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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (4402)	2/3/2007 9:50:07 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Dangerous odyssey of Muslim Voltaire The Australian ^ \| February 03, 2007 \| Rebecca Weisser theaustralian.news.com.au Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a rare public example of moral courage for the West, writes Rebecca Weisser THE threat to kill Ayaan Hirsi Ali was staked with a dagger into the chest of Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh who had been shot as he rode his bike along an Amsterdam street in broad daylight. Van Gogh's last words to his assassin read like an epitaph for the Western enlightenment. "Can't we talk about this?" he reasoned. The response was immediate and final. Mohammed Bouyeri slit Van Gogh's throat and silenced him forever. That Hirsi Ali has continued to talk in the face of this barbarity is just one measure of the extraordinary physical and moral courage of this delicate, 38-year-old Somali-born woman. What is more unexpected is that such a figure - a black, Muslim woman, a refugee from a forced marriage, a survivor of female genital mutilation and of a bloody civil war, a voice for the voiceless and most oppressed of the oppressed - should be viewed with suspicion by some on the progressive Left and with outright condemnation by others. Hirsi Ali has been prepared to attack ideas and people that the Left has treated as sacrosanct: Islam as a religion, Muslim men (as the oppressors of Muslim women), and multiculturalism and its postmodern handmaiden, moral equivalence, which postulates that all cultures and all religions are equally deserving of respect, support and government funding. For Hirsi Ali, Islam in its current incarnation is not just different from Judeo-Christian culture, it is fundamentally incompatible with the enlightenment values that underpin Western prosperity. ... Islam, with its emphasis on passive submission to the will of Allah and finding fulfillment in the hereafter rather than on earth, discourages the work ethic that is the motor for economically successful societies. (Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ....