She also says, “I think you just can’t drone bad ideas out of people’s heads,” although she doesn’t exclude drones as a means of persuasion. Hirsi Ali urges Muslims to undertake a reformation, but military force is a poor way to bring this about.įor the record, as a member of the Dutch parliament, Hirsi Ali voted to support the U.S.-led coalition in the war in Iraq, which she now apparently thinks was a mistake. military intervention in Muslim-majority countries, which invariably kills innocents, is likely to drive people to more not less extreme forms of Islam. One thing that follows from this fact is that U.S. government and its allies, including Israel. But that doesn’t mean we should overlook the crimes committed against innocent people in the Middle East by the U.S. Yes, Muslim fanatics (often with the help of not-terribly-devout recruits, incidentally) have committed atrocities against innocent people, including other Muslims, and we should say so without hesitation or euphemism. In my view, she interprets a geopolitical conflict, which is the result of a century of Western imperialism, as a civilizational conflict. government responded to what she regards as the “civilizational conflict” between the Islamic world and the West, she believes that the United States must engage in that conflict so as to “emerge out of it triumphantly.”
But of course that doesn’t mean she doesn’t get some important things wrong.įor example, while Hirsi Ali disagrees with how the U.S. Hirsi Ali is obviously intelligent, courageous, and nuanced. As a result of the film, Van Gough was murdered in 2004. Hirsi Ali escaped from a marriage arrangement and then became a pariah among Muslims, including her own family, and even the target of a murder conspiracy because of her public statements and writings, her break with Islam, and her collaboration with director Theo van Gough on the film Submission. I find much to admire about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch-American scholar, author, and one-time politician who has drawn international attention to the violence against women and girls not only in Muslim-majority countries but also in the West at the hands of Muslim immigrants.
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