than any other mainstream media source to ...
LGF, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Radical Islam, Washington Post, sally quinn
Allahpundit has video of Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the O’Reilly show (with Laura Ingraham), starting off discussing the anti-Koran film by Dutch MP Geert Wilders (and the threats and turmoil it has caused even before being seen) and getting into the larger issue of Islamic supremacism in the West: Ayaan ...
LGF, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Radical Islam, Moderate Muslims, Geert Wilders
In the New York Times, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has an interesting review of Lee Harris’ new book: The Suicide of Reason. I was not born in the West. I was raised with the code of Islam, and from birth I was indoctrinated into a tribal mind-set. Yet I have changed, ...
In two parts, Fareed Zakaria interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali: [Video] [Video] (Hat tip: Hip Hop Republican.)
In light of the most recent appalling stories of barbarism and misogyny from the Islamic world, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has a piece for the New York Times this morning on Islam’s Silent Moderates. It is often said that Islam has been “hijacked” by a small extremist group of radical fundamentalists. ...
Spiegel Online profiles Ayaan Hirsi Ali with a hint of derision; apparently Hirsi Ali is a little too “Jacobean” for their taste. Still worth a read, though: Challenging Islam: The Odyssey of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Former Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali is worshipped by foreign intellectuals, but not always welcome ...
Ayyan Hirsi Ali has thanked Denmark for their offer of refuge, but says her home is in the United States. Persecuted author Ayaan Hirsi Ali said she was ‘touched and honoured’ by Denmark’s offer of protected residence but is choosing to stay in the United States. On Sunday, the culture minister, ...
LGF kudos this morning to Denmark, who have embarrassed the Netherlands and risked the rage of the tiny minority entire Islamic world by stepping up and offering to give refuge to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Brian Mikkelsen, the Danish culture minister, has indicated the government would be willing to allow outspoken ...
Chrisopher Hitchens is disgusted with the Dutch government, and calls on Americans to stand behind Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The lizard army already has her back, of course. For a while, her security in America was provided by members of the elite Dutch squad that is responsible for the protection of the ...
At the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum has a good opinion piece on the Dutch government’s disgraceful treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali (another manifestation of Europe’s appeasement of Islamism): A Dutch Retreat on Speech? Others simply want Hirsi Ali and her ilk to go away forever, thereby keeping Holland out of ...
Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende has told Ayaan Hirsi Ali to get out of the Netherlands, and stay out: Klein Verzet: Prime Minister: Hirsi Ali should leave the country! Today Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende has Dutch citizen Ayaan Hirsi Ali advised to leave the country and go ...
This is shaking out exactly as I thought it would; it was the Dutch government who canceled Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s security in the United States—after she received death threats in the United States. PARIS, Oct. 3 — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken Dutch critic of Islam who moved to the ...
At last we have a factual article about Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s return to the Netherlands: ’We Are Making Fools of Ourselves in the Eyes of the World’. And as I suspected, the claim published by Expatica that the United States had “refused” to pay for her security was not correct; as ...
Here’s an update on the situation of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who has returned to the Netherlands amid confused reports about the status of her security: ’Government should protect Hirsi Ali’. HILVERSUM – Former VVD minister Rita Verdonk thinks the government should provide security for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who returned to ...
I just got a chance to watch this video from Canadian television, an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali by Canadian über-progressive Avi Lewis. Lewis’ unquestioned faith in his leftist anti-American cant is unshakable, but Hirsi Ali is eloquent in response, as always: “There is no such thing as ‘Islamophobia.’” [Vid eo] ...
LGF, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Security, RoP, Misogyny, Militant Islam, Islamophobia
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is visiting Australia under tight security to give two sold-out talks, and local Muslim groups are seething and issuing veiled threats (as usual): Anti-Islamic writer stirs hatred, Muslims warn. University of Technology Sydney Islamic law lecturer Jamila Hussain said Hirsi Ali’s ideas were extreme and stigmatised Muslims. “I think ...
LGF, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Security, RoP, Misogyny, Militant Islam, Australia
Imam Fouad ElBayly of the Johnstown Islamic Center, who said that author Ayaan Hirsi Ali deserved to be killed for her views on Islam, has been tossed out. “The board and members of the Islamic Center of Johnstown were shocked and regret the comments made by Imam ElBayly regarding the visit ...
LGF, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Security, RoP, Misogyny, Militant Islam, Pittsburgh, Media Blindness
In response to the Johnstown Islamic Center’s Imam Fouad ElBayly, who said she deserved death for leaving Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali says, “This imam is being very honest.”
LGF, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Security, RoP, Misogyny, Militant Islam, Pittsburgh, Media Blindness
A reader of Jihad Watch picked up the phone and called the Johnstown Islamic Center, and who should answer but Imam Fouad ElBayly, who said publicly that Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be executed: A conversation with Imam Fouad ElBayly. I called the number and someone picked up and said ...
Militant Islam, Islam, LGF, Misogyny, RoP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Security, Pittsburgh, Media Blindness
When ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali appeared at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Muslim groups tried to have her speech shut down. And they made it clear that if they had the power, and US law were written according to shari’a, Hirsi Ali would not simply be prohibited from speaking. According ...
LGF, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Security, RoP, Misogyny, Militant Islam, Pittsburgh, Media Blindness
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who left the Netherlands to escape the threats from Islamic misogynists that forced her into isolation, is now being threatened by representatives of the Religion of Peace™ in the United States as well: Hirsi Ali under threat in US. AMSTERDAM – Former MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali is now ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Security, RoP, Misogyny, Militant Islam
Here’s a great piece by Christopher Hitchens on the media’s attacks on Ayaan Hirsi Ali—especially the scurrilous Newsweek article by a Muslim advocate that outraged us last month: Ayaan Hirsi Ali is no fundamentalist. In her book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali says the following: “I left the world of faith, of genital ...
An unbelievable smear job at Newsweek on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s excellent new book Infidel: The Controversial Memoir of a Muslim Woman. But Hirsi Ali’s memoir is as much about her political agenda as it is her life, andin between tales of her youth she wedges harsh and uncompromising declarations: “True Islam,” ...
Newsweek, Media Bias, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights
If the radical Islamists lose the support of the American left, they’re going to be in big trouble in this country. And when Bill Maher starts telling the truth about the Religion of Peace™, that trouble is just around the corner: [Video]