Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the “Left” and “Multiculturalism”

(I like the post below so much that I have lifted it bodily from Transatlantic Intelligencer)

“The Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali has long been the object of death threats from Dutch Islamists. Since the murder last November 8 of Theo Van Gogh, she is under 24 hour police protection. Hirsi Ali describes herself as an “apostate” from Islam. In an interview published in last week’s issue of the French weekly L’Express [link in French] she says: “Since the September 11 attacks, I no longer believe in God. In the eyes of the fundamentalists who threaten me, that justifies my being put to death. They accuse me of ‘insulting’ the Prophet, of saying that Islam oppresses women, of ‘collaborating with the enemy’, that’s to say, with non-Muslims.”

Hirsi Ali’s break with Islam has been widely publicized.  Perhaps less known is her break with the “left”.  Originally, a member of the Dutch Labor Party, Hirsi Ali left the latter to join the classical liberal (I think this term will now be understood by Trans-Int regulars. In case of doubt, see discussion here.) VVD. L’Express asked her why.  Here is her response:-

“Because the left is exactly like the Muslims! I wanted to give priority to the defense of immigrant women who are victims of domestic violence. They said to me: “No, that’s not a priority! The problem will take care of itself when the immigrants have jobs and are integrated.” It is exactly what the Imams say who demand that we accept oppression and slavery today because tomorrow, in Heaven, God will give us dates and raisins.  I think we need first to defend the individual. The left is afraid of everything.  But fear of giving offense leads to injustice and suffering.  The sexual revolution, the affirmation of individual rights, improving the living conditions of immigrants - these were once the great causes of the Dutch left. In their eyes, the simple fact of belong to a minority gives one the right to do anything.  This multiculturalism is a disaster.  All one has to do is scream “discrimination” and all doors are open to you!  Scream ‘racism’ and your opponents shut up!  But multiculturalism is an inconsistent theory.  If one wants to let communities preserve their traditions, what happens when these traditions work to the detriment of women or homosexuals?  The logic of multiculturalism amounts to accepting the subordination of women.  Nonetheless, the defenders of multiculturalism do not want to admit it.”“

Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 07:23 AM in Liberalism & the Left
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Posted by Braveheart on May 31, 2005, 08:27 AM | #

From l’Express : Parler librement est en effet le seul moyen de mettre au jour le fardeau de l’islam.

Indeed, what we need is freedom of speech to shed light on what Islam really is. But that’s just the aspect that is most of all in danger these days, at least in Belgium.

Flanders,

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Posted by Fred Scrooby on May 31, 2005, 09:05 AM | #

This woman Hirsi Ali is no gift to the “right.”  She’s basically a leftist who sees the contradictions in multiculti and some other leftist hypocrisy and doesn’t appreciate the need for leftists to just forget that and play along in the interest of their longer-term goals.  That’s all she is.  (That said, it’s of course an absolutely intolerable outrage that there’s this fatwa against her life so that she must spend her days in hiding and under heavy police guard.  The Moslems who make this situation necessary and all the native Dutch who let them in in wildly excessive numbers should be sent packing back to their Moslem countries, the native white Dutch among the deportees never again allowed to set foot on the soil of the sacred Dutch nation they betrayed.  They like Moslems so much?  Good.  Go live with them.)

“what we need is freedom of speech”  (—Braveheart)

This is exactly right.  The race-replacers in Europe have got things rigged so that the natives in their own countries can’t protest against what’s going on, on pain of penalties for the crime of “hate-speech.”  The “hate-speech” laws have to be dismantled completely.

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Posted by Braveheart on May 31, 2005, 09:28 AM | #

And if a sarcastic leftist Belgian judge pronounces judgement and your penalty is to do “community work” as a “racist” among…Moroccans….

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Posted by Fred Scrooby on May 31, 2005, 10:26 AM | #

“And if a sarcastic leftist Belgian judge pronounces judgement and your penalty is to do ‘community work’ as a ‘racist’ among ... Moroccans ... .”  (—Braveheart)

Yes, the “community work” you must do as part of your restitution in that case amounts to getting two knives in your chest, as poor van Gogh got:  one to finish you off after the slitting of your throat to the point of your near-beheading, the other to hold the hand-written sign in place telling how you offended Allah by being anti-Moslem.  Who among the native whites over there is going to risk speaking out against what’s going on when judges have already meted out penalties like this (community-service work among Moroccans for the crime of “hate-speech against Islam”)?  No one, obviously—no one who wants to live, that is ...

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Posted by John Ray on May 31, 2005, 08:05 PM | #

Scroob
What happened to your affairs?
You seem to be as vocal as ever

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Posted by Fred Scrooby on May 31, 2005, 09:29 PM | #

John those chocolate chip cookies gave me an extra burst of energy.  (Anyway, glad to see you continue to notice my stuff ...  Poor Arcane had enough, it seems—suddenly stalked off, just like that, telling all of us Good riddance ... Called me a Hitler lover or something ...  Nice to know you’re still hanging in there, toughing it out, John ...  Greatly respect you for it ...)

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Posted by Andrew L on June 01, 2005, 01:41 AM | #

A little bit of a Nudge, at least they are introduced as Dutch Islamists, and not Mid East islamists, ummm, is there a difference apart from Geography? Or has the Dutch population converted to the Satanic cult of Islam or Muhammadism,can they fend against the French Islamists or even the Brittish Islamists or the Spanish ones,what about the tribal Islamists in Europe bloody hell.At least you get OIL. Was it all worth it ?

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Posted by Braveheart on June 01, 2005, 02:43 AM | #

Dutch Islamists? Mid East islamists?

The last I read about the Theo van Gogh murder is that the mastermind behind the Hofstad-group is a Syrian, who BTW is now safely back in Syria.

And if you consider that Harriri and Gemayel in the Lebanon were murdered by the Syrian secret service… then I privately already have drawn the conclusion that there is going on much more than an individual who executed the murder on his own initiative…

Also remind the sect of the assassins in Syria. Murdering infidels or whoever they don’t like is a Syrian custom that goes back to the time of the Crusades.

Flanders,

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