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 Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - Bidding a - final? - farewell to ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's press conference on 16 May, in which she announced her departure - permanent or otherwise - from the Netherlands, was certainly impressive and 100 percent reflective of her style.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been and is, of course, totally right in wanting to raise the issue of the oppression of women across the globe, and particularly within the world's Muslim communities from which she herself has come.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali continually creates the impression that the suppression of women in Islamic countries is closely tied to the very nature of Islam itself.
www.radionetherlands.nl /currentaffairs/060517mc   (878 words)

  
 Hirsi Ali: Freedom of Education Hinders Integration | The Brussels Journal
Hirsi Ali recently finished the script for a sequel to Submission, in which she criticises the oppression of homosexuals in Muslim societies.
Hirsi Ali’s demand that religious schools be abolished in the Netherlands has caused a row within her own Liberal Party (VVD), especially after she attacked Hans Wiegel, a former leader of the party and one of the VVD’s most prominent members.
Hirsi Ali became known worldwide as a paragon of the successful immigrant: bright, loquacious, a modern woman readily assimilated into Western society, and aware of the necessity to adopt the values of the nation that she has made home.
www.brusselsjournal.com /node/558   (2508 words)

  
 Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Larvatus Prodeo
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician and outspoken critic of Islam, said on Tuesday she was leaving parliament and the Netherlands after hearing she may be stripped of her citizenship for lying to win asylum.
Hirsi Ali was planning a shift to the US in 2007 anyway, presumably because she was sick of having six bodyguards in tow.
Hirsi Ali has been plain about it: it was the court case a few weeks ago that saw her forced from her home that precipitated the decision to leave the Netherlands.
larvatusprodeo.net /2006/05/17/ayaan-hirsi-ali   (2554 words)

  
 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hirsi Ali is a proponent of free speech.
Although publicly Hirsi Ali always supported the policy of VVD minister Rita Verdonk regarding limited immigration, privately she was not supportive, as she explained in a recent interview for Opzij.
"'Ik was een linkse vrouw in een rechtse partij'; Ayaan Hirsi Ali kijkt terug en vooruit", Opzij, 2006-07-01.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali   (6205 words)

  
 DILACERATOR: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Archives
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's stated aim is to liberate Muslim women living in the Netherlands who are currently living under the fairly repressive conditions.
In a somewhat astoudning development, Ayaan Hirsi Ali today annouced she was switching political allegiance from the left-of-center Labor Party (PvdA) to the right-of-center Liberals of the VVD.
Hirsi Ali is now in hiding after receiving death threats for fundamentalist Muslims for daring the suggest that Muslim women have rights too and should be treated with respect.
qsi.cc /blog/archives/cat_ayaan_hirsi_ali.html   (3672 words)

  
 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Wikipedia
Toen Ayaan vijf jaar oud was, heeft haar grootmoeder haar toch laten besnijden.
Hirsi Ali kwam in 2002 in het nieuws door haar felle kritiek op bepaalde elementen in de islamitische cultuur, en door haar overstap van de PvdA naar de VVD, waar ze op de kandidatenlijst voor de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen kwam.
Wikiquote heeft een collectie citaten gerelateerd aan Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali   (3244 words)

  
 Race Matters - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
MSTERDAM — Ayaan Hirsi Ali had done well in the 10 years since she arrived in the Netherlands as a young refugee from Somalia and, until a few months ago, she lived a quiet life in her adopted land.
Hirsi Ali agrees that the criticism is so intense in part because she is a woman.
Hirsi Ali have given more prominence to her ideas, which have now become the subject of intense debate among Dutch policy makers.
www.racematters.org /ayaanhirsiali.htm   (1182 words)

  
 Jihad Watch: Jihad against Hirsi Ali
Hirsi Ali said she was forced to marry a stranger but her ex-husband said they had been in love and spent the week together after the wedding.
All I know is that Hirsi Ali speaks in terms that are recognizable to Muslims, that she claims she is Muslim from time to time, and that her mindset and active orientation towards Islamic reform appears to fit within the wider context of Islamic struggle, which you know oh-so-affectionately as "jihad".
Ayaan was considered a firebrand, and these ‘revelations’ are now being used by the multiculturalists and politicians with all kinds of objectives (for instance: to hurt the liberal party that is now in a huge upswing in the polls) in order to silence her, hurt her reputation, kill her character.
www.jihadwatch.org /archives/011411.php   (4409 words)

