People and Politicians Sharply Divided in Netherlands
THE HAGUE, 09/01/08 - The politically-correct elite in the Netherlands is no longer able to neutralise dissident views, according to Ayaan Hirsi Ai. “A chasm between the elite and the people has really emerged,” she said yesterday in an interview with De Volkskrant.
The Somali-born apostate of Islam, who left the Dutch parliament in 2006 and now lives in the US, signals that since the rise and fall of politician Pim Fortuyn - murdered in 2002 - it is no longer taboo in the Netherlands to be critical of immigrants. At the same time, this criticism does not lead to a change in policy. And to try to halt this criticism, even the monarchy is deployed by the elite, Hirsi Ali suggests.
“The Queen gave the impression in her Christmas speech of choosing one side. This she should not do, she must remain above the parties. (…) Calling for respect and tolerance is fine, but the significance of these concepts in this debate is that people with a different view should keep their mouths shut. But going back in time, that is impossible.”
Læs resten HER i Nis News Bulletin. Og den næste artikel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali anmelder Lee Harris nye bog The Suiside of Reason:
Blind Faiths
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Several authors have published books on radical Islam’s threat to the West since that shocking morning in September six years ago. With “The Suicide of Reason,” Lee Harris joins their ranks. But he distinguishes himself by going further than most of his counterparts: he considers the very worst possibility–the destruction of the West by radical Islam. There is a sense of urgency in his writing, a desire to shake awake the leaders of the West, to confront them with their failure to understand that they are engaged in a war with an adversary who fights by the law of the jungle.
Harris, the author of “Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History,” devotes most of his book to identifying and distinguishing between two kinds of fanaticism. The first is Islamic fanaticism, a formidable enemy in the struggle for cultural survival. In Harris’s view, this fanaticism has acted as a “defense mechanism,” shielding Islam from the pressures of the changing world around it and allowing it to expand into territories and cultures where it had previously been unknown.
With few exceptions, Harris sees Islamic expansion as permanent. Although this point is arguable, he bravely attempts to make the case that the entry of Islam into another culture produces changes on every level, from political to personal: “Wherever Islam has spread, there has occurred a total and revolutionary transformation in the culture of those conquered or converted.”
Læs resten HER. Hodjas blog har sendt et reservelink i tilfælde af at det første skulle forsvinde. Mange tak for det. 
Desuden video fra Axess-tv - den første er fundet via Snaphanen. Helt utroligt har det svenske Axess-tv censureret både Timothy Garton Ash og Ayaan Hirsi Ali netop som de taler om ytringsfrihed. Man hører i stedet en kort hyletone. Begge videoer nedenunder er fra 2007.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali versus Timothy Garton Ash
Islam’s compatibility with democracy, the rule of law and freedom of speech is a subject of immense salience and importance in the early 21st century. In the Royal Society of Arts in London, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who lives under a death threat imposed by Muslim fundamentalists, debates this problem with Timothy Garton Ash, who has in the past criticised her for being an ‘enlightenment fundamentalist’.
Videoen varer 1 time og 10 minutter og startes HER - åbner i ny side. Og næste:
Global Axess - En kvinnas kamp mot patriarkatet
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, författare till bästsäljaren Kräv er rätt!, har både hyllats och hotats till livet för sin hårda kritik av islam och dess kvinnosyn.
Videoen starter HER. Varighed 40 minutter.
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