This woman is ahead of her time and she knows what she is speaking about. Hopefully the ignorant people in the world will take heed of what she speaks.
That Islam is a religion of peace has been debunked, tell me something I don't know. Everyone that leaves Islam needs bodyguards if they can afford it. That alone says it all.
And Christian violence too, we don't want another holocaust, IRA, crusades, spanish inquisition, drones attack on Pakistani villages, invasion on Iraq & afganistan for political gain and oil money etc
Elena Zaaba We don't want or need ANY religious violence. Having said that, let's face facts; the VAST majority of current religiously motivated violence is done by Muslims. If Catholics can admit they have issues they need to address (even the Pope himself has spoken about child sexual abuse by clergy) without giving up their core beliefs, I don't see why Muslims can't as well. Instead, too many cry about "Islamophobia" and confuse Islam with Islamism. To be fair, non-Muslims as well, need to make the distinction so as to help the moderate Muslims deal with these issues without being defensive about it. After all, it's only natural to defend one's religion when it seems to be under attack.
I blame the media. The media is feeding you with things that you wanna see and hear. Tell me which one you think is more sensational? A father who killed his family or an alleged terrorist attack in a mall? Which one will create more hoohaah in the society?
" If you are only 1/5 of the world's population but you are responsible more than 2/3 of the violence in the entire world and most of that violence is propagated in the name of Islamic theology and and Allah is invoked throughout, Mohammed is invoked throughout, you hear Jihad - Then there comes a time when we have to stop being politically correct. And especially those of us who were born into Islam come out and say: "There is something wrong with the moral system we grew up with." " ^This sums it up nicely.
+Walter Michel -Ayaan's lying have been exposed. Ayaan Hirsi Ali real name Ayaan Hirsi Magaan is a liar who left Somalia when she was 7 year old and never went back to somalia since.Her family never threaten her life she was in contact with her family even in Netherland she also met her ex husband in Netherland. She knows nothing about Somali culture. She is lying about Islam & Somali culture to gain fame & money by writing books, films, tv talks & lectures with full of lies & fiction stories. That's your hero idol....!!
+brettc2727 if prophet Mohamed historically accepted could not read or write then it is not for a person with reasonable intellect to believe that he stole from bible and torah . Also reflects on your ignorance and lack of reading as there is quite a difference between torah/bible and quran ( some similarities as all believe in god i.e. Allah in Arabic.
Fatima: Your religion has filled your soul with hate and not with peace as it claims and you do nothing to prove her wrong because you can not disclaim the truth of which she speaks.
The fact that she has to have bodyguards doesn't say anything about Islam, but more about her paranoia. Muslims, there are many, who do not even know of this woman, many that do, could not care less about how many time slots she gets on this or that news network to bash their faith, and there are others who do care but certainly do not want to kill her or themselves to prove their faith is real, and then there is that small minority of people, who whether they are religious or not, they are fanatics and their fanaticism leads them towards a path of violence. Islam was never about killing anymore than being a Christian was ever about burning crosses or enslaving whole continents; but SHIT does happen. I cannot reject Ali's experiences as a Somalian, Muslim woman, but her experience does not give her the final say or the final judgment in the lives and the experiences of billions of other men, women and children. I mean, who does she think she is, Allah?
w jones no, it's not paranoia, she has received death threats... after a film she participated in making about the plight of the abuse of women in Islam, her film partner was murdered and, if i remember correctly her death threat was thrust into his chest with a knife.... who do they think they were, Allah?even in her debate with other Muslims, the defenders of Islam as a Religion of Peace admitted that people cannot speak out about injustices by those who practice Islam because they would be killed... who do they think they are, Allah? they totally lost the debate... i think you are living in complete denial... the fanatacism is not just a select few... it is the majority and enough to keep everyone involved in Islam in its prescribed submissive, combative state... have you seen the interviews with the sisters and brothers who agree that their parents were right to murder their sisters because they were not behaving like good Muslims? Muslims are the easiest people in the world to incite into violence... wake up and smell the coffee
w jones You should do a little research on her. Sometimes paranoia is only knowing the truth. As OfftoShambala mentioned her colleague was publicly executed and a knife with a death threat directed towards her was left sticking out of his chest. There is a growing issue that needs to be addressed and self-denial is not the solution. Only a candid and sincere approach has any hope of working.
Ayaan is correct. Don't give up your critical thinking for anything. The USA is at quite a disadvantage as so may of its people are living in religious la-la-land. It makes it hard for the USA to set a proper example.
RATIONALMIND001 Unlike our European counterparts (who have managed to alienate their Muslim immigrants and thereby jeopardize their citizens' safety), we Americans have successfully integrated and assimilated our Muslim immigrants. 🤔 Yet we are somehow at a disadvantage?
She nailed it: keep the fucking clerics, and I mean all of the clerics, not just islamic ones, away from children, and in a generation you might see some serious changes in islam.
Well, it's kind of important to recognize you're not exactly dealing with Muslims as a whole. Those who seem to be at the forefront of violence, etc.., are salafists, mainly wahabis. To that end, I'd deny Saudi Arabia and rest of the Gulf monarchies to open madrasas and mosques in the west, since it's those religious schools and mosques that spawned almost all of the foreign jihadists in Syria, or indeed elsewhere in the world, and would indeed as she said, point people who would oppose this to the fact that if they want to live under sharia, or study this particular and problematic form of Islam, they can go and do so in the countries that finance it. I wouldn't deny the same right to the Oman for example, or any other Muslim countries that strive for advancement and integration into a modern society. Long story short, I'd prevent countries that sponsor terrorism to open religious institutions in my country, and would carefully watch where the money to build and maintain religious institutions comes from.
