Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ma sœur

Pour Chahdortt Djavann, écrivain*, «des femmes comme Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Taslima Nasreen, moi et bien d'autres, mesurons et apprécions la valeur de la laïcité encore plus que ceux qui en ont bénéficié dès leur naissance».
" Je propose que l'Union européenne reconnaisse la fatwa (incitation au meurtre) comme un acte criminel et engage des poursuites internationales contre ceux qui décrètent des fatwas. "
Source Le Figaro - Debats

Ayaan Hirsi Ali fut une des premières femmes d'origine musulmane, sinon la première, qui a défendu ma position sur le voile islamique en 2003. Je fus pour ma part une des premières femmes d'origine musulmane à la défendre sans aucune réserve après l'assassinat de Theo Van Gogh. Elle est pour moi une âme sœur, une compagne intellectuelle. C'est normal, nous sommes toutes les deux d'origine musulmane et toutes les deux nous défendons le droit de critiquer l'islam et ses dogmes. Nous sommes, aux yeux des musulmans croyants, des apostats. À plusieurs reprises, lorsque la possibilité m'en a été donnée, j'ai dit clairement et publiquement ce que je pensais des menaces des extrémistes musulmans, aussi bien lors de la loi contre les signes religieux à l'école que dans l'affaire des caricatures de Mahomet ou des fatwas prononcées contre des individus d'origine musulmane ou non. Je pense que nous sommes face à une épreuve importante. Il relève de la responsabilité de la France de se mettre en avant et de pousser l'Union européenne à défendre et à protéger Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Je propose que l'Union européenne reconnaisse la fatwa (incitation au meurtre) comme un acte criminel et engage des poursuites internationales contre ceux qui décrètent des fatwas. Le droit de critiquer les religions et leurs dogmes est un droit essentiel, indispensable à l'existence de la démocratie. Des femmes comme Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Taslima Nasreen, moi et bien d'autres mesurons et apprécions la valeur de la laïcité encore plus que ceux qui en ont bénéficié dès leur naissance. La défense d'Ayaan Hirsi Ali est l'affaire des démocraties européennes, mais elle est avant tout l'affaire des intellectuels d'origine musulmane, hommes ou femmes, qui, comme elle, ont eu l'audace, au risque de leur vie, de critiquer l'islam et ses dogmes. Sa sécurité est leur sécurité.
N'oublions pas que le premier à lancer une fatwa contre Salman Rushdie fut Khomeyni, le guide de la révolution iranienne, préalablement accueilli et protégé par la France. Du fait de cette erreur historique et politique, la France a une responsabilité particulière : elle a le devoir de défendre et de protéger les victimes des fatwas. Il appartient à la France de prouver que, au-delà du clivage politique gauche-droite, elle reste la patrie des droits de l'homme.

* Auteur de À mon corps défendant, l'Occident (Flammarion) et de Bas les voiles (Gallimard).

les écrivains Frisons au secourt de Mme Ayaan H. Ali

Le cabinet Neerlandaise ne veux pas payer
et les écrivains Frisons protester serraient
dans Iepen brief - lettre ouvert de Frisons
écrivains publice par Leeuwarder Courant;

21 Schrijvers op bres voor Ayaan Hirsi Ali;
It Nederlânske kabinet hat besletten om
de befeiliging fan Ayaan Hirsi Ali op 1 okt.
ober 2007 net mear te bekostigjen.

Texte complement sur http://willemschoorstra.web-log.nl/opium_foar_t_folk/2008/01/fjoe.html

Mei dit brief wolle wy, Fryske skriuwers, mei klam tsjin dit beslút protestearje.

Wy fine it beslút yn it foarste plak ûnakseptabel omdat it kabinet in Nederlânske steatsboarger, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, op dizze wize ûnnedich grut gefaar rinne lit. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in frou mei in miening. Dy miening hat se troch de jierren hinne tige kenber makke. Dêr kin men it mei iens wêze of net; dat is de frijheid dy’t elkenien hat. Sa’t Hirsi Ali it rjocht hat om harsels te uterjen. Fanwegen har frijmoedige krityk op religieuze slettenens is hja al faak bedrige. Dat sokke drigementen ferskriklike gefolgen hawwe kinne, bewiist de dea fan skriuwer en filmer Theo van Gogh.

