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Ayaan Hirsi Ali : : A Muslim Woman Speaks Out
The New York Times ^

Posted on 02/10/2006 4:15:18 AM PST by Raj13008

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WoW !! Wonder if she is single...
1 posted on 02/10/2006 4:15:20 AM PST by Raj13008
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"I had to speak up," she said, in a telephone interview from her hiding place, "because most spokesmen for Muslims are men and they deny or belittle the enormous problems of Muslim women locked up in their Dutch homes."

I'm calling on the U.S. National Organization for Women to come out and loudly support this Muslim woman.

2 posted on 02/10/2006 4:34:09 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta (There's always a reason to choose life.)
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But the mood in the Netherlands, as in much of Europe, changed after Sept. 11, 2001. In the month that followed, there was an unheard of backlash against the nearly one million Muslims living in the Netherlands, with more than 70 attacks against mosques. Sept. 11 also gave politicians licence to vent brewing animosities.

I dont recall hearing about this - I thought Europe hated America?.....the press says so

3 posted on 02/10/2006 4:35:47 AM PST by Revelation 911 (God is love, Love endures forever, Love God, Love your neighbor, Vengeance is mine)
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Wonder if she is single.

That's a safe bet.

Brave lady. I hope she survives. Wish she'd stay here, where she would be a little more safe. She's a sitting duck in Holland, unless she goes around completely veiled.

4 posted on 02/10/2006 4:37:25 AM PST by Capriole (The Anti-Feminist)
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Bring this girl to the US and let her speak out here. She could be a huge catalyst for change and understanding.


5 posted on 02/10/2006 4:40:34 AM PST by rintense
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Yes, her story needs wider circulation. In this case it does seem right and proper to lobby for women's rights, under Islam.

Ann


6 posted on 02/10/2006 5:08:44 AM PST by Cloverfarm (Children are a blessing)
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To: Raj13008

Let HER go to any muslim country and let's see if she is still allowed to Speak Out!

It's easy when your in someother land like when Dems go to Europe to attack President Bush and or America.


7 posted on 02/10/2006 5:44:28 AM PST by funkywbr
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Let HER go to any muslim country and let's see if she is still allowed to Speak Out!

What the heck are you talking about? This woman is an articulate spokesman for our side (I heard her do a great radio interview for...BBC? NPR? It's worth looking for). She lives in hiding under constant threat of death in the Netherlands.

8 posted on 02/10/2006 5:53:45 AM PST by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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Dead woman walking- almost certainly.


9 posted on 02/10/2006 6:05:46 AM PST by US admirer
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To: prion

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Sure she can talk out.

But if she were a Muslim woman in a muslim country she wouldn't be talking out about anything.


10 posted on 02/10/2006 6:30:48 AM PST by funkywbr
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But if she were a Muslim woman in a muslim country she wouldn't be talking out about anything.

She knows that! That's her whole complaint.

11 posted on 02/10/2006 1:14:56 PM PST by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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Your "Relgion of Peace."


12 posted on 02/10/2006 1:25:09 PM PST by F16Fighter
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So what the hell are you talking about???

How BRAVE she is to talk about about the repressive musSCUM culture while she's in a protective State???

She's nothing unless she goes home and makes a stand there.

If she is as you say KNOWN then when she is killed maybe OUTrage will be sparked but I DOUBT it...

1 cause she'll never FACE her FEARS

2 cause they'll kill her and she'll just be another NOBODY.

F, even Salman Rushdi aint got the Balz to FACE his fears!

He hides from his heritage like another puzzy not willing to do what those lamebrain Murder Bombers do daily, DIE for their beliefs...


13 posted on 02/10/2006 1:25:46 PM PST by funkywbr
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Figures. You're the only person on the thread who doesn't praise the woman.

Instead you engage in juvenile antics.

14 posted on 02/10/2006 1:43:48 PM PST by sinkspur (Trust, but vilify.)
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As one who truly KNOWS the truth about Muslim men (unlike you), this woman describes the rites of Islam you praise as not only a threat, but as peachy keen "peaceful" folks.

Thank God you weren't born a Muslim woman.

15 posted on 02/10/2006 1:54:53 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Raj13008
I'm considered an apostate and that's worse than an atheist

Muslim apostate = death sentence

16 posted on 02/10/2006 1:57:03 PM PST by Gritty (After the West prostrates itself, Islamists will say Allah has made the infidels spineless-Hirsi Ali)
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I don't "praise" Muslim rites. And I don't need any lectures from you about Muslims.


17 posted on 02/10/2006 2:00:28 PM PST by sinkspur (Trust, but vilify.)
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She's nothing unless she goes home and makes a stand there.

Look, you funkyWhackBurgeR, until YOU go to Saudi Arabia and preach the Bible from a street corner, I don't care to ever hear you talk about this brave woman again!

18 posted on 02/10/2006 2:07:06 PM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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Aaaw, but Sinky, according to you, Islamists have been given a bum rap.

Then again the only ones YOU run into are at convenience stores and some "nice" neighbors.

Reality is quite different as this woman attests to.

19 posted on 02/10/2006 2:08:43 PM PST by F16Fighter
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Figures. You're the only person on the thread who doesn't praise the woman.

Huh? Have you read funkywbr's posts?!?

20 posted on 02/10/2006 2:10:16 PM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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