A Former Muslim's Grave Warning To America
Islam "has begotten a bloodthirsty ideology that is determined to destroy the principles of liberty and humanity and basic decency," ex-Muslim and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali said June 3 at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.Hirsi Ali knows what she's talking about. Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, she was raised Muslim. She spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia. She fled as a refugee to the Netherlands in 1992, where she earned a political science degree and was elected to the Dutch House of Representatives. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Hirsi Ali renounced Islam.Last week she accepted an award from the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which prides itself on "strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it."Some in the conservative movement refer to the annual Bradley Prizes event, which was emceed this year by commentator George Will, as the "conservative Oscars." The other recipients this year were James W. Ceaser, a political science professor at the University of Virginia; Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College; and retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, chairman of the Institute for the Study of War.The late Christopher Hitchens called Hirsi Ali, whose former religion forced female circumcision on her, someone "of arresting and hypnotizing beauty," and "a charismatic figure" who writes "with quite astonishing humor and restraint." In 2005, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.She famously said, "Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can."Her latest book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, was published in March by Harper. (It was reviewed by Katherine Ernst in City Journal.)"My argument is that it is foolish to insist, as our leaders habitually do, that the violent acts of radical Islamists can be divorced from the religious ideals that inspire them," she writes in Heretic. She continues:Instead we must acknowledge that they are driven by a political ideology, an ideology embedded in Islam itself, in the holy book of the Quran as well as the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad contained in the hadith.Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.For expressing the idea that Islamic violence is rooted not in social, economic, or political conditions or even in theological error but rather in the foundational texts of Islam itself, I have been denounced as a bigot and an Islamophobe. I have been silenced, shunned, and shamed. In effect, I have been deemed to be a heretic, not just by Muslims for whom I am already an apostate but by some Western liberals as well, whose multicultural sensibilities are offended by such insensitive pronouncements ... today, it seems, speaking the truth about Islam is a crime. Hate speech is the modern term for heresy. And in the present atmosphere, anything that makes Muslims feel uncomfortable is branded as hate.Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/a_former_muslims_grave_warning_to_america.html#ixzz3clNGVAPk Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
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