Ayaan Hirsi Ali Q&A at UW--Madison

View the speech first ! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk01ulyFSRc
Highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFQ3mUTKW8

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Tuesday, 2nd February, 2010. Talk re: Abuse of women by Muslims, death threats made against her due to her academic work in Holland. This is part of the "Distinguished Lecture Series" The University of Winconsin-Madison, Memorial Union Theater, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706.
http://www.wisc.edu/ http://uniontheater.wisc.edu/ http://www.union.wisc.edu/wud/dls-speakers.htm
[Filmed by Charlie Gorichanaz and Conor Furey-King]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali :- Ayaan Hirsi Magan Ali is a Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician who is known for her views as a prominent critic of Islam, as well as strongly opposing its related practices of circumcision and female genital cutting. Her screenplay for Theo van Gogh's movie Submission led to death threats, which resulted in the director's murder. She is the daughter of the Somali politician and opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse and is a founder of the women's rights organisation the AHA Foundation. http://theahafoundation.org/ in 2007 to help protect and defend the rights of women in the West from oppression justified by religion and culture.

When she was eight, Hirsi Ali's family left Somalia for Saudi Arabia, then Ethiopia, and eventually settled in Kenya. She sought and obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992, under circumstances that later became the center of a political controversy. In 2003 she was elected a member of the House of Representatives (the lower house of the Dutch parliament), representing the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). A political crisis surrounding the potential stripping of her Dutch citizenship led to her resignation from the parliament, and led indirectly to the fall of the second Balkenende cabinet in 2006.

As of 2011 Hirsi Ali is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, http://www.aei.org/ [AEI's self-described Organization and Purposes: "The AEI is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise. AEI pursues these unchanging ideals through independent thinking, open debate, reasoned argument, facts and the highest standards of research and exposition. Without regard for politics or prevailing fashion, we dedicate our work to a more prosperous, safer and more democratic nation and world"]

In 2005, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She has also received several awards including a free speech award from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the Swedish Liberal Party's Democracy Prize and the Moral Courage Award for commitment to conflict resolution, ethics, and world citizenship. In 2006 she wrote a memoir. The English translation in 2007 is entitled Infidel.

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[belzondium]

Ugh, it's sad to me that this was at my alma mater... I'm ashamed by the idiocy of some of these questioners.

[circuitochiuso]

Another example of APPEASING muslims @ min 21:00

While insisting on keeping short( under a minute) the questions and answers too( !?!), the "distinguish" official from the Univ of Winsconsin allows the muslim speaker Mohamad to keep the mic for 2min and 30sec, tapping him "gently" his shoulder at the end.

On the other hand @ min 16:05 another Univ official almost pushes away and stops the nonmuslim fellow that lives in a muslim country when he wants to add something.