Mar wy fine it beslút ek ûnakseptabel omdat it gefal Ayaan Hirsi Ali op sa’n eksimplaryske wize it rjocht op frije mieningsutering fertsjintwurdiget, ien fan de kearnwearden fan in frije, demokratyske maatskippij. De oerheid fan in frije demokrasy hat de plicht om noed te stean fan de ferkundigers en ferdigeners fan it frije wurd: keunstners, opinymakkers; elkenien dy’t him yn de iepenbierens uteret. As it Nederlânske kabinet de befeiliging fan Hirsi Ali net mear bekostigje wol, jout it in ferkeard sinjaal ôf en ûndergraaft it de demokrasy.

Wy roppe it kabinet dan ek op om syn ferantwurding te nimmen en wer jild frij te meitsjen om Ayaan Hirsi Ali de beskerming te jaan dy’t se spitigernôch nedich hat.

Wobbe Atsma

Joop Boomsma

Ulke Brolsma

Tsead Bruinja

Eppie Dam

Koos Dalstra

Josse de Haan

Jouke Hylkema

Eric Hoekstra

Ytsje Hoekstra

Simen de Jong

Aggie van der Meer

Jelle van der Meulen

Huub Mous

Teake Oppewal

Willem Schoorstra

Meindert Talma

Jabik Veenbaas

Abe de Vries

Geart de Vries

Sito Wijngaarden

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Not since lions tore apart slaves for the prurient enjoyment of the mob has Europe witnessed a spectacle as revolting as Hirsi Ali’s appearance last week before the European Parliament. Before the eyes of the world, a leading citizen of the Netherlands begs the legislature of Europe to protect her against assassins whose declared goal is the destruction of Europe’s liberties as well as its civilization.

Thus far, the authorities of Europe have made clear that they will do nothing to prevent the murder of a prominent citizen. The Dutch government turns its back. Europe’s Parliament listens politely and refers the matter to committee. A group of French MEPs has invited her to apply for French citizenship so that the French government might offer her protection. eos: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JB20Dj08.html

"Religious fundamentalism, when it threatens death to anyone who dares criticise the symbols or ideology of a religion, is a direct threat to the fundamental freedoms of the individual." Source: English Aljazeera.net ; Islam critic in EU protection plea

Ayaan Hirsi Ali told the European parliament in Brussels "The threats to my life have not subsided. If anything they have only increased. And the cost is beyond anything a private person can pay or raise ... I come here to ask you ... to establish a European fund to finance the protection of people like me, whose only crime is free speech."

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She has attempted to raise funds herself, but describes with characteristic eloquence the vortex she has found herself in: "It has become swiftly apparent that the best I can do is raise enough money to pay for the security detail that accompanies me to fundraising meetings." & "I don't want to die. I want to live and I love life. I'm in a desperate situation," Ayaan Hirsi Ali said this week, addressing law-makers at the European Parliament in an attempt to secure EU funding for the 24-hour personal security, Photo El Pais - Paris
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/hermione-eyre/


From Reuters;

The Dutch government stopped paying the 2 million euros ($2.9 million) a year bill for protecting Somali-born Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch parliamentarian, in October after she left to join a U.S. think-tank in 2006.

"There is an initiative by French lawmakers of the Socialist Party and intellectuals put to the French government to make her French and let the French government take care of her protection," said Ingrid Pouw, Hirsi Ali's spokeswoman.

Hirsi Ali is now paying for her own protection from donations, said Pouw.

"She is collecting money on a monthly basis," she said.
French lawmakers have also tabled a motion to the European Parliament to get the bloc to pay for her protection, citing freedom of expression and the values of democracy, she said.

"It will be a solution to her problem," said Pouw. She said Hirsi Ali would be willing to take up French citizenship if it would help her get French funding for her protection.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1163232720080211
Photo: Aha in EU-parliament
during presentating of the written motion:

"demande que l'Union européenne prenne les mesures nécessaires à la prise en charge de la protection de Mme Ayaan Hirsi Ali – qui n'est plus assurée aujourd'hui par les Pays-Bas –, quel que soit le pays où celle-ci a choisi de résider, afin de ne pas restreindre davantage sa liberté, déjà entravée par les menaces"

to be signed by 393 (1/2 +1) other European MPs in order to have effect.

Hirsi Ali zegt nee tegen Danmark

Nu blijkt er ook nog een 19 internationale steden voor vluchtelingen netwerk ter zijn; "de International Cities of Refuge Network (Icorn), an initiative comprising 19 towns around the world offering asylum to authors under threat"
19/4-07: The government together with the Danish branch of international literary organisation PEN has

De govt samen met de Deense Tak van int. literatuur org. PEN heeft

decided to join the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) that grants persecuted

besloten aan te sluiten bij icorn die geeft vervolgde

literary personalities a safe haven and stipends.

schrijvers personen een veilig onderkomen en stipendia/toelagen.

