Posted on 01/04/2006 10:36:08 AM PST by Dark Skies
LONDON, 05/01/06 - Conservative (VVD) MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has won the Reader's Digest European of the Year Award 2006. "She is battling to raise awareness of the often-concealed plight of many Muslim women living in Europe," the magazine announced yesterday.
Hirsi Ali was selected by the European editors of Reader's Digest "as the person who best embodies the contemporary expression of Europe's values and traditions". She is the eleventh winner of the award, which she will receive at a ceremony in The Hague on 23 January.
Since being elected to the Dutch parliament in 2003, Somalia-born Hirsi Ali, who was brought up a Muslim, "has pushed through a raft of pioneering measures designed to help oppressed Muslim women, including the setting-up of a single national structure to deal with domestic violence, recording of incidences on ethnic lines, a register of honour-avenging killings and special training for police who deal with them. She carries out this work against a background of extreme personal danger."
Hirsi Ali wrote the script for the short film Submission, highlighting the oppression of Muslim women, whose director Theo van Gogh was murdered in broad daylight in Amsterdam in November 2004. A letter threatening Hirsi Ali was pinned to his body. "She was forced to go into hiding but soon returned to public life and her work in parliament because she believes that she can help change the lives of Muslim women and, ultimately, the climate that breeds extremism."
Bob Low, European Bureau Chief of Reader's Digest, commented: "It has taken a young woman born outside Europe to show Europeans the sort of courage and determination that is needed to confront extremism and to uphold the values of tolerance and justice that we hold dear. We are proud to honour her."
Good news bump.
I wonder how many 7th century troglodytes are racing to issue the fatwa first.
She's already under a fatwa and has 'round-the-clock police protection.
Very nice.
Bump for a courageous woman!
Wait, I thought all Muslims lived in peace and harmony? What is this 'plight of Muslim women'? /MSM thought
BTTT
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/images/content/Euro_of_Year_spread
/sarc
Gosh, I've never heard of this film! Imagine that?
It is always a chilling sight to see a woman in a burka on our streets, in our stores, etc. This is America! Women are free here!
Reader's Digest Europe might want to batten down its hatches for a few months.
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"Troglodyte". Excellent word. Worth at least 9 points.
Darn right she has it in for Muhammad's cult of death. I'm pretty sure those troglodytes gave her a vaginal circumcision. Which means a woman gets no joy from sex http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-49,GGLG:en&q=%22vaginal+circumcision%22
I am thrilled that shed got this award. I have tried to encourage women's organizations in this country to take up this cause, but they always have an excuse (don't want to interfere with relegion, etc).
Good News Ping!
Thanks for the ping!
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