Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 9, 20 | Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie

[Son of Dis]

As you read this, Ayaan Hirsi Ali sits in a safe house with armed men guarding her door. She is one of the most poised, intelligent and compassionate advocates of freedom of speech and conscience alive today, and for this she is despised in Muslim communities throughout the world. The details of her story bear repeating, as they illustrate how poorly equipped we are to deal with the threat of Muslim extremism in the West.

Hirsi Ali first fled to the Netherlands as a refugee from Somalia in 1992 after declining to submit to a forced marriage to a man she did not know. Once there, in hiding from her family, she began working as a cleaning lady. But this cleaning lady spoke Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Swahili, English and was quickly learning Dutch, so she soon found work as a translator for other Somali refugees, many of whom, like herself, were casualties of Islam. These women had been abused, mutilated, denied medical care and proper educations and forced into lives of sexual subjection and compulsory childbearing.

[BKerr]

Good read. She needs to move to a conservative state and carry a gun. Her buddy in the Netherlands didn’t have that option as they are a very liberal country and he paid with his life.

[bboop]

So WHY did she leave the US? She was much better off here. It sounded like a pout to me — ‘They won’t provide me protection.’ And???? Get your own. Get a gun.