ICORN, which was founded by Salman Rushdie after he was made the target of an Islamic fatwa in 1989 for his novel ‘Satanic Verses’*, is a worldwide network of cities that allow writers to continue their work without fear of reprisal from authoritative regimes. *sar-stanza's; treiterrijmen en dwanggedichten. b.v. aantal engelen moest rijmen, zodat het er acht ipv 7 werden wat gewoon veel is waardoor complete woestijnvolken met ander engelgetal opeens duivelaanbidders werden.

Brian Mikkelsen, the culture minister, said he considered ICORN as a way for Denmark to demonstrate its support for freedom of expression.

Danish Culture Minister Brian Mikkelsen was quoted as saying today.

"Ayan Hirsi Ali should top the list of writers who, in my opinion, should be invited to (come and live in) Denmark. She has, more than anyone, fought for freedom of speech and she has, more than anyone, faced personal threats on her life," Mikkelsen told the Jyllands-Posten daily.

He called on Danish towns to offer to house the Somalian-born Hirsi Ali within the framework of the International Cities of Refuge Network (Icorn), an initiative comprising 19 towns around the world offering asylum to authors under threat, which Denmark plans to join.

The following cities are either hosting a writer now, or have committed to receiving a writer within the next year:

Kristiansand

Edinburgh

Molde

Skien

Chiusi

Tromsø

Trondheim

Grosseto

Stavanger

Hannover

Gothenburg

Bergen

Mexico City

Stockholm

Oslo

Norwich

Barcelona

Frankfurt

Potenza

Title	ICORN : international cities of refuge network
Description	The International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) is an international organisation for persecuted writers, and operates as an "association of cities and regions around the world dedicated to the value of Freedom of Expression". The ICORN website has details of the organisation, its aims and membership, its events, and contact details. There is a quarterly ICORN Newsletters in PDF format, which is freely available on the website. As of June 2007, four issues of the newsletter are available. In addition, the 'Babel webzine' sidebar gives free access to many profiles of writers, poems, testimonies, essays on inter-cultural communication, region profiles, and spoken audio files. The Babel webzine can be searched by keyword.
URL	http://www.icorn.org/ [English]
URL	http://icorn.org/ [English]
Keywords - controlled	censorship; censors; freedom; authors; journalists; publishers
Keywords - uncontrolled	free speech; freedom of speech; human rights; first amendment; book burning; banned books; cultural sanctuaries; empire of the mind; dictatorships
Type	Associations; Journals - full-text
Classification	Communications, Media and Culture > Journalism > Gender or Sexuality in Journalism Communications, Media and Culture > Journalism > Journalists Communications, Media and Culture > Publishing > Bookselling Philosophy > Political Philosophy English Studies > English Literature English Studies > Philosophy and Religion
Responsibility	ICORN (Author)
Publisher	ICORN (Publisher)
Country of origin	Norway

AAI sets up ABBA Tabernacle

American Bible Beltway Atheists set up taburnakel;
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Atheist Alliance International "Crystal Clear Atheism"

After seeing her give a speech at AAI a few weeks
ago (which will be on the DVD from RDF of that
event) I have new found respect for her situation.

American Atheists & Beltway Atheists will be tabling (setting up a tent, and a table with first amendment materials) in Washington DC (@ Dupont Circle).

Why:

It’s important to make people aware of the Constitution, and the Jeffersonian Wall of Separation of Church and State being attacked and undermined by the Religious Dominionists in the United States.

How:

American Atheists and Beltway Atheists are going to be providing people with first amendment materials about Separation of Church and State, as well as information on the Bill of Rights. We will also be asking people how they feel about Separation of Church and State, in attempts to engage them on the issue at hand.

Highlights from the Atheist Alliance International Convention 2007:

• Hearing Ayaan Hirsi Ali start a sentence with “Fundamentalist Islam…” and then quickly correcting herself by saying, “well, Islam… ”
• Listening to a question posed to Ali: “Why are Americans so stupid?” Her response: “Well… [it’s] only half of them…”
• Seeing Richard Dawkins stand in line to ask Ali the question, “May I nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize?”
• Hearing Christopher Hitchens avoid answer one attendee’s query by saying: “Your question didn’t give me enough of an erection.”
• Hearing Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson and Hollywood screenwriter Matthew Chapman explain why he should be up for sainthood: “If an old lady who argued against contraception in the slums of Calcutta can be up for sainthood, so should I for having done nothing.”
• Hearing Chapman also say that for a woman to be religious, it was like “a freed slave still living on the plantation.”
• Staring at the word “ATHEIST” and realizing that you can unscramble it and get “EAT SHIT.”
• Being really upset that at one point, Dawkins, Harris, Ali, Hitchens, and Dennett (all of whom have made The New York Times bestsellers list) were in the same room, and there was no photo opportunity with all of them together.
• Hearing Dennett joke that “Atheism is a chick magnet.”