Well, the way I imagine it would be, you'd have a law that requires you to provide a detailed financing report when you're trying to open something like a religious school or a mosque. I didn't give it much thought before today, and if I'm honest I did most of that thinking in the last 30 minutes, and I'm dead tired since it's very late here right now. Anyway, i'm off to sleep, have a good day.
+ iga27 - You also have nailed it. Yes keep all clerics away from children !! The religious would fight it tooth and claw because they know well if you approached any teenager with the fairy stories with which they indoctrinate the very young they would be laughed to scorn !!
She has marketed this video well. But she slanders Muhammad and the Quran. So yes kill the clerics of you want to. wrong is wrong. But leave Mohammed out of it.
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This woman is a marvel! I have read her books & listened to her speak many times, & she is one of the clearest, most honest & perceptive thinkers around. She needs to be heard in Germany, Sweden & all the EU countries being destroyed by Islam. Some people will never listen to this kind of truth because they have allowed their very identity to become dependent on their self-image as heroic defenders of that which they do not understand at all: Islam. But many more--who have the kind of critical thinking skills Ayaan speaks of (yes!!)--will contemplate her words at more length & see confirmation of her analysis all around them. I only hope her security people are the best & most loyal around, & will protect her from the many psychos who want to see her dead. Really, she should be appointed as a consultant & advisor to Western governments on the topic; she knows so much more, & more authentically, than any of the talking heads now taking up space in these gov'ts.
+Denis Dražetič No, she is not safe in Europe. Why did she move to the US? Safety!There is a price on her head. The peaceful Muslims will do their best to cut her pretty head off if they get near her.
+Denis Dražetič yes, its 100% true...muslims WANT HER DEAD and despite the amazing work she does with the innocent victims of islam, they can't cope with her kNOWING islam, and are so childishly insecure that she dares to speak out
It must be achingly frustrating for this person, having escaped from the effects of this dreadful and evil 'religion', to have to explain her survival actions, and her valuable warnings, to naive journalists, so cowardly and politically correct, that they can no longer hold a balanced discussion.
i think the first statement points at what is wrong: 'so you have turned you back to Islam, and very publicly so, and payed the price. you have to travel with bodyguards'
Ayan's voice is that of rational reasoning. Those who disagree with her should think, if they are capable of that, what it means to live under Islam. It may satisfy those with puny brains, but the world would suffer horribly.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is more than beautiful, she is intelligent and courageous. Intelligent, she can explain the injustice of Islam without insulting anyone but simply putting into the table facts. Courageous, knowing that Islam kills the people who leave Islam, she decides to leave Islam and live as a free woman and not as a slave.
The verses in sura 9 abrogated all peaceful verses. Fight those that do not believe in allah or the last day. These verses order muslims to fight innocent people who do not believe in allah.
Muslims want to teach, not to learn from others. They think they already know all there is to know, they think they don't need to learn more. Even though right now Muslims have nothing to offer to others, they still persist in this delusion.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on causing offence to Islam ? ...Exellent! :-) She is a true beauty in and out, her intelligence outstanding and a Hero to all of us! it is wonderful to see so much honer, courage and truth all in one person!
BRAVO TO AYAAN HIRSI ALI, AT LEAST SHE LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THE WEST LIKE, QUESTION EVERYTHING WEATHER IT BE RELIGION, POLITIC'S HISTORY ANYTHING, NEVER EVER JUST STRAIGHT UP BELIEVE IN JUST ANYTHING WITH OUT INVESTIGATING IT AND RESEARCHING IT...SHE USE TO BE A MUSLIM AND TOOK SOME OF THE GOOD WESTERN VALUES TO AND APPLIED IT TO HER EVERYDAY LIVING......
I became good with a couple from an Islamic country after a month in Australia I asked her what do you like the most in Australia her answer was we can asked so many question.
Just watched a vid by a Somali spouting hatred against Ayaan. Only managed 2 mins. So scary! As an ex-catholic atheist, who can spk my mind without repercussions, I so admire her bravery, not just for leaving Islam, but for giving us s window into this horrible world. Thank you Ayaan. What a woman!
4:29 I think the interviewer asks a very good question: how do we convince people that the principles of the Enlightenment are a good idea? This is worth asking because as we speak we have large numbers of American rightists who are rejecting Enlightenment principles. We need to figure out how to educate people in these matters not just in Muslim countries, but in some of our own countries.
"how do we convince people that the principles of the Enlightenment are a good idea?" My thinking is the truly "set in their ways" types you have no hope of reaching it's like arguing with a truly convinced 911 truther or holocaust denier. It's demonstrating to the mainstream that people like creationists for example are just as irrational as the 911 truther or the holocaust denier and from the point of view of a skeptic these individuals are barely distinguishable (aside from the obvious fact that truthers and holocaust deniers aren't invited on CNN to discuss the issue as though there was a real controversy.). "We need to figure out how to educate people in these matters not just in Muslim countries, but in some of our own countries." I'm a little more concerned with the Muslims because nobody is in permanent hiding right now because they said the wrong thing about Christianity. Also too I live in Canada so the Christian conservatives are less of an issue for me maybe I'd feel differently if say like Aron Ra I lived in Texas or something.
