Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-Dutch-American ex-Muslim who has been vilified as an Islamophobe by her opponents,
has called on atheists to recognize that while all religions may have problems, not all religions are equally bad. As she explains in an
excerpt of her new book
Heretic:
Are you a partisan of Ali? Do you agree that there is a fundamental problem with Islam, and that Islam needs fundamental reform?
By the way, what do you think about Ayan working with Theo Van Gogh ?
"There is no doubt that van Gogh relished an argument, but he was also capable of making outrageously offensive statements. One example will give a flavour of his retaliatory style. After he had been criticised by the Jewish historian Evelien Gans, he wrote in Folia Civitatis magazine: 'I suspect that Ms Gans gets wet dreams about being ****ed by Dr Mengele.' In 1991 he was fined for anti-Semitism following comments he had made about gas chambers in Moviola magazine."
Amsterdamned, part one | From the Observer | The Observer
"When the novelist and filmmaker Leon de Winter, whose work often revolves around his Jewish family background, managed to get public money for his projects, van Gogh detected cynical manipulation and sentimental cant. “Hey, it smells like caramel today—well then, they must be burning the diabetic Jews,” he wrote, mocking what he saw as a Jewish cult of victimhood.
He described the Jewish historian Evelien Gans as “having wet dreams” about the Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele. In the guilt-ridden land of Anne Frank, there is a certain amount of strained piety about such topics, but van Gogh’s response had all the subtlety of the Dutch football hooligans who find it amusing to abuse an Amsterdam soccer club known as “the Jews’ club” by mimicking the sound of escaping gas.
Van Gogh seemed to regard delicacy as a sign of fraudulence, and in this he spared no one; Jesus, in his book, was “that rotting fish in Nazareth.”
Final Cut - The New Yorker
Don't put words on my mouth, i was against his killing.
On women :
"Anja Meulenbelt quotes Theo van Gogh, who said that feminists should stop campaigning against husbands' violence in marriages: "Gentlemen who give a tough hiding are quite attractive to some ladies really."
On muslims :
"Van Gogh routinely substituted “goat****er” for “immigrant to The Netherlands from an Islamic country.” Including in his book Allah knows best, 2001: "There is a Fifth Column of goat****ers in this country, who despise and spit at its native people. They hate our freedom." "Soon, the Fifth Column of goat****ers will hurl poison gas, diseases and atomic bombs at your children and my children.” "
Indymedia NL (Nederland) - Theo van Gogh: his views; and after
There's some links from articles in dutch but no translation.
When Dieudonné said those kind of things (while he is a comedian) he was condemned and people said he was racist, antisemite and nobody invated him on TV.
Imagine someone making a movie with Dieudonné about judaism (as he is obsessed with it) and ask people to reform or doing this or that about their community/religion. Would you listen ?
It's the same with Ayan, muslims don't want to listen to her.
I'm ok that she tries to find a solution for helping women against mutilation, against forced mariage (both of them are cultural not islamic and happening in also in some christian communities in africa) in her countries (Kenya/Somalia) or in general.
I think that it's good if she also denounces terrorism or any extremism. But her opinion about Islam reformation, no thanks.
PS : Again i was not talking about the killing of Theo VG that i disaproove but about
the kind of person he was - for me a racist, antisemite, islamophobe and mysogine -
And the fact that someone (Ayan) collaborated with this kind of person don't give me any interest to her ideas. But like i said i think she is an opportunist.