  
 Expelling Ayaan Hirsi Ali [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes
As threats against Hirsi Ali mounted, she (and her colleague Geert Wilders) lived variously in army barracks, jail cells, other state installations and the homes of friends and supporters.
Hirsi Ali, the court ruled that the "more than negligibly small risk" of a terrorist attack violated the European Convention on Human Rights.
Hirsi Ali another shelter would be "unquestionably hard," it nonetheless ordered her to move out within four months.
www.danielpipes.org /blog/618   (619 words)

  
 SPIEGEL Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam' - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch politician forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, responds to the Danish cartoon scandal, arguing that if Europe doesn't stand up to extremists, a culture of self-censorship of criticism of Islam that pervades in Holland will spread in Europe.
Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia where she experienced the oppression of Muslim women first hand.
Hirsi Ali: The doctrine stating that the faith is inalterable because the Koran was dictated by God must be replaced.
www.spiegel.de /international/spiegel/0,1518,399263,00.html   (1546 words)

  
 TCS Daily - Meet Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It was the criticism by the late Pim Fortuyn (the Dutch politician who was killed by an animal rights activists) of the impact of Islam on Dutch society which sharpened her awareness of the threat of Muslim radicalism.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is especially critical of the lack of tolerance for dissenting opinions among Muslims, as well as their oppression of women.
According to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the emotions incited by her statements, especially among radical Muslims, underscores the state of the Islam.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=011204A   (735 words)

  
 Ayaan Hirsi Ali en de strijd tegen de radicale islam: 16-5: Press release Hirsi Ali
Maar ik vind dat Ayaan niet verdiend te blijven omdat zij in de 2de kamer zit en een lid is van de VVD zo iemand hoort niet te liegen wij vertrouwen haar juist.
Ayaan heeft niets bereikt alleen maar agenda punten op tafel gebracht en zo is het ook gebleven niets heeft ze waargemaakt alleen maar praatjes.
Ik zal je een geheimpje vertellen: Ayaan heeft minsten 12 mannen getrouwd, en heeft 10 kinderen achtergelaten in Kenia, is afgereisd met haar laatste vent (een marktkoopman) naar de Côte d'Azur waar zij in luxe leefden van de alimentatie die Ayaan ontving uit eerdere huwelijken.
ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl /ayaanhirsiali/2006/05/165_press_relea.html   (7419 words)

  
 Miss Kelly : Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "I Really Wonder What You Are Doing Here at Harvard"
Hirsi Ali’s appearance at Harvard's JFK School of Government today triggered the necessary media attention and that started earlier today with a Michelle Malkin vlog, honoring the group of brave women that are challenging radical Islam.
Two reports from Hirsi Ali's talk at the Harvard JFK School of Government this afternoon: Ms Kelly and Michael S. The format and content of her presentation are similar to what she did at the PEN Festival.
Aayan Hirsi Ali (born 13 November 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Dutch human rights leader, feminist, and a member of the Dutch Parliament for the liberal party.
misskelly.typepad.com /miss_kelly_/2006/05/ayaan_hirsi_ali_1.html   (2242 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Profile: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ms Hirsi Ali had admitted the falsifications in several media interviews since 2002 and also informed her party, the liberal-conservative VVD, before standing for parliament in 2003.
The MP has previously explained not giving her real name, Ayaan Hirsi Magan, and saying she was born in 1967, not 1969, because she was afraid her family would find her.
Speaking to the BBC, Ms Hirsi Ali said that despite having lived in many countries, it was "extremely important" to her to be a Dutch citizen.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4985636.stm   (802 words)

  
 Cox & Forkum: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali praised newspapers in many countries which have printed the cartoons, considered blasphemous by many Muslims, but said others had held back for fear of criticising what she called "intolerant aspects of Islam".
Hirsi Ali, who was born in Somalia and brought up as a Muslim, has received frequent death threats for her criticism of Islam, including in a controversial film called "Submission" for which she wrote the script.
Its director Theo van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death by a Dutch-born Islamist militant in 2004, and a note threatening Hirsi Ali was pinned to his chest with a knife.
www.coxandforkum.com /archives/000782.html   (454 words)

  
 Peaktalk - HIRSI ALI'S FALL
Ayaan’s lies will now be the subject of a formal investigation by Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, who as it happens is also part of the VVD and is in the middle of hotly contested leadership struggle (to be concluded later this month) in which she faces a more moderate and centrist candidate.
Hirsi Ali has served her purpose by formulating a number of highly controversial positions, something that no one previously dared saying, and now that the word is out it is up to others to take the message forward.
Intelligent as she is, Hirsi Ali must have been keenly aware that she was bound to get into real trouble and by that I do not mean a jihadist ready to kill her.
www.peaktalk.com /archives/002210.php   (807 words)