More from jezblog;

Ayaan Hirsi Ali had a hypnotic effect on her audience. Her beauty and eloquence, her bravery and intellect, the sheer extraordinariness of her life, she is simply an incredible person. A perfect embodiment for this audience of secular rationalists of all the possibility in the triumph of reason over tribalism and superstition. They loved her. I loved her. She was fantastic.

Her latest book Infidel has caused more controversy and sadly she must have body guards at all times even in America.

Clearly she is amazingly strong willed and defiant but she also has a wonderful modesty and gentleness about her as she speaks from the rostrum and with her admirers afterwards

Enlightenment fundamentalists & cultural relativists

French philosopher Pascal Bruckner accused Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash of propagating a form of multiculturalism that amounts to legal apartheid. His fiery polemic unleashed an international debate. By now Timothy Garton Ash, Necla Kelek, Paul Cliteur, Lars Gustafsson, Stuart Sim and Ulrike Ackermann have all entered the ring. Read their contributions as well as Ian Buruma's initial response at sign and sight website.

In The view from the Vistula: Journalist Adam Krzeminski gives a Polish perspective on the multiculturalism debate and warns against oversimplified analogies between Islamic and Eastern European dissidents;

I read the debate launched by perlentaucher and signandsight.com between the "Enlightenment fundamentalists" and the "cultural relativists" ... in Poland there is also no argument worthy of its name about Turkish EU accession.

Not even the National Catholics are opposed to it. Too lasting an impression was made on Polish minds by the legend that the Ottoman Empire never recognised the partition of Poland in the 18th century, and that at official occasions in the Sultan's palace the Polish ambassador was ritually invoked only to be excused as "temporarily delayed".

In Western eyes the Poles are often compared with the Turks, as Norman Stone did for example in 2005 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and which was reported in Poland without provoking too much outrage. After all, Polish historians like Janusz Tazbir point out that Polish Sarmatism, that ideology of the Polish nobility which was an autistic mixture of Marianism, Polish self-sufficiency and a mistrust of the Enlightened West, assumed in the 17th-18th centuries such oriental traits that Friedrich II referred contemptuously to the Polish nobility in their Turkish skirts as "Europe's Iroquois" when explaining to the European public why the Polish-Lithuanian nobility-run republic had become so fragmented.

Historical analogies are tempting, yet they can be misleading. Take the comparison between Islam and communism drawn by Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the height of the "cartoon conflict" in her speech in Berlin. It had initial impact but is not convincing in the long run.

The back-up offered to her by Ulricke Ackermann did not make things any better. "The sympathetic reading of Islam recalls that of communism before 1989," she writes. "At the time, the West's self-hatred and invalidation of the accomplishments of free democracy were expressed in a generous interpretation of communism. A similar phenomenon is to be seen in attitudes towards Islam today, in large part thanks to its anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism. Many Western intellectuals had reservations about Eastern European dissidents because they were only fighting for the so-called 'bourgeois liberties.' Many dreamed at the time of a 'third way' between capitalism and communism. The analogy is evident in the terminology: Stalinism could be criticised but communism was handled with kid gloves. Today, criticism of Islamism is common sense, but criticism of Islam has to be conducted with care."

Even if one were to argue that communism - at least in the Russian-Orthodox variation, is an instrument of political theology, it would still be a gross oversimplification to compare it – this still-born theory – with a millennium old monotheistic religion. And whatever the differences between Stalinism and communism – even in the Soviet Union it was never a deeply internalised religion that was carried by the people. It was a social promise and a belief system that was imposed top down and with force. And it imploded by itself like a soap bubble after just 70 years.

Further to the demonization of women

under Islam a contribution from Times of India Bad time to be Muslim by SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM who "teaches history in UCLA" and I quote;

Ironically, 9/11 has given such views an audience that they would otherwise never have possessed.

The writer, a history teacher, has a very short memory if he thinks an event like 911 would create the audience for making a career out of and earning a living of peoples fear of islam.

An example of how Islamophobia truly pays is provided by the recent case of the Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who after a brief career in the Dutch parliament is about to leave that country for a radical right-wing think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, known for its hand behind the war in Iraq and Republican foreign policy.

The writer who is a history teacher does not know most Dutch MP's only serve one termin of 4 years since they are selldom chosen twice and since the governement's minister for immigration stipped her of her citizenship Hirsi was forced the give up her lawseat.