SockbatReplicaOne _My thinking is the truly "set in their ways" types you have no hope of reaching it's like arguing with a truly convinced 911 truther or holocaust denier._ This is simply false. The majority of atheists are not people like me who were raised without religion, but people who were indoctrinated into a religion from childhood and left of their own accord. Just because someone doesn't jump up and shout "Ah ha! You are right and I've been wrong all these years! I shall now immediately abandon religion!" in the course of a single conversation, do not assume that conversations like this have no effect. I've read scores of deconversion stories, and in most cases the deconversion process takes months, years, or even decades to unfold. Most people can't just flip a switch and turn off decades of emotionally-charged brainwashing. _ I'm a little more concerned with the Muslims because nobody is in permanent hiding right now because they said the wrong thing about Christianity._ Muslims aren't a significant voting bloc in this country, and in the few localities in which they are a significant voting bloc, they generally elect decent candidates. American rightists on the other hand have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into abandoning pretty much everything this country was supposed to stand for. The rightists got us into an unnecessary war that even by the most conservative estimates resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Even the most fevered Islamist could never achieve a body count like that in his wildest fantasies. American rightists are just as unapologetic about the civilians they've killed as radical Islamists are.
Paul T Sjordal "This is simply false. The majority of atheists are not people like me who were raised without religion, but people who were indoctrinated into a religion from childhood and left of their own accord." So then doesn't that answer your initial question of what do we do with the people who believe that Jesus is going to come back in their lifetime? Answer the same thing we have been doing. "Even the most fevered Islamist could never achieve a body count like that in his wildest fantasies." Well Muslims don't have the military capabilities of the United States and much of the killing in Iraq was and still is Muslim on Muslim. They even attack the funerals of their victims. So while civilian casualties caused by the west are incidental the civilian deaths caused by Jihadists are deliberate. Also it still doesn't change the fact that the critics of Christianity don't wind up like Salman Rushdie or Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
SockbatReplicaOne _So then doesn't that answer your initial question of what do we do with the people who believe that Jesus is going to come back in their lifetime? Answer the same thing we have been doing._ That's not what I'm saying at all. You have claimed that it is impossible to persuade such people, but if that were true, most of those who are atheist today would not be atheists. Most atheists are atheists because they deconverted from religion, which is something you just implied ought to be impossible.
***** My mother is a born again Christian and when I as a kid there were certain video games she didn't want me playing if they involved things like magic. She was the kind that believed things like Dungeons and Dragons for example was satanic and all that horseshit. Luckily I was raised by my grandparents(my parents were divorced when I was still a baby and my dad and stepmom could only afford to raise my sister and mom couldn't afford to raise either one of us) and my grandparents while they believed in God were pretty much secular they never went to church, they didn't say grace when we ate, God and religion was never even discussed. It was only when I went to visit I mother that I really got exposed to this stuff.
The fact that Islamic authorities have not denounced the current world jihad makes it clear that it is not entitled to claim offence over anything. The actions of Muslims, endorsed by the leaders of the faith make the Islamic faith the ideology that we find offensive. I applaud this woman for taking a stand against the tyranny displayed by her rejected faith.
In the Islamic heartland Saudi,The houses have compound walls 10 feet high signifying, mutual distrust, suspicion, fear among neighbors. This fruit of Islam.
Prophet had absolute right on muslim women. He married six years old. Pervert! So check with ur parent, if anyone from ur family was abused by him.However, its not going to matter much for muslims as they do marry their first cousins.
What basic common sense this lady talks. She is spot on! I can only hope our government (Britain) listen's to her and the UN.Keep up the great work you are doing Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
The moderator implies that she got what she deserved as far as the backlash to her comments, she thereby makes the case for the violence as an acceptable response. Sad.
what she did she did it out of despair to escape People like you! Who are you to point your finger at her? what moral high ground do you think you got? Allah Moral? Muhammed? She has more "Balls" than you will ever have in this life and the next!
Don't apologise to me, apologise to Allah. 'How can you disbelieve in Allah when you were lifeless and He brought you to life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you [back] to life, and then to Him you will be returned'. (Quran 2:28-29)
+Peter Kouswa Did McVeigh shout Jesus as he detonated the bombs? Did he claim to have done it in obedience to some verse in the bible? Was he known to have been attending some Christian church where the pastor espouses violence and ask followers to kill in order to please Jesus? You are utterly devoid of subsyancev
Islam is both a religion and a culture. I totally reject the religion and most aspects of the culture, but we have to acknowledge that Christianity went through a dark period for many centuries. It is most important to separate religion from government and allow freedom of expression and criticism. This has not yet become the rule with Islam.
No, I think I will 1) There are very clear reasons she blames Islam. I have now read both Ifidel and Nomad (her books) which lay them out 2) I have read both the Bible and the Qur'an. They are indeed both violent, and have justified many conflicts. It is simply that currently Islam in general is more serious about these conflicts 3) I have Muslim friends too, not many, but the ones I have I owe a lot to. However I reserve the right to criticize their beliefs, just as I do my Christian friends.
Hello Celina, Who put Jesus on the cross? I´m a white european, grew up in Denmark, in a non religious environment. We do have a state church and our society, luckily, stems from a rather open minded sort of christianety - Lutheranian. And i think that the reason for us having such a.... reasonably, well working system of freedom of speech and human right can be traced back to the lack of religion.
Is this lady just GREAT! You really can NOT argue with a single thing she says. Shes right every time. She's right, because she kicks PC out the window and tells it like it is. I mean, she really, really is such an intelligent lady and I cant speak highly enough of her! Tc Ayaan!
“I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind… I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission'. Gandhi
Highly admire Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read her books - enlightening on what muslim women endure. She is an ex-muslim, but very supportive of Christian values in the Western World.
