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Hugh Fitzgerald: “Spread Hummus Not Hate” in Beaver, Pennsylvania

One more example of Meet-Your-Muslim Neighbor Ninnies:

“Clearing the Air on Islam through ‘Spread Hummus, Not Hate’ events in Beaver,” by J.D. Prose, Beaver County Times, March 31, 2017:

BEAVER — If any two things bring Beaver Countians together, it’s food and religion, and Center Township resident Toni Ashfaq will incorporate both to educate residents about Islam during events in Beaver.

“There are a lot of misunderstandings, a lot of false information floating around,” said Ashfaq, a Muslim and the organizer of two Spread Hummus, Not Hate: Meet Your Muslim Neighbor gatherings Wednesday and Saturday at Beaver Area Memorial Library. “We just want people to meet us and see that we’re just like everybody else.”

“A Wisconsin native and convert from Catholicism, Ashfaq said she and two friends — Julia Chaney, a Christian, and fellow Muslim Dr. Raniah Khairy, an OB/GYN specialist at Heritage Valley Beaver hospital in Brighton Township — began brainstorming ideas “just to kind of build bridges and promote understanding” because of the “current political climate.”…

“We thought it was a pretty catchy title,” Ashfaq said with a laugh. Just one gathering was initially planned, but after receiving an “overwhelming” response, she said a second one was added.”

“Islam has been distorted by politicians and certain media, she said, not naming anyone specifically. Regardless, Ashfaq said Muslims are “not in denial” about Muslims committing violence, but “the media too often focuses solely on Islam.”

Yes, how true. What on earth could possibly be the reason for this unwonted fixation on Islam? Could it be that the media “too often focuses solely on Islam” because there have been more than 30,500 terrorist attacks by Muslims on non-Muslims, all over the world, since 9/11? Could it be that the attacks – let’s just list a few of the places that come immediately to mind, in Paris, Nice, Toulouse, in Brussels, Berlin, Wurzburg, Munich, Reutlingen, Ansbach, in Moscow and Beslan and St. Petersburg, in Amsterdam and Madrid, in New York and Washington and Boston, in Fort Hood and San Bernardino, in Orlando and Chattanooga, in St. Cloud and Little Rock, in Bali and Mumbai and New Delhi, in the Moro Islands of the Philippines, in Buenos Aires and in Beijing – are the reason why there is this “focus”on Islam? Or might it be because Muslims are engaged in so many other kinds of violence, including the sectarian conflict, pitting Sunnis against Shia, in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Pakistan, and Yemen, which also means that in several of these countries both Iran and Saudi Arabia are also involved, fighting proxy wars? Or could it be the continuing warfare against the Egyptian state from terrorists based in the Sinai, who are both Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic State sympathizers? Or the Muslims of Boko Haram, who have continued to kidnap Christian girls in Nigeria and use them as sex slaves? Or the attacks on Christians and Yazidis by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria? Or the continuing wars in post-Qaddafi Libya, with Misratan militias battling the forces of the Libyan National Army, while the remnants of the the Islamic State, defeated at Sirte in December 2016, remain a once-and-future threat in Libya, a country where things are so bad that there are those nostalgic even for Qaddafi’s mad rule? Could it be the violence by Muslims who have driven 200,000 Hindu Pandits out of Kashmir, terrified Christian farmers in the Moro Islands of the Philippines, pushed Buddhists out of the Chittagong Hills tract in Bangladesh, and killed hundreds of thousands of African Christians in the southern Sudan? Could it be the murder of the Christian Shahbaz Bhatti in Pakistan, for daring to question the blasphemy laws? Could it have something to do with the grooming gangs in England? Or the fact that in Sweden 70% of the rapes are committed by Muslims, though Muslims constitute only 4% of the population? Could any, or some, or all of this, and a great deal more in the same vein, be the reason the media “focuses” — if, in fact, it does — on Islam?

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the cultural erosion of free speech

This is not something that came out of nowhere. We are witnessing the gradual implementation of Istanbul resolution 16/18

Resolution 16/18, which was adopted at HRC headquarters in Geneva in March 2011 (with the support of the Obama Administration)—together with the OIC-sponsored Resolution 66/167, which was quietly approved by the 193-member UN General Assembly on December 19, 2011—is widely viewed as marking a significant step forward in OIC efforts to advance the international legal concept of defaming Islam.

