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"Controversial feminist speaks as part of DLS," by Lydia Statz in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Daily Cardinal, February 3:

Former Muslim and feminist speaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali gave a controversial lecture at the Memorial Union Tuesday night as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.

Over a thousand people endured hour-long lines and airport levels of security to attend the highly-anticipated event in which she delivered a message critical of Muslim society and called for increased freedom for Muslim women all over the world.

Hirsi Ali said she uses her personal experiences as a former Muslim to form her views on the treatment of Muslim women. Originally from Somalia, she fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage, and began to question much of what she had been taught.

"I had wholeheartedly embraced Islam," Hirsi Ali says of her teenage years. "And yet, there was this deep part of me that rebelled, and I had questions about things that I had no right to ask questions about."

She said those questions included the topics of modest dress for women and the view of women as the property of their husbands. She cited cases in the Arab world and in the U.S. where violence against women was justified through the Qur'an and Islamic teachings in illustrating her argument.

In countries under Islamic rule, Ali said, "It is law to disclude [sic] women from rights and freedoms enjoyed by men. Marriage and divorce, testimony in court, dress, inheritance. In these issues, Islam scripture is implicit that women are inferior to men."

Actually, it's explicit: "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has made the one superior to the other..." -- Qur'an 4:34

Kepha | February 3, 2010 4:21 AM

The answer's simple: let all those Muslim women become Evangelical Christian women.

Kepha, I'm not sure if you're snarking on evangelical Christians or not, but I'm sure you'll agree simply by observing the two groups in situ that evangelical Christian women are far better placed and see many more simple freedoms than women who are enslaved by the Muslim 'faith'.

And, bonus, the Christian women get to keep their clitoris!


As another commenter opines, it's time we learned some Arabic. When these jackals scream and chant "ALLAHU AKBAR! (allah is Greatest)" we should answer "ALLAHU N'AKBAR (allah is the source of our CATASTROPHE)!"

Or, "Allahu Snackbar", and give 'em a BLT sandwich.

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