Summary
What [Ayaan Hirsi Ali] came to think was that she could not believe in a God whom others used to justify the kind of violence she saw within her religion. Since 9.11, Hirsi AIi has become one of the world's most outspoken opponents of radical Islam, specifically the way Islam is used to justify the subjugation of women. She, along with Irshad Manji, discusses this topic in "Irreconcilable Differences: TWo Women on Islam Today."
If you come here as an immigrant and you want to practice your religion and it's incompatible with human rights and the laws of the country you've chosen to immigrate to, you, as the immigrant, must be held to the same moral standard as everyone else. We abide by the same laws, and you don't discriminate in that sense. It's difficult to have that conversation if everyone has different standards saying, 'OK, well, for the immigrants we just have multiculturalism and they can beat their wives and the natives, they can't.' It becomes ridiculous if you start to differentiate within the legal system. If white men abuse women, it's called domestic violence and if Muslim men do it, it's called culture and religion, and that's not fair.See the full content of this document
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Women's Words
IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES: TWO WOMEN ON ISLAM TODAY
6:30 pmWednesday, Oct. 8$15-$75Lensic211 W. SanFrancisco St.505-988-1234In her 2007 memoir Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali write...See the full content of this document
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