“The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels”—Hugh Fitzgerald

Patrick Hannaford

If there was any doubt that Australia has a growing hostility towards free speech, the forced cancellation of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s tour of Australia and New Zealand surely lays those doubts to rest.

Hirsi Ali, a prominent critic of Islam, has spoken in Australia on multiple occasions. But she was reportedly forced to cancel her latest tour — including appearances on Q&A, and multiple other media engagements — due to “security concerns.”

Hirsi Ali is accustomed to threats of violence, having lived with around-the-clock protection since 2006, when a note naming her as a target was pinned to the body of her murdered Dutch colleague, Theo van Gogh. So we can safely assume that she wouldn’t cancel her tour unless there were credible threats to her safety or the safety of the organisers and attendees of her talks.

Few people will publically support such threats. But they don’t arise in a vacuum. They are the inevitable result of a growing cultural hostility towards free speech in Australia, and throughout the west.

This hostility was on open display in reports of the cancellation. Hana Assafiri, a Melbourne activist who had campaigned against Hirsi Ali’s tour, told The Guardian Australia that Hirsi Ali was being held accountable for her “divisive discourse”. Assafiri had participated in a video in which a group of young Muslim women denounced Hirsi Ali as a profiteer who uses “the language of white supremacy.”

To be clear, neither Assafiri nor the video she appeared in openly supported threats of violence. But their anti-free speech message, and their ridiculously over the top language, are examples of the growing intolerance that’s undermining free speech in Australia and around the world.

This hostility towards free speech has dominated much of Australia’s political debate over the past year.

On multiple issues, politicians and media commentators from across the political spectrum have continuously downplayed the importance of free speech and systematically undermined the distinction between speech and actions.

‘Not talking about them allows them to expand’: Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali criticises The Project’s Waleed Aly for calling Islamic State ‘weak’ in editorial widely-praised by the Left

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St Petersburg Train Bomber a ‘Former Sushi Chef Who Didn’t Say His Prayers’

St. Petersburg jihad murderer is Muslim from Kyrgyzstan, Akbarzhon Jalilov

The Telegraph says: “No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack and the suspect’s motives remain unclear.”

Not true:

The Telegraph, like other establishment media outlets, is a wretched propaganda sheet determined to mislead the public into thinking that Islamic jihad terror is not as much of a problem as it actually is.

Update:

Carriage of carnage: Pictures emerge from inside train where a nail bomb killed 14 in St Petersburg metro attack as suspected Islamist bomber is revealed to be a 22-year-old from Kyrgyzstan
  • Russian Akbarzhon Jalilov, 22, born in Kyrgyzstan, named by security services as suspected nail bomber
  • His home country has seen up to 500 join ISIS and the Boston Marathon bombers were also born there
  • The horrific blast occurred between Sennaya Ploshchad and Sadovaya train station in St Petersburg, Russia
  • Ambulances raced to the scene of the carnage caused by a nail bomb which was detonated on the network 
  • At least 14 people have been killed in yesterday’s bomb blast and 50, including several children, were injured
  • Nobody has claimed responsibility, but previous attacks on Russia have been blamed on ISIS and Chechens 
  • Bearded man first identified on CCTV as suspect hands himself in claiming innocence and faces lie detector
  • City transport bosses have closed four stations this morning after an anonymous warning of another attack

“Who is St Petersburg bombing suspect Akbarzhon Jalilov?,”

by James Rothwell, Telegraph, April 4, 2017:

Russia’s investigative committee has named the St Petersburg metro bomb attacker as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a 22-year-old man from the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.

The confirmation came after Kyrgyzstan’s security services, who said they are “maintaining contact with the Russian secret service for further investigation,” named Jalilov as a suspect this morning.

Earlier Russian investigators refused to confirm the report, saying that although they have established the identity of the attacker, whose remains they found at the scene of the blast, it would be “premature” to name the suspect publicly.

Related news:

St. Petersburg jihad mass murderer hailed from “breeding ground” for jihad in Central Asia

Denial begins: Daily Mail highlights claim that St. Petersburg jihad murderer “didn’t say his prayers”— more on this below the fold

Who is he?

