In the words of the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal writing for L'Express last week: Many of the slogans, paraphrases on "free speech" and demonstrations of solidarity to the author of The Satanic Verses hide a terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground, and more and more people have to live under protection due to criticism of Islam. That is how Ayaan Hirsi Ali reacted to the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York. His attacker used a knife to stab a letter into Theo's chest: it said that I would be next". My friend, the sweet, vulgar, brilliant Theo Van Gogh was murdered simply for making a film with me. After I came out as an apostate, I was forced into a bubble of protection that still surrounds me to this day. I know all too well the threat Islamism poses. If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end.
"Salman Rushdie is a champion of free speech, bravely standing up for Western ideals when so many shy away from the fight. If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end." - Ayaan Hirsi Ali (pictured). Is it now a little bit clearer that radical Islam is today one of the biggest threats to Western culture and that we are not winning, but instead becoming like turkeys celebrating Thanksgiving? What was he guilty of? Having shown in class some of the Mohammed cartoons during a lesson on freedom of expression.Īll decent people should stand with Salman Rushdie and against his persecutors. They wanted to murder a teacher whose name we do not even know and who was forced to leave the school after heavy death threats. "Give us his head," Islamists shouted outside a British school in Batley. "Anyone who criticizes Islamism must expect to be violently attacked in this country and without anyone being offended." - Jan Aleksander Karon, journalist, Tichys Einblick, August 20, 2022. They live according to a strict security protocol: they have to tell the police in advance what they will do during the day, who they will see and where they will go and, if any place is not considered safe, these victims are forced to change plans. They live among us, in Paris, London, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam and all the other European capitals. We do not even know they exist: our fearful conformist press never tells their amazing stories.
" What happened to the faces and names on that list? They have been killed, left the public arena to protect themselves, or died under police protection. Islamic extremists in 2012 published a terrifying "most wanted list", like those of the FBI. terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground. "If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end." - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Unherd, August 7, 2022.
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