Posted on 04/20/2016 8:10:21 AM PDT by george76
New York was recently the scene of a heated debate on the status of Muslim women under Islamic law.
In it, one of the bravest women in the world, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, faced off against three other Muslim women and a hostile moderator, Barkha Dutt.
Dutt, known for her soft spot for Muslims in her own country of India,
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Hirsi Ali immediately recognized she was being set up to run a gauntlet of criticism and so chose to go for the jugular.
I reject Islamic law because its totalitarian ... because its bigoted and especially bigoted against women Where Islamic law becomes the law of the land ... women will need a male guardian, child marriage is reintroduced, you will be disinherited. If you are raped its your fault, and you will get stoned to death ... I reject Islamic law because its inherently hostile to women. It is so bigoted.
To applause from the audience, Hirsi Ali concluded: We will not defeat and we will not eradicate these practices, unless we talk about the principle, and the principle is enshrined in the Islamic law, unreformed.
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One of the most heated moments occurred when Hirsi Ali brought up the issue of child marriage, giving the example of Prophet Muhammads marriage to Aisha, who Islamic scholars insist was only six at marriage, while the marriage was consummated when she was only nine.
That is Islamic law, Hirsi Ali asserted.
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It seems conflicts within Islam that began 1,400 years ago on the deathbed of Prophet Muhammad, are going to be with us for as long as we Muslims remain oblivious to our surroundings.
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
She is an atheist so I doubt it.
Yet - there are Muslim reformers, like Zhudi Jasser, who get it but will never get an audience because he is considered an apostate.
Thank God I’m not a muslim!
Martin Luther's movement was a back to the basics, back to the original text movement. ISIS is the equivalent back to the basics, back to the text movement.
Remember the brutal murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of a Muslim , Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants.. After Bouyeri shot van Gogh, he calmly stood over the body and cut his throat with a curved machete, a ritual Islamic sacrifice.
for making a movie with the Somali-born Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali .
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
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