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Last Updated: Tuesday, 24 January 2006, 11:06 GMT
"Dutch MP defies Muslim pressure"
By Jane Beresford
Producer, Taking a Stand, BBC Radio 4
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Ayaan Hirsi Ali wanted to shape her own future
What turns a devout young Muslim woman into one of Islam's most outspoken critics?
For the Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, it was a long journey that started with an arranged marriage.
She sought refuge in the Netherlands on her way to her new husband's home in Canada.
"I wanted a chance at a life where I could shape my own future," she says.
"I knew the risks - being disowned or being shunned by my father and the rest of my family. I took those risks and I don't regret it."
Hirsi Ali describes the anti-US attacks of 11 September 2001 as pivotal to her questioning of Islam."
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January 25, 2006
Iran: We can put Israel in 'eternal coma'
The 1938 Updates are coming thick and fast. From YnetNews, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater:
Iran threatens again: Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said Wednesday that the country and its allies could put Israel "in an eternal coma," like that of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, if Israel attempts to attack the Muslim republic.
"Israel does not have the courage to attack Iran, and if it commits such a big mistake, the defenders of Islamic Iran will put Israel in an eternal coma like Sharon," he said in a television appearance.
Najjar, who branded the United States and Israel as "the great and little Satan, who are using psychological war to intimidate Iran," was responding to recent statements by Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, who said Israel may attack Iran if diplomatic measures to neutralize its nuclear armaments efforts fail.
"The state of Israel will not be able to accept Iranian armament, and must prepare to defend itself. The Iranian president's regime supports terror in the Middle East by providing terror organizations with rockets that threaten Israel, money and knowledge," Mofaz said at the Herzliya Conference Saturday.
Posted at January 25, 2006 02:46 PM