Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks at UW--Madison

View the Q&A next ! :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34-KqPl9ts
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 titled Infidel.

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[MrBadboyfromusa]

She is crazy

[najmundrzejszy]

Ayaan, you are truly great and I am so glad that reality has such a inspiring spokeperson in you. I cannot imagine a more noble cause than exposing and fighting the cowardly religious fools. Stay strong and deliver the truth. And all the hateful comments only show that that those fools are afraid of your words. It is because they KNOW that their islamic beliefs and resulting actions are undefendable, hideous, oppressive, primitive and shameful.

[frankie3005]

@aibn16 I wonder if you really grasp the definition of "empirical" or "evidence" Mohamad stopped burying baby girls in where? In arab peninsula thanks you mentioned that. I would have shocked if you said in the world. LOL. Ok reality check now, Mohamad preserved baby girls to have sex with them, fresh tight pussy. LOL. But when they grow older he ordered to have them stonned, because the freako never liked old enlarged pussies. Ayan on the other hand, is from delusional to rational

[karlsmith00]

@aibn16 and btw, i want to congratulate on you insulting ayaan by implying SHE HAS SEX FOR MONEY!

that's so original. how did you think of that? it's so rare to insult women that way, we almost never see it. you are extremely intelligent.

she left an arranged marriage to a muslim pig, moved to holland, worked as a social worker, janitor, and translator, got a masters' degree in philosophy, joined government, and forced laws to protect women from FGM.

your prophet was a whore.

[karlsmith00]

@aibn16 look at this confused bitch.

1. evidence shows only dumb women with low self-esteem convert, and most end up leaving.

2. those women don't have any power in government, because muslim males have kept them out.

3. they stopped burying them because girls need to grow up and be baby machines and get married when they're 9.

4. you don't see? you don't see women being beheaded for being witches in saudi, girls getting married at 9, and being stoned to death? OPEN YOUR EYES.

[aibn16]

Emprical Evidence shows that more and more educated white middle class women are becoming Muslim by accepting ISLAM in the West country!

Plus, many who initiated and led so called 'Arab Spring' were Muslim Women. Is that because they were not-Muslims?

And I also know from my true knowledge that Islam is the first ever religion to stop alive buring of 'girls' in Arabian pennensulla!

I do not see any bad treatment Islam gives Women whatsoever!

But bottom line Ayan ran from marriage to brothel!

[melesNor]

the whole world should see this video

[FreedomtToReason]

I have so much respect for this lady. WOW. She is so brave.