Akbarzhon Jalilov was born on April 1, 1995. Kyrgyzstan’s security services say he is from the city of Osh.

Unconfirmed reports in local media say he moved to St Petersburg with his parents in 2011, and remained in the city after they later returned to Osh.

Very little is known about Jalilov’s background before he carried out the attack.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is learning the hard way that very few people are willing to “share the risk”

Tripe from Mohammedan BS-brigades

Alawite Ruby Hamad whines:  “western audiences across the political spectrum still won’t listen to Muslims like me…”

When I heard Ayaan Hirsi Ali was again doing a speaking tour of Australia, with requisite appearance on Q&A, my reaction was more eye-roll than outrage.–Eye rolling Mustard Ruby Hamad gets all worked up…. to protect Islam from scrutiny.

Full interview with Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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 Controversial Islamic critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali has hit back at a group of Australian Muslim women who accused her of being a “star” of Islamophobia and stirring up hatred. In their video the six woman said Ms Hirsi Ali – who was raised a Muslim but renounced her religion as an adult …Read More…From the Australian
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the death of free speech in Australia

J/Spectator

Once upon a time, progressives sought to unshackle women from woolly-minded religious orthodoxies about how females out to dress and behave. Nowadays, a figure like Hirsi Ali is either ignored or denounced by a generation of feminists more interested in donning a hijab in faux solidarity with their sisters in the Middle East than talking honestly about their plight. Indeed, for throngs of self-anointed feminists, shielding the world’s second largest religion from criticism matters more than hearing the words of a woman who lives her life under constant threat for committing the medieval crime of apostasy.

Mark Steyn:

Malcolm Turnbull’s ministry ought to be ashamed that a woman like Ayaan Hirsi Ali cannot speak in the country they purport to govern. And, if they want to do something to change that, they could start by speaking up for free speech. Will they? Will Turnbull? The men and women who run the western world – in Oz, in Britain, in Canada, in Europe – have made a bet that they can banish a few loudmouths like Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the fringes but that otherwise life will go on. No, it won’t. As I said of that Copenhagen eatery:

The restaurant that chickened out is called Fiat, in King’s New Square. It looks rather convivial from this photograph, with everyone quaffing their bubbly without a care in the world. They don’t seem to grasp that such civilized pleasures require civilization, and, ultimately, people willing to defend it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is learning the hard way that very few people are willing to “share the risk”.

‘Wrong’ kind of hero: Why feminists diss Hirsi Ali

By Rich Lowry

In the fashionable neologism designed to be a conversation-stopper, she is “an Islamophobe.” Brandeis University notoriously rescinded a planned honorary degree for her last year.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not just a heretic; she also is a believer. She has more confidence in Western civilization and its values than people who have never had to live outside it, or face down the enemies who want to destroy it.

If she doesn’t get the recognition she deserves, so much the worse for her detractors.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (forced to) cancel tour in Australia

WHY SHOULD AUSTRALIA FRIGHTEN A HIRSI ALI?

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Via SBS we all pay for 24/7 Arab broadcasting and Mohammedan propaganda

Ayaan Hirsi Ali may be forced to cancel, but via SBS we all pay for 24/7 Arab broadcasting and Islamist propaganda. Mash’Allah!
Let the irony of this insidious moral inversion not be lost. 

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Australia is not an Islamic country. Stop acting like it is

Corrine Barraclough

IT IS often said that the first step to reaching a resolution is admitting you have a problem.

If the goal is living in harmony without enforcing specific beliefs, isn’t it entirely illogical to embrace beliefs that challenge the very existence of secular society? (Pic: Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Acknowledging when things have become unmanageable is in itself movement in a direction away from denial.

Which is why we must be honest when we note that Islam is often used as an excuse to perpetrate violence.

“Strike terror in the hearts of the unbelievers” is not an excuse. Its the motive.

On Saturday, News Corp reported on Australia’s most secure jail. It shone alarming light inside Goulburn’s Supermax prison and the masses of Muslim inmates who bow to Mecca from behind bars.

Here, the Australian taxpayer funds convicted radical terrorists. Special diets are happily catered for in the delightfully agreeable, five star Hotel Du Terrorisme.

