Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an exceptional writer in the Western hemisphere. She has written several books, including her book Infidel, and co-filmed a movie, "Submission". Her book Infidel and film "Submission" detail her world before her escape to the Netherlands. Her world as an Islamic female was repressed and ultimately very violated in Western world sense. However her writings, namely her article for Newsweek, raise concerns over Christophobia and Islamophobia. In the East Christians are persecuted for being, well, Christian, and not only are they persecuted, but they're also killed in large numbers. To supplement her points on the issue, she provides numbers of Christian people killed in various countries, including Pakistan, Iran, Egypt and Nigeria, which all have had ongoing religious struggles. Several extremist groups, such as Boko Haram, have killed many Christians in the past year. Many have been killed and the battle continues.
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Ali's arguments. She is an ex-Muslim female and as she said in the excerpt of her book online, females are kept like well-trained animals, they are not treated like humans. So does that make her biased? Yes, as an educated women, it makes her extremely biased because she always knew the ways of the world outside her homes in four different Islamic countries and could never touch them. It would be enough to make anyone angry and biased. Sure, she is a valid source of information due to her intimate relationship with the issue, but we cannot allow her to draw our conclusions. So to the lady who regards Ali as a saint due to Ali's opinions on Islam, please get out of the Christian-insulated-bubble you live in and into the real world. She is not a saint and she even though she is bringing up the issues of Christians in Islamic countries, she is atheist in her own beliefs.
I find her arguments difficult to understand, not by the way she words them or by the way they are addressed, but from the fact that there is a lack of a concise argument. We understand that she is against Islam, no doubt of that, however the ways she takes her argument are incomplete (at least from the articles provided to us) and many. In some articles she explains that she is working for a reform to Islam. Through this she called on American Christians to talk to American Muslims about the "limitations of their faith". In some other settings, she is completely against Islam because they perform "Christophobia" and kill people. She does have facts to back up her argument, however the facts are general numbers and they are extremely small numbers based on the actual populations of Christians in the Islamic countries. While the Christians there do live in fear every day, these are limited, radical, extremist groups that perform these massacres. Not to mention the fact that Christians can and do respond just as violently, for example the Nigerian conflict. The reason we don't hear about the Christians fighting back and massacring Muslims is because we live in a predominately Christian society, people would be up in arms against the media if that news was shared. I feel her comment about American Christians talking to American Muslims about the "limitations", which there are, I don't think that any educated woman would deny that, is extremely unnecessary. The Muslims here are not typically violent, in fact I know several Muslims who are extremely pacifist, so why would we try to discuss and practically insult their religion based on the fact that radical Islam is somewhere is the world? There are revolutions elsewhere in the world, should we discuss among ourselves as the American people about participating in these revolutions because there are revolutions elsewhere? No. It is unnecessary and insulting. Why would we willingly insult a group of people? Personally I feel that her horrific, I would not deny Ali that fact, because it truly is horrific, years of growing up as Muslim have clouded her judgement and her common sense. It is not our place to judge other people based on the laws of their religion. If something is going to change within it, it will change by itself. The best example is the Christian faith which has changed radically in the past 50-200 years.
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Ali's arguments. She is an ex-Muslim female and as she said in the excerpt of her book online, females are kept like well-trained animals, they are not treated like humans. So does that make her biased? Yes, as an educated women, it makes her extremely biased because she always knew the ways of the world outside her homes in four different Islamic countries and could never touch them. It would be enough to make anyone angry and biased. Sure, she is a valid source of information due to her intimate relationship with the issue, but we cannot allow her to draw our conclusions. So to the lady who regards Ali as a saint due to Ali's opinions on Islam, please get out of the Christian-insulated-bubble you live in and into the real world. She is not a saint and she even though she is bringing up the issues of Christians in Islamic countries, she is atheist in her own beliefs.
I find her arguments difficult to understand, not by the way she words them or by the way they are addressed, but from the fact that there is a lack of a concise argument. We understand that she is against Islam, no doubt of that, however the ways she takes her argument are incomplete (at least from the articles provided to us) and many. In some articles she explains that she is working for a reform to Islam. Through this she called on American Christians to talk to American Muslims about the "limitations of their faith". In some other settings, she is completely against Islam because they perform "Christophobia" and kill people. She does have facts to back up her argument, however the facts are general numbers and they are extremely small numbers based on the actual populations of Christians in the Islamic countries. While the Christians there do live in fear every day, these are limited, radical, extremist groups that perform these massacres. Not to mention the fact that Christians can and do respond just as violently, for example the Nigerian conflict. The reason we don't hear about the Christians fighting back and massacring Muslims is because we live in a predominately Christian society, people would be up in arms against the media if that news was shared. I feel her comment about American Christians talking to American Muslims about the "limitations", which there are, I don't think that any educated woman would deny that, is extremely unnecessary. The Muslims here are not typically violent, in fact I know several Muslims who are extremely pacifist, so why would we try to discuss and practically insult their religion based on the fact that radical Islam is somewhere is the world? There are revolutions elsewhere in the world, should we discuss among ourselves as the American people about participating in these revolutions because there are revolutions elsewhere? No. It is unnecessary and insulting. Why would we willingly insult a group of people? Personally I feel that her horrific, I would not deny Ali that fact, because it truly is horrific, years of growing up as Muslim have clouded her judgement and her common sense. It is not our place to judge other people based on the laws of their religion. If something is going to change within it, it will change by itself. The best example is the Christian faith which has changed radically in the past 50-200 years.