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The essay "Why America Is the World's Shelter" appears in the June 2012 edition of Smithsonian, recently voted the most interesting magazine in America. Excerpt:
The essay isn't hard-hitting. However, I surmise that people who read Smithsonian don't read a lot of anti-jihad material. Maybe some of those people reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali's essay as they are waiting in a doctor's office or visiting the public library will go to the Internet to learn more or, better yet, buy one of her books.
By the way, an essay by Ayaan Hirsi Ali also recently appeared in Newsweek. You can ready that essay HERE.
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Recent Essay By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The essay "Why America Is the World's Shelter" appears in the June 2012 edition of Smithsonian, recently voted the most interesting magazine in America. Excerpt:
...I began receiving physical threats: “You are no longer a Muslim, you are an apostate, you must be killed.” Finally, in 2004, the Dutch director Theo van Gogh and I created the film Submission focused on violence against Muslim women. Van Gogh was killed by a Dutch-born Islamic fundamentalist on a street in Amsterdam because of it.Read the rest HERE.
Before van Gogh’s death I was placed under intense security. Afterward I was put in a virtual prison to keep me safe. The logical thing was for me to emigrate somewhere else, where I could be free and safe: I found that in America. In 2006 the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., offered me a job, a community of scholars, an application for a visa. The AEI raised money to pay for private protection, which I still have to this day. In terms of shelter and protection, this country has been so absolutely wonderful to me.
Today, I pursue the work of my foundation, which I established in 2007. Our mission is to protect and defend the rights of women and girls in the West from oppression and violence justified by religion and culture. By religion, I mean, first and foremost, militant Islam.
For me America is a place of refuge and a great nation. I say this without being blind to the problems we have in this country. But the people I have encountered here have given me protection, friendship, love. I feel not only safe, but also absolutely free to lead the life I wanted.
The essay isn't hard-hitting. However, I surmise that people who read Smithsonian don't read a lot of anti-jihad material. Maybe some of those people reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali's essay as they are waiting in a doctor's office or visiting the public library will go to the Internet to learn more or, better yet, buy one of her books.
By the way, an essay by Ayaan Hirsi Ali also recently appeared in Newsweek. You can ready that essay HERE.
- Cair Is Calling On Their Members To Condemn Faculty At Brandeis University For Recognize Ayaan Hirsi Ali With An Award
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on their members to condemn the faculty at Brandeis University for choosing to recognize Ayaan Hirsi Ali with an award The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on their...
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Geert Wilders Wants Islamist Who Murdered Theo Van Gogh to Testify at His Trial For Insulting Islam...From Weasel Zippers: Brilliant.... As the trial of Dutch anti-Islamist lawmaker Geert Wilders resumes Wednesday, the crucial question will be...
- France To The Rescue Of Hirsi Ali?
It seems so: Somali-born author and former Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali has appealed worldwide for help to fund her protection. She says she is daily receiving death threats because of her open criticism of extreme islam. Her dreams may...
- A Convincing Issue For The Democrats To Show They Are Serious People
Ayann Hirsi Ali is now living in hiding again, this time because America is failing Hat Tip Douglas Murray: The Dutch Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in a safe-house at an undisclosed location in Holland tonight after...
- Dutch Say Islam Is Incompatible With Modern Europe
A new poll shows the Dutch citizenry gets it. 63% say Islam is incompatible with modern Europe. Check out this report from polling firm, Angus-Reid Consultants: Many adults in the Netherlands hold strong views on the way Muslims adapt to the European...