  
 Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 13 November 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Dutch human rights leader, feminist, and a member of the Dutch Parliament for the liberal party.
In 2005 Ms Hirsi Ali was chosen among the world’s 100 most influential people of Time Magazine and Reader’s Digest voted her ‘European of the Year 2006’.
Ali makes about the regressive nature of the teaching in fundamental Islam is revealing; I had no idea it was that extreme or that such regressive practices were explicitly sanctioned.
www.deeshaa.org /2006/05/14/ayaan-hirsi-ali   (1014 words)

  
 The 2005 TIME 100: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hirsi Ali used the woman's body as a canvas on which to display troubling verses from the Koran.
On it, he pinned a letter to Hirsi Ali, warning her that she is next.
In parliament, Hirsi Ali is pushing to outlaw honor crimes—customs that can't be pinned on the Koran but thrive amid the silence of Muslim leaders.
www.time.com /time/subscriber/2005/time100/leaders/100ali.html   (355 words)

  
 'Aqoul: Odd - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: Ali K at May 17, 2006 12:27 AM She has to apply for asylum, and the adjudicator has to consider her application to be credible.
Ayaan always claimed that she was in Somalia during the civil wars and that her mother pushed het to go to an orthodox moslimschool in Kenia.
Hirsi Ali is a hero in my world, because she opposes homophobes and misogynists no matter what the skin colour or the religion.
aqoul.com /archives/2006/05/odd.php   (5414 words)

  
 Holland's latest insult to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Dutch courts have already required her to vacate her home as a result of her neighbors' petition to have her evicted, and she was on the verge of resigning her seat in the Dutch parliament and of requesting the right of residence in the United States.
Unlike Joseph K, Hirsi Ali is very well aware of the evidence against her; indeed, she is the author of it.
Hirsi Ali calls for a pluralist democracy where all opinion is protected but where the law does not—in the name of some pseudo-tolerance—permit genital mutilation, "honor" killing, and forced marriage.
www.slate.com /id/2142147   (1424 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
She further alleged that the Prophet (peace be upon him) was against the freedom of women, since, she claimed, he ordered them not to leave their houses, wear the veil and denied them the right to work and inheritance, not to mention a number of other calumnies mouthed frequently by some venomous orientalists.
Ayaan was catapulted into the limelight for her incessant verbal assault against Islam, making use of the anti-Muslim seismic waves stirred by the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Ali Juma‘ah, professor of Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, states that such insults against the Prophet stress his high status and noble character.
www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-01/27/article09.shtml   (835 words)

  
 PEN American Center - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia on November 13, 1969.
Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, was an opponent of Siyad Barre, the socialist president of Somalia, and her family was forced to flee the country.
Ali on the murder of Theo van Gogh.
pen.org /page.php/prmID/1167   (155 words)

  
 Statement by Ayaan Hirsi Ali : Religion News Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The following is a statement made by Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali upon her resignation from the House of Representatives.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali authored the film Dutch movie director Theo van Gogh was murdered for
I am Ayaan, the daughter of Hirsi, who is the son of a man who took the name of Magan.
www.religionnewsblog.com /14663/statement-by-ayaan-hirsi-ali   (2064 words)

  
 NPR : 'The Caged Virgin': A Call for Change in Islam
Dutch author and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, pictured here talking to reporters in February 2006, scolded European leaders for appeasing radical Muslims rather than demanding greater equality for women.
Day to Day, May 4, 2006 ·; Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a native of Somalia who emigrated to The Netherlands in the early 1990s, is no stranger to controversy among her fellow Muslims.
Ali calls her new collection of essays, The Caged Virgin, an "Emancipation Proclamation" for women and Islam.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5382547   (3408 words)

  
 RealClearPolitics - Articles - Speaking Back to Islamists
WASHINGTON -- While her security contingent waits outside the Georgetown restaurant, Ayaan Hirsi Ali orders what the menu calls "raw steak tartare.'' Amused by the redundancy, she speculates that it is intended to immunize the restaurant against lawyers, should a customer be discommoded by that entree.
Born 36 years ago in Somalia, Hirsi Ali has lived in Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands, where she settled in 1992 after she deplaned in Frankfurt, supposedly en route to Canada for a marriage, arranged by her father, to a cousin.
But the recoil of many Dutch people from Hirsi Ali suggests that the tolerance about which Holland preens is a compound of intellectual sloth and moral timidity.
www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2006/09/meet_ayaan_hirsi_ali.html   (658 words)

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