She is a brave, wonderful charming woman. Let's hear her message because that is the true. Why to be politically correct to such offensive religion. I'm not an infidel but a human being. Hey Islam people, believe in whatever you want, that is your right, and be noticed none will take it off me neither. I dont like you people stoning others to death, FYS!
please don't generalize people I'm atheist, and i don't consider all Sunnis as bad people i've met some sunnis, and thankfully, they do not do bad things like what some of the sunnis that we both refer to it is islam which is bad and primitive it is islam which teaches some of these people to do bad things if we remove islam, then we can have an honest discussion about morality that is embraced in democratic progressive societies
Oh yes, quite right...she only gets daily threats on her life by gangs of thugs for the imaginary 'crime' of apostasy. Clearly she doesn't know nearly as much about Islam as you do. Well done for pointing out how wrong she is for complaining about being a target for murder which is legitimized by holy texts. You are a truly enlightened individual.
I'm am not lying. I have read the Quran. I had a roommate who was a muslim I met muslims in my country, and fortunately they don't behave violently, since they are the minority Once you go to a muslim-majority country, you will exactly know how they behave, even to minor-islamic sects (shias, ahmadiyyas) and especially to non-muslims just read the news in Pakistan and Iraq, where shias and christians get killed just listen to the preachings of al-qaradawi and other islamic scholars
The voice of reason. Let us all get on board with that, so we can discuss the ideas inherent in Islam that don't bring peaceful cooperation. Just as ideas in other "religions" (and Islam is a political system more than a religion).
Islam wants you to "surrender" yourself to an invisible omnipotent bearded old man in the sky and Christianity says "the lord is my shepherd" (which is the same as surrendering)... why anyone would want to be a slave is beyond me xD
Whatever you think about the bible, the topic here is about the negative teachings in the Islamic faith, so dont change the subject please. You must address that which is questionable whatever faith you follow so that you are not deceived. You must never follow blindly. You must address the negative things she has mentioned full stop
Thank you very much "MrMofo4eva" for proving my point to the world of how intolerant some muslims can be of others opinions, without resorting to antagonizing and many times life threating responses. You're more upset about what I've said, rather than being upset with it ACTUALLY happening to women in the name of Allah.
This woman is beautiful, elegant and smart I hope she is happy wherever she is and I hope God bless her. We need more brave women like her denouncing everything about shittyislam.🌻.
Very good. I like your syntax - also, you pull no punches. How refreshing. BTW, if men get 72 virgins when they die, what do women get? A set of cookware?
what a wonderful young lady she is such a treasure and incredibly brave she speaks the truth about Islam I hope she stays safe we need her to keep speaking up
She nailed it! So, so true. "If you want sharia law go to countries where it applies...!" EXACTLY!
This woman is ahead of her time and she knows what she is speaking about. Hopefully the ignorant people in the world will take heed of what she speaks.
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***** You only thinks she knows because YOU don't know. It's called 'The blind following the blind'.
@@allrash92 no u silly! He knows cause she knows! Now 4 years later let's call it "we told u so". How come YOU don't know?
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Mullas will never let Muslims reform
That woman deserves respect and a huge thanks for explaining (rationally) the workings of islam.
That Islam is a religion of peace has been debunked, tell me something I don't know. Everyone that leaves Islam needs bodyguards if they can afford it. That alone says it all.
Again dictator ship. Do this do that. My way or the highway.
I love this woman. We need more ex-Islamic people to speak up against Islamic violence.
I agree. She's a very brave woman.
And Christian violence too, we don't want another holocaust, IRA, crusades, spanish inquisition, drones attack on Pakistani villages, invasion on Iraq & afganistan for political gain and oil money etc
Elena Zaaba
We don't want or need ANY religious violence. Having said that, let's face facts; the VAST majority of current religiously motivated violence is done by Muslims. If Catholics can admit they have issues they need to address (even the Pope himself has spoken about child sexual abuse by clergy) without giving up their core beliefs, I don't see why Muslims can't as well. Instead, too many cry about "Islamophobia" and confuse Islam with Islamism. To be fair, non-Muslims as well, need to make the distinction so as to help the moderate Muslims deal with these issues without being defensive about it. After all, it's only natural to defend one's religion when it seems to be under attack.
I blame the media. The media is feeding you with things that you wanna see and hear. Tell me which one you think is more sensational? A father who killed his family or an alleged terrorist attack in a mall? Which one will create more hoohaah in the society?
Elena Zaaba
I'm not sure what your point is. Elena.
" If you are only 1/5 of the world's population but you are responsible more than 2/3 of the violence in the entire world and most of that violence is propagated in the name of Islamic theology and and Allah is invoked throughout, Mohammed is invoked throughout, you hear Jihad - Then there comes a time when we have to stop being politically correct. And especially those of us who were born into Islam come out and say: "There is something wrong with the moral system we grew up with." "
^This sums it up nicely.
Ayaan is a treasure! I have read all of her books, listened to many of her presentations.
+Walter Michel -Ayaan's lying have been exposed. Ayaan Hirsi Ali real name Ayaan Hirsi Magaan is a liar who left Somalia when she was 7 year old and never went back to somalia since.Her family never threaten her life she was in contact with her family even in Netherland she also met her ex husband in Netherland. She knows nothing about Somali culture. She is lying about Islam & Somali culture to gain fame & money by writing books, films, tv talks & lectures with full of lies & fiction stories. That's your hero idol....!!
+MrRedbleu Islam is collapsing with great noise.
+brettc2727 if prophet Mohamed historically accepted could not read or write then it is not for a person with reasonable intellect to believe that he stole from bible and torah . Also reflects on your ignorance and lack of reading as there is quite a difference between torah/bible and quran ( some similarities as all believe in god i.e. Allah in Arabic.
+damien sos mohammad was a PEADOPHILE!
MrRedbleu Mohammad was a PEADOPHILE!
She is sooooooooo right.She is voicing my thoughts exactly.
I think in the same way. She is so right.
Religion:cancer from humanity!!!!!
She has more courage than any muslim I have ever met.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a vey brave and intelligent woman. The world needs more women like her.
