Yvettep
"Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 852 Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 02:32 pm: |
|
I think Kola has previously posted about Ali. I came across this on Salon.com: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a member of the Dutch Parliament, is one of the most sharp- tongued critics of political Islam -- and a target of Islamic fanatics. Her provocative film "Submission" led to the assassination of director Theo van Gogh in November 2004. The murderer left a death threat against Hirsi Ali pinned to van Gogh's corpse with a knife. Thirty-six years old and a member of Holland's neo-liberal VVD Party, Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, where she experienced the oppression of Muslim women firsthand. When her father attempted to force her into an arranged marriage, she fled to Holland in 1992. Later, she renounced the Muslim religion. Though she spent a brief period in hiding following van Gogh's murder, Hirsi Ali has returned to Parliament and is continuing her fight against Islamism. She recently published a book, "I Accuse," and is working on a sequel to "Submission." In an interview, she spoke about the upheaval over the publication of controversial Danish cartoons, arguing that if Europe doesn't stand up to extremists, a culture of self-censorship and fear of criticizing Islam -- one that she says already pervades Holland -- will spread across Europe. Read the whole interview here: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/07/hirsi_ali/ |