“The Muslims are entrenched in here only because they are here, they act no different in here or anywhere else,” serial killer Ivan Milat, one of few non-Muslim inmates at the jail, told news.com.au in exclusive letters.

This is at the heart of our problem with Islam, but most are too scared to acknowledge it.

Australia is not an Islamic country. Why are these people allowed to segregate, even behind bars? When did we start running PC prisons?

We’ve heard this time and time again, here and overseas.

In December, The Daily Telegraph reported NSW prisons have “become terrorist breeding grounds because the state government has dragged its feet on de-radicalisation programs.”

It took six years to introduce a program to target terrorists — not wandering freely on our streets, but secured in our jails. Shocking systematic failure.

Why? Because the PC brigade has decreed it is unacceptable to question someone’s beliefs. Of course it’s not all Muslims, but these inmates have already been found guilty of attacking Australian values and way of life. Doesn’t their privilege end there?

Who says “not all Muslims?” All Muslims, without exemption, are commanded to wage war on unbelievers until they say ‘there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his prophet’. It is time to take Islam seriously. Their privilege should have never been granted in the first place.

If a mass murderer confesses a specific book has inspired their actions, do you let them sleep with it under their pillow to fuel their mania? Much as we loathe the overused word “trigger”, perhaps it is never as relevant as in the context of terrorism.

In the UK, Prime Minister Theresa May told MPs Muslim convert Khalid Masood had previously been investigated over links to extremism before he wrecked havoc at Westminster. Who is running the monopoly on the words, “Go to jail: Go directly to jail…”?

Faith leaders head up a vigil including members of the public and police officers on London’s Westminster Bridge after Khalid Masood killed four people. (Pic: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Why can’t we talk about the fact that The Koran is being interpreted as preaching hate? This acrimonious elephant is not budging.

Interpreted? As if? Islam is not a matter of interpretation. Islam has to be taken straight up.

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Russia: Muslims fear ‘backlash’ from St Petersburg terrorist attack

St. Petersburg: Suspected jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber had ties to the Islamic State

“I saw a lot of smoke, a crowd making its way to the escalators, people with blood and other people’s insides on their clothes, bloody faces.”

And their bloodthirsty god is appeased. (Jihad Watch)

“Suspected suicide bomber in St. Petersburg attack had links to Islamic State: report,” by Denis Pinchuk and Alexander Winning, Reuters, April 3, 2017:

A suspected suicide bomber thought to be responsible for a deadly blast in the St Petersburg metro on Monday had links with radical Islamist groups banned in Russia, a law enforcement source told Interfax news agency.

First image of St. Petersburg terror suspect indicates that this was an Islamic jihad attack

Here’s the (Musel-)man who just murdered 10 people & injured 50 people in St. Petersburg, Russia. We are to make no conclusions from it. At all.– Bosch Fawstin, ex-Muslim, winner of the Garland Mo-toon contest.

Imagine my shock from the picture of the suspect of the st Petersburg bombing today

UPDATE: This man has turned himself in to police and insists he is innocent and had no involvement in the attack.

Cue the establishment media stories about “backlash” and “Islamophobia.”

 Two trains in Moscow bombed,  10 people murdered.

Reports blame a suicide bomber:

Interfax news agency reports a suicide bomber was behind the attack, with police identifying a 23-year old suspect who is a national of an ex-Soviet Central Asian nation. It didn’t name the suspect or the country. Police previously said they were hunting two suspects.

Originally police said they were looking man whose pictures suggested he was Muslim. A man of similar appearance has since come forward to say he is innocent.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the horrific explosion, which is being investigated as a terrorist attack…

President Vladimir Putin, who was in the city to meet the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, offered his condolences to the victims… “The causes are not clear, it’s too early. We will look at all possible causes, terrorism as well as common crime.”…

Extremists have targeted Russia’s public transportation systems in the past. In 2013, Russia was hit by twin suicide strikes that claimed 34 lives…

A bombing at the main railway station of the southern city of Volgograd killed 18 people while a second strike hit a trolleybus, killing 16.

A suicide raid on Moscow’s Domodedovo airport claimed by Islamic insurgents from the North Caucasus killed 37 people in January 2011.
First image of St. Petersburg terror suspect indicates that this was an Islamic jihad attack.