Yes, the world desperately needs more people like her. Intelligence, bravery keeps evil at bay and keeps the peace.
you got that right! One very smart and courageous woman. I'd vote for her if she tried for chancellor here in crazy old Germany.
she's a bustard man's son.
Fatima: Your religion has filled your soul with hate and not with peace as it claims and you do nothing to prove her wrong because you can not disclaim the truth of which she speaks.
Fatima Aziz -- What absolute rubbish. Your comment is an example of just how sick and medieval your religion is.
I totally agree with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and I admire her brightness and brave.
then I am really interested what are u admiring her for?
To see through the evil of islam.
Ivana Hol
being honest and non-ignorant. Two traits many muslims seem to struggle with.
Kristel Sitz we should have coffee sometime....& I can show u 150 reason why Ayaan is full of shit....how about it???
Justin Smith
just one or two would be enough for the start. Would u like to share them?
The fact that she have to have bodyguards speaks alot about islam. No other religious groups reacts this way to someone who leaves their religion.
The fact that she has to have bodyguards doesn't say anything about Islam, but more about her paranoia. Muslims, there are many, who do not even know of this woman, many that do, could not care less about how many time slots she gets on this or that news network to bash their faith, and there are others who do care but certainly do not want to kill her or themselves to prove their faith is real, and then there is that small minority of people, who whether they are religious or not, they are fanatics and their fanaticism leads them towards a path of violence. Islam was never about killing anymore than being a Christian was ever about burning crosses or enslaving whole continents; but SHIT does happen. I cannot reject Ali's experiences as a Somalian, Muslim woman, but her experience does not give her the final say or the final judgment in the lives and the experiences of billions of other men, women and children. I mean, who does she think she is, Allah?
w jones her paranoia??? was theo vangough paranoid?? You would do well not to sacrifice your critical thinking to the god of political correctness,
w jones no, it's not paranoia, she has received death threats... after a film she participated in making about the plight of the abuse of women in Islam, her film partner was murdered and, if i remember correctly her death threat was thrust into his chest with a knife.... who do they think they were, Allah?even in her debate with other Muslims, the defenders of Islam as a Religion of Peace admitted that people cannot speak out about injustices by those who practice Islam because they would be killed... who do they think they are, Allah? they totally lost the debate... i think you are living in complete denial... the fanatacism is not just a select few... it is the majority and enough to keep everyone involved in Islam in its prescribed submissive, combative state... have you seen the interviews with the sisters and brothers who agree that their parents were right to murder their sisters because they were not behaving like good Muslims? Muslims are the easiest people in the world to incite into violence... wake up and smell the coffee
w jones You should do a little research on her. Sometimes paranoia is only knowing the truth. As OfftoShambala mentioned her colleague was publicly executed and a knife with a death threat directed towards her was left sticking out of his chest. There is a growing issue that needs to be addressed and self-denial is not the solution. Only a candid and sincere approach has any hope of working.
w jones You are in denial
Ayaan is an exquisitely graceful admixture of beauty, brain & brawn.
@Cushite Islam is demonic.
Ayaan is correct. Don't give up your critical thinking for anything. The USA is at quite a disadvantage as so may of its people are living in religious la-la-land. It makes it hard for the USA to set a proper example.
RATIONALMIND001 Unlike our European counterparts (who have managed to alienate their Muslim immigrants and thereby jeopardize their citizens' safety), we Americans have successfully integrated and assimilated our Muslim immigrants. 🤔 Yet we are somehow at a disadvantage?
She nailed it: keep the fucking clerics, and I mean all of the clerics, not just islamic ones, away from children, and in a generation you might see some serious changes in islam.
Naturally no, but I don't think that would be the problem.
Well, it's kind of important to recognize you're not exactly dealing with Muslims as a whole.
Those who seem to be at the forefront of violence, etc.., are salafists, mainly wahabis.
To that end, I'd deny Saudi Arabia and rest of the Gulf monarchies to open madrasas and mosques in the west, since it's those religious schools and mosques that spawned almost all of the foreign jihadists in Syria, or indeed elsewhere in the world, and would indeed as she said, point people who would oppose this to the fact that if they want to live under sharia, or study this particular and problematic form of Islam, they can go and do so in the countries that finance it.
I wouldn't deny the same right to the Oman for example, or any other Muslim countries that strive for advancement and integration into a modern society.
Long story short, I'd prevent countries that sponsor terrorism to open religious institutions in my country, and would carefully watch where the money to build and maintain religious institutions comes from.
Well, the way I imagine it would be, you'd have a law that requires you to provide a detailed financing report when you're trying to open something like a religious school or a mosque.
I didn't give it much thought before today, and if I'm honest I did most of that thinking in the last 30 minutes, and I'm dead tired since it's very late here right now.
Anyway, i'm off to sleep, have a good day.
+ iga27 - You also have nailed it. Yes keep all clerics away from children !! The religious would fight it tooth and claw because they know well if you approached any teenager with the fairy stories with which they indoctrinate the very young they would be laughed to scorn !!
She has marketed this video well. But she slanders Muhammad and the Quran. So yes kill the clerics of you want to. wrong is wrong. But leave Mohammed out of it.
This woman is a marvel! I have read her books & listened to her speak many times, & she is one of the clearest, most honest & perceptive thinkers around. She needs to be heard in Germany, Sweden & all the EU countries being destroyed by Islam. Some people will never listen to this kind of truth because they have allowed their very identity to become dependent on their self-image as heroic defenders of that which they do not understand at all: Islam. But many more--who have the kind of critical thinking skills Ayaan speaks of (yes!!)--will contemplate her words at more length & see confirmation of her analysis all around them. I only hope her security people are the best & most loyal around, & will protect her from the many psychos who want to see her dead. Really, she should be appointed as a consultant & advisor to Western governments on the topic; she knows so much more, & more authentically, than any of the talking heads now taking up space in these gov'ts.
