Posted on 09/10/2008 11:24:17 AM PDT by george76
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s entire life has been a battle of opposing beliefs. She was raised in a strict Islamic household where at a young age she was tormented by the religion’s abusive teachings towards women and violence towards non-believers.
As she grew up, she was tempted by the allure of Western cultures, but had been taught to hate Americans and their alliances with the Jews.
one... decision she knew she had to make: To denounce her faith in Islam; a religion she now viewed as completely cruel and intolerant, or side with the same religion the hijackers of 9/11 claimed gave them the right to take the lives of American infidels.
“I asked the question that none of us (Muslims) are supposed to ask: Is there a God, is there a hell?”
On this, the seventh anniversary of 9/11, perhaps nothing could be more fitting ... For Ali, turning her back on her religion was no small thing.
She knew letting go of her religion could mean losing her family, spending eternity in hell and possibly even her death.
Though Ali escaped the third world countries she’d been raised in, she couldn’t escape Islam’s impact on her life.
A few months after Ali and her friend Theo van Gogh filmed a movie about the mistreatment of women in Islamic cultures, van Gogh was brutally murdered by an Islamist extremist in the streets. The attacker shot van Gogh eight times and slit his throat before stabbing a letter threatening Ali’s life into his chest.
“I do not regret anything in my life except the death of Theo van Gogh,”
(Excerpt) Read more at vaildaily.com ...
No regrets
I read her book, “Infidel”. Courageous woman. She will always lead a tough life.
Great story of a very brave woman.
Thanks for the ping.
Thanks geo and neverdem:
Living to Bomb Another Day
NY Times | September 10, 2008 | Ronen Bergman
Posted on 09/09/2008 9:01:45 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078769/posts
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: http://ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/ayaanhirsiali/english/index.html
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