Some comments:

Until we from our countries there will be no peace. Can’t have mosques preaching our death.

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Australia is not an Islamic country. Stop acting like it is
IT IS often said that the first step to reaching a resolution is admitting you have a problem.
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Child Abuse Everywhere, But Islam Gets a Pass

But not from Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

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‘It is child abuse pure and simple’: Prominent Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls for all Muslim schools in Australia to be SHUT DOWN

  • Somali-born Islamic critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali says Islamic schools should be closed
  • The writer and former Dutch MP said they deprived children of opportunities
  • The former Muslim says Islamic schools are filling children with an ideology 
Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali is calling on Australia to ban Islamic schools 

Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali is calling on Australia to ban Islamic schools

‘It is child abuse pure and simple,’ she told The Daily Telegraph.

‘Muslim schools should not be allowed in liberal society.

‘These Muslim schools they take opportunity away from the children, they should be banned.’ 

Back to the story:

Matthew Johns witnessed ‘incredible cruelty’ in Catholic school

Islamic groups have dodged scrutiny by the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse

Islamic organisations have dodged scrutiny by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which has spent four years probing numerous religious organisations but made no inquiries into Islam. 

The commission, now in its fourth year, has diligently investigated Catholics, Anglicans, Pentecostals, Jewish, Jehovah’s Witnesses and obscure cults — along with sporting groups and the entertainment industry.

But it has published no information on sexual abuses against children within Islam, the third largest religion in Australia, raising questions as to whether the commission, which has proactively investigated even small religious sects, has failed Islamic children.

Lawyer Peter Kelso, who has represented 15 survivors of Christian institutions, recently wrote to the commission asking if it had looked at abuse from within Islam, particularly relating to forced child marriage, female genital mutilation and child sex.

“All groups need to be treated equally and fairly,” said Mr Kelso, who got no answers from the commission but argues it should give a balanced picture of faith-based abuse.

“We know there are underage Muslim girls being pressured into things they don’t want to do. I’m happy to suggest the Royal Commission is deliberately avoiding any investigation into Islamic institutions.

“They’ve even investigated a new-age ashram. Why not Islam? I suggest there is a culture of fear in that community.”

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St Petersburg just got hit with a ‘nothing-to-do-with-Islam’ attack

10+ Dead After Multiple Explosions in Saint Petersburg Subway

‘Most likely a terror attack’-sez Putin

At least ten have been killed and over 30 wounded after two explosions happened on the Saint Petersburg metro on Monday afternoon. Read the original story below. Russia’s international news agency RIA Novosti reports the Russian President Vladimir Putin has been alerted

St Petersburg Metro explosion: At least 10 dead after ‘shrapnel-filled device’ explodes in ‘terror attack’
  • Explosion on Metro network in Russian city of St Petersburg 
  • At least 10 people killed and 50 reported hurt in ‘terror attack’
  • Pictures show carriage doors blown open by explosion
  • Blast reported to have been caused by shrapnel-filled device
  • Claims bomb left in briefcase before owner moved carriages
  • Another unexploded device ‘also found on subway system’
  • Putin was due to be in city meeting  Belarusian counterpart
Bomb filled with shrapnel explodes on St. Petersburg subway, Putin says terrorism possible

See what a scoundrel Putin is? He didn’t immediately rule out terrorism, the way a good Western leader would. This is a developing story, and it might turn out to something other than jihad attack, but given the propensity of jihadis to set off bombs in crowded public places, jihad cannot at this point be ruled out.

“Russia subway bomb blast: At least 10 reported dead,” by Mike Arroyo, Fox News, April 3, 2017:

DEVELOPING – At least one bomb blast on a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday killed an estimated 10 people and wounded as many as 50 more, Russian officials said, in what President Vladimir Putin called a possible act of terror.

One of the blasts came from a device that appeared to be filled with shrapnel, Sky News reported. Putin said investigators were looking into all possible causes. Russia’s Fontanka newspaper reported that an unexploded device turned up at a different subway station as crews worked to deactivate it.

The train was going in between two stations in the center of the city, investigators said. Photos and video from the Sennaya Ploshchad station appeared to show wounded victims on the smoke-filled platform, and a train car with a door blown out. Frantic commuters reached out through the doors and windows, shouting, “Call an ambulance!”

Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. Andrei Kibitov, spokesman for the St. Petersburg governor, told Russian television 10 people were killed and 50 injured.

“People were bleeding, their hair burned,” a witness told Russia’s Life News. “My girlfriend was in the next car that exploded. She said that he began to shake. When she came out, she saw that people were mutilated.”

Crews closed all subway stations in the northern Russian city and evacuated passengers, administration officials said. Ambulances and other medical teams rushed to the scene.

“The causes are not clear, it’s too early. We will look at all possible causes, terrorism as well as common crime,” Putin responded….

(Muslim) women condemn Ayaan as the “voice of white supremacy”

We need a voice against stupidity. We have a PM who invites radical Islamic headbangers and their tilts to “iftar dinners” at taxpayer expense, bows and scrapes to them and disses  critics. I doubt that we will hear a word from him in favor of free speech.

HIRSI ALI CANCEL’S TOUR, CITING MORE THREATS

Andrew Bolt

My guest on tonight’s The Bolt Report was to be Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She has now cancelled her Australian tour for security reasons, among other factors.

And, indeed, the threats and abuse to the tour organisers have been astonishing – at least, to those who haven’t noticed the increasing intolerance of the Left and Islamic Right:

Internationally renowned author and anti-Islam campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali has cancelled her upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand, citing security concerns as one of the reasons for the decision.

Ms Hirsi Ali was due to speak in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland from Thursday to Sunday this week, but has suddenly pulled out.

She lives with around-the-clock security protection due to her criticisms of radical Islamists…

Ms Hirsi Ali was born to a Muslim family in Somalia, but has been a vocal critic of Islam after renouncing the religion…

She has been a controversial figure, earning, according to the event’s organisers, “widespread criticism among the liberal left and death threats from the religious right.”

The event was organised by Think Inc., a Sydney-based organisation that attempts to provoke debate and rational discourse through conversation…

Its insurers were contacted and warned there could be trouble, and venues where she was scheduled to speak had been contacted and warned that there would be protests where she was due to appear.

Much of this was done by an individual called Syed Murtaza Hussain of the Council for the Prevention of Islamophobia Inc.

He informed Festival Hall in Melbourne there would be 5000 protesters outside the venue if the engagement went ahead.

May I point out to the Council for the Prevention of Islamophobia that it creates exactly what it claims to condemn?

Then there were the 400 activists and academics also demanding Hirsi Ali not come speak, vilifying her and giving encouragement to those wanting to stop her by other means:

We, the undersigned, would like to express our utmost disappointment that Ayaan Hirsi-Ali is being brought to Australia by Think Inc…. Although we are not a homogenous group, we are united in our condemnation of Hirsi-Ali’s discourse which is grounded in hate-mongering and bigotry… Hirsi-Ali’s divisive rhetoric simply serves to increase hostility and hatred towards Muslims…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s conversation does not contribute to any insights nor further the debate in any way. This is simple sensationalism designed to fuel division and hate. 

These women turn on Hirsi Ali as the voice of “white supremacy” – can you believe it? – and accuse her of profiteering from the death threats against her. They denounce her as an oppressor of Muslim women, when the evidence is that she is oppressed in a way none of her critics are.

Oh, and that claim that Hirsi Ali “does not speak for us”? Of course, she doesn’t – because she’s not a Muslim now, is she?

Maher Mughrabi, foreign editor of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, last week heaped up the hate – and note the blame-the-West victimhood that makes reform of Islam near impossible:

Hirsi Ali serves up pseudo-theology that tells us that if we pulp the nasty, warlike Madinan verses of the Koran and extract the kind and gentle Meccan ones, we’ll have better Islam and better Muslims.

Never mind the fact that every religion and every nation that has ever aspired to create a community has had both martial and pastoral characteristics (is that blood on the wattle?). Never mind that in the past two centuries far more violence has been imported into the Muslim world than it has exported.

In other news:

Sarah Hanson Young at Pooraka Mosque!

So much for a strong, independent leader…Show some self respect Sarah, Women in Australia do NOT need to cover up for fear of assault! Try campaigning in Saudi Arabia and speak about the oppression of Women there, then you will understand how Islam treats Women! Just proves she would do ANYTHING for votes!