+Gloria Dudley i eriously
think we should promote her in someway to europe
+Denis Dražetič No, she is not safe in Europe. Why did she move to the US? Safety!There is a price on her head. The peaceful Muslims will do their best to cut her pretty head off if they get near her.
Martti Suomivuori really???hope you are exagerating if its true it is unexpectable
+Denis Dražetič yes, its 100% true...muslims WANT HER DEAD and despite the amazing work she does with the innocent victims of islam, they can't cope with her kNOWING islam, and are so childishly insecure that she dares to speak out
Glenys Wiseman so she fucking can't speak in a free continent like europe?
I love her last few sentences. I wish David Cameron had the balls to say that.
It must be achingly frustrating for this person, having escaped from the effects of this dreadful and evil 'religion', to have to explain her survival actions, and her valuable warnings, to naive journalists, so cowardly and politically correct, that they can no longer hold a balanced discussion.
The more I listen to Ayaan, the more I am convinced that she is one of the most brilliant and courageous women of this generation!!
An absolute genius
Yes bro absolutely correct
Brilliant. Young. Woman! Brava, Ayaan!
***** Which makes her 19 years younger than I am ... and even disregarding that, she remains a brilliant woman.
She looks young. I could believe she’s 30
i think the first statement points at what is wrong: 'so you have turned you back to Islam, and very publicly so, and payed the price. you have to travel with bodyguards'
Yes, says a lot doesn't it? Why can't people see that?
and that makes primative islam respectable how?
Ayaan I love you.😘
Love this lady ! She has buffalo balls compared to our pathetic politicians who toe the pc the line and have mouse balls !
Ayan's voice is that of rational reasoning. Those who disagree with her should think, if they are capable of that, what it means to live under Islam. It may satisfy those with puny brains, but the world would suffer horribly.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is more than beautiful, she is intelligent and courageous. Intelligent, she can explain the injustice of Islam without insulting anyone but simply putting into the table facts. Courageous, knowing that Islam kills the people who leave Islam, she decides to leave Islam and live as a free woman and not as a slave.
This Woman is g Great fighter for women and human Rights..that islam took a way from humanity
Great work ayaan
So right on. Love this lady, precious, brilliant, beautiful, stimulating, so right on.
This woman intrigues me .. Love her brain!
The verses in sura 9 abrogated all peaceful verses. Fight those that do not believe in allah or the last day. These verses order muslims to fight innocent people who do not believe in allah.
You don'tdo here, you're right Ayaan me too iam from same homeland like you. You do good job and we know that in somalia.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a HERO!
Muslims want to teach, not to learn from others. They think they already know all there is to know, they think they don't need to learn more. Even though right now Muslims have nothing to offer to others, they still persist in this delusion.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on causing offence to Islam ? ...Exellent! :-)
She is a true beauty in and out, her intelligence outstanding and a Hero to all of us!
it is wonderful to see so much honer, courage and truth all in one person!
I love her.
Stop being afraid of being called names and hurting peoples feelings. PERIOD.
BRAVO TO AYAAN HIRSI ALI, AT LEAST SHE LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THE WEST LIKE, QUESTION EVERYTHING WEATHER IT BE RELIGION, POLITIC'S HISTORY ANYTHING, NEVER EVER JUST STRAIGHT UP BELIEVE IN JUST ANYTHING WITH OUT INVESTIGATING IT AND RESEARCHING IT...SHE USE TO BE A MUSLIM AND TOOK SOME OF THE GOOD WESTERN VALUES TO AND APPLIED IT TO HER EVERYDAY LIVING......
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an amazing person...so very smart, so beautiful!
WE LOVE YOU AYAAN !!!!
What is it that people dislike this interview for?
+kingofmaiar Muslims
This woman is my hero!
I became good with a couple from an Islamic country after a month in Australia I asked her what do you like the most in Australia her answer was we can asked so many question.
Just watched a vid by a Somali spouting hatred against Ayaan. Only managed 2 mins. So scary! As an ex-catholic atheist, who can spk my mind without repercussions, I so admire her bravery, not just for leaving Islam, but for giving us s window into this horrible world. Thank you Ayaan. What a woman!
Hitchens always had great taste in women !
"The 3 most beautiful words in the seculare world Ayaan Hirsi Ali". Right?
She ia an amazing woman, thanks so very much for voicing your true and factual and true information
Ayaan is my hero.
Evil Islam exposed
@Trust NoOne No different than so-called Christians doing the same, they are not Muslims they just call themselves Muslims!!
no, she's not exposing Islam, she exposing Muhammadism, and she's correct but this woman is not talking about Islam!!!
4:29 I think the interviewer asks a very good question: how do we convince people that the principles of the Enlightenment are a good idea? This is worth asking because as we speak we have large numbers of American rightists who are rejecting Enlightenment principles.
We need to figure out how to educate people in these matters not just in Muslim countries, but in some of our own countries.
"how do we convince people that the principles of the Enlightenment are a good idea?" My thinking is the truly "set in their ways" types you have no hope of reaching it's like arguing with a truly convinced 911 truther or holocaust denier. It's demonstrating to the mainstream that people like creationists for example are just as irrational as the 911 truther or the holocaust denier and from the point of view of a skeptic these individuals are barely distinguishable (aside from the obvious fact that truthers and holocaust deniers aren't invited on CNN to discuss the issue as though there was a real controversy.).
