The Smiley Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and made it ultimately to the US after a route that included time in Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia and Kenya and then the Netherlands, where she became a member of their House of Representatives.
She wrote the screenplay "Submission" about Islam, the faith she was raised in. Theo van Gogh made this movie, and a jihadist killed him for it. Ms. Ali has many death threats against her. She has written books and made many appearances warning about the jihadist faction within Islam, and continues that effort here. The interview is interesting.
I wrote of a portion of it yesterday (starting at about 10:00), in which Tavis Smiley mistakenly claimed that the Columbine shooters and Timothy McVeigh were motivated by Christianity, and that Christian terrorism happens in the US "every day."
She is gracious and articulate. It's a good interview. (A Hat tip to
Marmoe who provided the link.)
http://video.pbs.org/video/1504840416/
And here is a Guardian interview, with a provocative lead-in:Ayaan Hirsi Ali enters an apartment in New York followed by a bodyguard. The 40-year-old, who for the last six years has been unable to turn up at a venue without it being checked by security, is a writer, polemicist and critic of Islam. She is also a Somali immigrant, an ex-Muslim, a survivor of child genital mutilation, an exile many times over, a former Dutch MP, a black woman whose language would not, in places, look amiss in a BNP pamphlet, a remarked-upon beauty and a lady-in-peril, identities that lend her as a figurehead to disparate causes and bring on confusion in the people she meets.
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She wrote the screenplay "Submission" about Islam, the faith she was raised in. Theo van Gogh made this movie, and a jihadist killed him for it. Ms. Ali has many death threats against her. She has written books and made many appearances warning about the jihadist faction within Islam, and continues that effort here. The interview is interesting.
I wrote of a portion of it yesterday (starting at about 10:00), in which Tavis Smiley mistakenly claimed that the Columbine shooters and Timothy McVeigh were motivated by Christianity, and that Christian terrorism happens in the US "every day."
She is gracious and articulate. It's a good interview. (A Hat tip to
Marmoe who provided the link.)
http://video.pbs.org/video/1504840416/
And here is a Guardian interview, with a provocative lead-in:Ayaan Hirsi Ali enters an apartment in New York followed by a bodyguard. The 40-year-old, who for the last six years has been unable to turn up at a venue without it being checked by security, is a writer, polemicist and critic of Islam. She is also a Somali immigrant, an ex-Muslim, a survivor of child genital mutilation, an exile many times over, a former Dutch MP, a black woman whose language would not, in places, look amiss in a BNP pamphlet, a remarked-upon beauty and a lady-in-peril, identities that lend her as a figurehead to disparate causes and bring on confusion in the people she meets.
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