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."
I live in Hudson County, NJ and I see my fair share of women in "ninja gear". Veil, or full burka helmet, the whole nine yards. These are generally Black women who do this too as my neighborhood has many Muslim immigrants and they almost always just wear a colorful headscarf and Western clothing.
That is the real spirit of Europe in 2006.
There are some Black women in burkas who I suspect of being actually American, don't know. Mostly they are Arabic appearing, although I did see an Anglo American woman in head scarf and drapey clothing at Savon's. I can't help but stare at them. Maybe that's tacky, but I am truly astounding that women choose this.
There we go...
It's a natural reaction to seeing someone who's lost his/her bearings.
I do the same thing whenever I pass one of the many out-patients roaming around this city.
"astounded"
It was an accoutrement devised by a Shia' cleric during the Lebanese civil war in order to prevent rape of Lebanese women by Arafat's goon squads of terrorists, thieves, and murderers.
Amir Taheri had an interesting column about how the headscarf has been used as a political symbol by violent Islamists in Western nations.
The left couldn't be happier promoting "multiculturalism". Most women's libbers are upper class women who detest the idea of lower class women or non white women sharing in their "ideals" of freedom. That's why you won't hear a peep from the women's lib crowd. After all, Margaret Sanger, that great admirer of Hitler promoted abortion as a method to control the profligate reproduction of the lower classes.
Same old leftist hypocrisy. Talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. They're done for, in my opinion.
Full English translation of letter by Van Gogh murderer
OPEN LETTER TO HIRSHI ALI
Dan-Cannon has translated the five page note that Van Gogh murderer Mohammed B. pinned to his victims body with a knife. Two remarks regarding Dan's translation. First, he questions his translation of the Dutch word 'leiding', which means either 'leadership' or 'guidance', depending on context. From the context, I agree with Dan's assessment that 'leadership' offers the best approximation. Second, Dan wonders about a passage in which Hirshi Ali is criticized for wanting to screen job applicants for their ideological background. Dan suggests Mohamed B. may be referring to the application of a staying permit or passport, but that isn't the case. His original translation is correct: Hirshi Ali was indeed referring to job interviews.
Press 'Lees verder' to read the entire translation.
http://www.zachtei.nl/2004/11/05/000430.html#meer
Glad you said "most."
Thanks.
A true champion of women's rights to be equal citizens. Something the West's feminists sold out. The alliance of Islam and women's movements is one of the more bizzare.
great article.
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/1271
But I suspect that the political Hijab/Foulard is not the same as the Burka.
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