"We need to figure out how to educate people in these matters not just in Muslim countries, but in some of our own countries." I'm a little more concerned with the Muslims because nobody is in permanent hiding right now because they said the wrong thing about Christianity. Also too I live in Canada so the Christian conservatives are less of an issue for me maybe I'd feel differently if say like Aron Ra I lived in Texas or something.
SockbatReplicaOne
_My thinking is the truly "set in their ways" types you have no hope of reaching it's like arguing with a truly convinced 911 truther or holocaust denier._
This is simply false. The majority of atheists are not people like me who were raised without religion, but people who were indoctrinated into a religion from childhood and left of their own accord.
Just because someone doesn't jump up and shout "Ah ha! You are right and I've been wrong all these years! I shall now immediately abandon religion!" in the course of a single conversation, do not assume that conversations like this have no effect. I've read scores of deconversion stories, and in most cases the deconversion process takes months, years, or even decades to unfold. Most people can't just flip a switch and turn off decades of emotionally-charged brainwashing.
_ I'm a little more concerned with the Muslims because nobody is in permanent hiding right now because they said the wrong thing about Christianity._
Muslims aren't a significant voting bloc in this country, and in the few localities in which they are a significant voting bloc, they generally elect decent candidates.
American rightists on the other hand have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into abandoning pretty much everything this country was supposed to stand for.
The rightists got us into an unnecessary war that even by the most conservative estimates resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Even the most fevered Islamist could never achieve a body count like that in his wildest fantasies. American rightists are just as unapologetic about the civilians they've killed as radical Islamists are.
Paul T Sjordal "This is simply false. The majority of atheists are not people like me who were raised without religion, but people who were indoctrinated into a religion from childhood and left of their own accord."
So then doesn't that answer your initial question of what do we do with the people who believe that Jesus is going to come back in their lifetime? Answer the same thing we have been doing.
"Even the most fevered Islamist could never achieve a body count like that in his wildest fantasies."
Well Muslims don't have the military capabilities of the United States and much of the killing in Iraq was and still is Muslim on Muslim. They even attack the funerals of their victims. So while civilian casualties caused by the west are incidental the civilian deaths caused by Jihadists are deliberate.
Also it still doesn't change the fact that the critics of Christianity don't wind up like Salman Rushdie or Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
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_So then doesn't that answer your initial question of what do we do with the people who believe that Jesus is going to come back in their lifetime? Answer the same thing we have been doing._
That's not what I'm saying at all.
You have claimed that it is impossible to persuade such people, but if that were true, most of those who are atheist today would not be atheists. Most atheists are atheists because they deconverted from religion, which is something you just implied ought to be impossible.
***** My mother is a born again Christian and when I as a kid there were certain video games she didn't want me playing if they involved things like magic. She was the kind that believed things like Dungeons and Dragons for example was satanic and all that horseshit.
Luckily I was raised by my grandparents(my parents were divorced when I was still a baby and my dad and stepmom could only afford to raise my sister and mom couldn't afford to raise either one of us) and my grandparents while they believed in God were pretty much secular they never went to church, they didn't say grace when we ate, God and religion was never even discussed. It was only when I went to visit I mother that I really got exposed to this stuff.
Ayaan is and will one of the most important humanbeings on this planet at this time in history , god bless her.
She s one of the great women of our time!
As Christopher Hitchens said, the most beautiful words in any language are 'Ayaan Hirsi Ali'.
Thinking for yourself is the priests worst nightmare.
Brilliant beautiful woman.
The fact that Islamic authorities have not denounced the current world jihad makes it clear that it is not entitled to claim offence over anything. The actions of Muslims, endorsed by the leaders of the faith make the Islamic faith the ideology that we find offensive. I applaud this woman for taking a stand against the tyranny displayed by her rejected faith.
In the Islamic heartland Saudi,The houses have compound walls 10 feet high signifying, mutual distrust, suspicion, fear among neighbors. This fruit of Islam.
She's good.
Love this woman. To think intelligent thinking people like her would be killed in countries for inciting "blasphemy".
Great and smart woman, brave on top.
Fatima Aziz bitch stfu
+Dee A
were you abused by him?
Prophet had absolute right on muslim women. He married six years old. Pervert! So check with ur parent, if anyone from ur family was abused by him.However, its not going to matter much for muslims as they do marry their first cousins.
Dee A
I like the picture of your child. How did he come about.
u seem to dunb ass.
Ms Ayaan is a true asset to this world when it comes to spreading the truth.
Great Lady..
She is my Hero. May God continue to protect her from the hands of this evil Ms
God bless you miss
What basic common sense this lady talks. She is spot on! I can only hope our government (Britain) listen's to her and the UN.Keep up the great work you are doing Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
The moderator implies that she got what she deserved as far as the backlash to her comments, she thereby makes the case for the violence as an acceptable response. Sad.
Really Ayaan is a trasure to civilised mankind
She’s a genius. Speaking the truth.
I am also offended what muslims doing here in our countries
am in love with you ayan...
you'll get Aids.
Fatima Aziz well i didn't take ur name, coz ur name is on WHO's aids list, infact leading above all..
Fatima Aziz thnx for your concern, but no thnx dear
+Dennis Mac
She wished she was white.
"We don't want your money. Share with us your values." That was masterfully stated.
True deceiver!!
want to know more about where she stands in her views.check her past when she was in Netherlands....
I know all about her past, read her books and everything. The woman is a true hero.
what she did she did it out of despair to escape People like you! Who are you to point your finger at her? what moral high ground do you think you got? Allah Moral? Muhammed? She has more "Balls" than you will ever have in this life and the next!
She is anti primative islam and that is where she is now. Wonderful person.
Clearly the truly bravest human alive on our planet today. What a beautiful person...