Though acclaimed by the likes of Time magazine and Christopher Hitchens, it is now amply clear that Ali gained Dutch citizenship under false pretences, claiming to be a political refugee from Somalia, when in fact she was a long-term resident of Kenya.

The writer who is presented by the Times of India as a teacher of history is not awear that Somalia does not have a international recognitized governement. Not now and not in the year 1992 with civil clanwars when Hirsi asked for asylum and names Hirsi's use of her mothers name Ali and change of her birthyear 1969 into 1967 to avoid beinging traced by her tribe or enemies thereof "false pretences". The Somalian people lived in the now Ethiopia, Puntland, Somalia and Kenia countries long before the Frence, Italian and British colonisators divided it up between them and made those arteficial borders.

In Holland, after flirting with a variety of other tendencies, she was eventually associated with radical Islamophobic movements, and her collaborator Theo van Gogh was murdered in the streets in November 2004 by Mohammed Bouyeri.

The writer who teaches his story at UCLA fails to observe the murder in Amsterdam took place on the same date November 2 as the Balfort declaration granting jews permission to settle in Palestine then a British protectoraat since the Turkish occupier lost with the Germans world war one. The letter pinned through the dying corps during the slaughter by Muslim assassin Mohammed is about Hirsi being a slave of her jewish masters. This Mohammed from
is a Arabized berber who sees black women as slaves.

She has then gone on to use a variety of platforms to promote herself, even finding common cause with anti-immigration parties (despite her own history), and playing the card of Islamophobia in the name of an allegiance to the "Enlightenment".

Enlightenment is defined by Schopenhauer as using one owns thinking and being mentaly grown up. Her vvd party is sort of anti immigration since it drives the middelclasses and shopowners out of the cities and only poverty remains since the immigrants offspring have no means and ways to support themselfs and the second and thirt generation blames it on the open society they chose to live in! The PvdA used NB a Cohen to write the anti immigation laws that got implemented by a vvd minister.

The vast number of awards she has garnered, in comparison to a number of genuine feminists, social workers, and other public intellectuals, shows once and for all that Islamophobia does pay, especially coming from a former Muslim. At this rate, Ali will be the Bernard Lewis of tomorrow.

The writer teaches history in UCLA but predicts the future!
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM disqualifies himself out of his profession by promoting his political opion that Islamophobia has to do with getting payed for it.

Députée au Parlement des Pays- Bas, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, d'origine somalienne, a récupéré, mardi 27 juin, sa nationalité et son passeport néerlandais. Elle en était privée, depuis le 15 mai, par décision de la ministre de l'immigration et de l'intégration, Rita Verdonk, pourtant membre de la même formation politique - le VVD, Parti populaire pour la liberté et la démocratie (libéral). Mme Verdonk, qui a une réputation de femme à poigne, avait pris cette mesure radicale après la diffusion d'un reportage dans lequel Mme Hirsi Ali était accusée d'avoir menti sur son nom et sa date de naissance lorsqu'elle avait formulé sa demande d'asile, en 1992.

Is it part of your application process

mediaprince Lewis the IV th during some quality time @ $2500 per aired minute CBC with Miss Hirsi Ali about "her latest incarnation" at the presumed neocon thinktank AEI for public policy;

Is there a school where they teach you these American clichés? Is it part of your application process that you have to… I'm sorry… I'm so upset that I'm losing my guards here. I can't believe you just said that.

Private kindergarten educated Avi is run off the 4 th generation of Uber-class socialists clique and is state employed at the taxpayer-financed Canadian TV.

At Moonbattery Ayaan Hirsi Ali Steps on bug it reads "so upset that I'm losing my cards here". This could be guards. Not cards. The frence "en garde" better fits.

They did some recounting of the votes but Lewis said

Tell that to the people who believe there have been a couple of stolen elections. That the democracy is completely broken.

After Hirsi's

It's the best democracy in the world. It's the best place to be.

Avi Lewis uttered the allready stated above;

Is there a school where they teach you these American clichés? Is it part of your application process that you have to… I'm sorry… I'm so upset that I'm losing my cards here. I can't believe you just said that.

And got said he has not sense of liberty by Ayaan Hirsi Ali;

I've lived in countries that had no democracy, that had no Founding Fathers […] so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.

With iframe from canadiancoalition A midget interviews a giant:Avi Lewis' infantile attack on Hirsi Ali in case CBC actually has any shame, rare among those who live off the taxpayer, and removes this archetypical CBC interview from their website, captured .



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