"Calling things by their name." - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali gives her closing remarks at the Aspen Ideas Festival. She talks about some of the dangers of falling into a polite self-censorship when addressing Islamic terrorism.

Her original presentation can be found here.


The following is the article by Hassan Butt which Hirsi Ali mentions in the video.


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Uploaded: August 4, 2007 at 1:40 pm
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Video Comments:
amper0003 (November 28, 2008 at 11:11 pm)
Extremely bright woman. Unlike most western "intellectuals" she's got some guts to name the Devil it's right name, Islamofascism.
I admire her.
bobyloopo (November 16, 2008 at 9:45 am)
dont be fooled she got kicked out from holland cuz of
1- her age
2- her name
3- witnessing 5 civil wars
5- living in poverty when you saw her home in kenya and her school
6- not mentioning anything about her so called forced husband coming to her
7- escaping her father when she contacted him
8- not mentioning kenya or germany before she came to holland
9- not attending the wedding (look at her eyes people infront of you )
10- well i want you to guess it
TruthExposed123 (October 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm)
This damn lady ... no body everrrr knew her before she started writing books against Islam .. and after she started writing books she is now popping here and there everywhere in the tv and news ... so as soon as u write books against u become famous.. now u see no wonder people are coming up with books and stuffs against islam everyday ...Hope Almighty God would show these people the right track ..peace be unto all ...
SparrowSaltskin (October 28, 2008 at 8:36 am)
TruthExposed123:
Why don't you go to Somalia - and tell this to the bunch of cowards who just killed another woman (by stoning her) IN THE NAME OF ALLAH...?
MNramem2008 (October 24, 2008 at 1:41 pm)
Fuck you,your mother and your allah!
BobTKaye (October 17, 2008 at 9:21 am)
While we do not know everything, we do know that the Islamic texts contain instructions to be both tolerant and intolerant, peaceful and violent. What a small but growing minority of non-muslims are learning about is that the qur'an officially declared the peaceful tolerant verses null and void, leaving only the instructions to harm unbelievers and conquer the world. This is known as the 'principle of abrogation'. (See Chapter 2 verse 106 in the qur'an for reference).
DerEchteSenf (October 17, 2008 at 9:30 am)
What is your point? We still don't know what people really believe and what determines their behavior.
BobTKaye (October 17, 2008 at 9:43 am)
Well we know that muslims believe in the qur'an, and that the qur'an instructs them to do this. Surely that counts as determining behaviour? Not all muslims are aware of which parts are abrogated though, and many aren't really muslims since they do not follow the rules of Islam, otherwise the threat would be much more apparent.

What else can be described as determining behaviour if you don't count beliefs and intentions?
DerEchteSenf (October 17, 2008 at 10:22 am)
Hmm, youtube does not show my comments =/
DerEchteSenf (October 17, 2008 at 9:13 am)
Btw congratulations on voting down people with different opinions. You're real freedom fighters guys^^