Don't apologise to me, apologise to Allah.
'How can you disbelieve in Allah when you were lifeless and He brought you to life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you [back] to life, and then to Him you will be returned'. (Quran 2:28-29)
I would rather have Christian neighbours all around me than muslims, and the heck i will certainly feel safer and more secure
+J Kissy I hope you will have someone like Timothy McVeil as a neighbour.
+Peter Kouswa Did McVeigh shout Jesus as he detonated the bombs? Did he claim to have done it in obedience to some verse in the bible? Was he known to have been attending some Christian church where the pastor espouses violence and ask followers to kill in order to please Jesus? You are utterly devoid of subsyancev
+J Kissy and I like to have white ppl neighbours than Africans knowing their are thief's and have guns
+Peter Kouswa What a stupid comment. Timothy McVeigh was a self-identified agnostic.
You wrong! Actually he was Muslim LOL
Islam is both a religion and a culture. I totally reject the religion and most aspects of the culture, but we have to acknowledge that Christianity went through a dark period for many centuries. It is most important to separate religion from government and allow freedom of expression and criticism. This has not yet become the rule with Islam.
No, I think I will 1) There are very clear reasons she blames Islam. I have now read both Ifidel and Nomad (her books) which lay them out 2) I have read both the Bible and the Qur'an. They are indeed both violent, and have justified many conflicts. It is simply that currently Islam in general is more serious about these conflicts 3) I have Muslim friends too, not many, but the ones I have I owe a lot to. However I reserve the right to criticize their beliefs, just as I do my Christian friends.
Ayaan is a blessing to our generation.. God is using her to liberate many Muslims from bondage of islam
Hello Celina,
Who put Jesus on the cross? I´m a white european, grew up in Denmark, in a non religious environment.
We do have a state church and our society, luckily, stems from a rather open minded sort of christianety - Lutheranian. And i think that the reason for us having such a.... reasonably, well working system of freedom of speech and human right can be traced back to the lack of religion.
The simple truth. I wish the leaders would listen to that.
Is this lady just GREAT! You really can NOT argue with a single thing she says. Shes right every time. She's right, because she kicks PC out the window and tells it like it is. I mean, she really, really is such an intelligent lady and I cant speak highly enough of her! Tc Ayaan!
she is absolutely amazing imo. always inspiring to listen to her.
She's right. Backward religion. Backward cultures. Backward ways to be.
Thank you for posting this.
Why can’t western governments be as bold as this woman!
“I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind… I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission'. Gandhi
Highly admire Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read her books - enlightening on what muslim women endure. She is an ex-muslim, but very supportive of Christian values in the Western World.
Ayan speaks the fact about islam...while cowards cave in!
She is a brave, wonderful charming woman. Let's hear her message because that is the true. Why to be politically correct to such offensive religion. I'm not an infidel but a human being. Hey Islam people, believe in whatever you want, that is your right, and be noticed none will take it off me neither. I dont like you people stoning others to death, FYS!
please don't generalize people
I'm atheist, and i don't consider all Sunnis as bad people
i've met some sunnis, and thankfully, they do not do bad things like what some of the sunnis that we both refer to
it is islam which is bad and primitive
it is islam which teaches some of these people to do bad things
if we remove islam, then we can have an honest discussion about morality that is embraced in democratic progressive societies
Oh yes, quite right...she only gets daily threats on her life by gangs of thugs for the imaginary 'crime' of apostasy. Clearly she doesn't know nearly as much about Islam as you do. Well done for pointing out how wrong she is for complaining about being a target for murder which is legitimized by holy texts. You are a truly enlightened individual.
What a wonderful woman!!
No East no West Islam is the best religion on the world
wow, what a brave woman! like it or hate it...
I'm am not lying. I have read the Quran. I had a roommate who was a muslim
I met muslims in my country, and fortunately they don't behave violently, since they are the minority
Once you go to a muslim-majority country, you will exactly know how they behave, even to minor-islamic sects (shias, ahmadiyyas) and especially to non-muslims
just read the news in Pakistan and Iraq, where shias and christians get killed
just listen to the preachings of al-qaradawi and other islamic scholars
The voice of reason. Let us all get on board with that, so we can discuss the ideas inherent in Islam that don't bring peaceful cooperation. Just as ideas in other "religions" (and Islam is a political system more than a religion).
Islam wants you to "surrender" yourself to an invisible omnipotent bearded old man in the sky and Christianity says "the lord is my shepherd" (which is the same as surrendering)... why anyone would want to be a slave is beyond me xD
Whatever you think about the bible, the topic here is about the negative teachings in the Islamic faith, so dont change the subject please. You must address that which is questionable whatever faith you follow so that you are not deceived. You must never follow blindly. You must address the negative things she has mentioned full stop
God Bless you Ayaan YOU ARE HERO, GOD HIMSELF PROTECTS YOU. KEEP UP GOOD WORK.
Thank you very much "MrMofo4eva" for proving my point to the world of how intolerant some muslims can be of others opinions, without resorting to antagonizing and many times life threating responses.
You're more upset about what I've said, rather than being upset with it ACTUALLY happening to women in the name of Allah.
This woman is beautiful, elegant and smart I hope she is happy wherever she is and I hope God bless her. We need more brave women like her denouncing everything about shittyislam.🌻.
Ayaan is Gem of a person.
Very good. I like your syntax - also, you pull no punches. How refreshing. BTW, if men get 72 virgins when they die, what do women get? A set of cookware?
what a wonderful young lady she is such a treasure and incredibly brave she speaks the truth about Islam I hope she stays safe we need her to keep speaking up
absolutely love this treasure of humanity...may she continue for many years
Life under threat from the religion of peace?