Before I get to the heart of this article, I just want to make it clear that I have a world of respect for Hirsi Ali for finding the strength to leave Islam, her tireless work against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and attempting to rescue others from the cult of hate.
But like many prominent names in this field, she has no real long term answers in order to win the war with Islam. She also seems to have some kind of emotional attachment to Islam as well. One that does not bode well for the West, and that is the reason I write articles like this. Because most of the so called leaders in this war, are taking us down the road to an Islamic hell.
When I first got the idea to write this article it was because of her call to reform Islam. But while doing my homework I disappointedly discovered that many of her other policies actually empower Islam.
1. As you will see in the following video, not only is she against banning Islam, she is also against banning the burqa. Which just leads to other aspects of Sharia seeping into non-Islamic communities.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Banning the Burqa Misses the… by FORAtv
Besides taking a stand for the burqa, she approves of Muslims praying five times a day. Even though the Islamic prayer itself preaches hatred against Christians and Jews.
She even called the birthplace of Islam beautiful.
Reason: In Infidel, you point out many positive religious experiences you had as a Muslim. For instance, you describe Mecca’s Grand Mosque as a place of vastness and beauty. You praise the kindness that you experienced there, a sense of community, a lack of prejudice. Are there times when you miss that aspect of being a practicing believer?
Hirsi Ali: I’d love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God—much the way a non-Catholic might go to Vatican City because of the beauty of the buildings and the artifacts. There’s a sense of calm in such places that’s wonderful, and there’s the awe you feel because of what humanity can accomplish.
Lack of prejudice?
As if all of that is not bad enough, she adds the following:
CONAN: Thank you, Miriam. Here’s an email from Brenda in Berkeley: Don’t you think that persons from traditional Muslim societies are not a good cultural fit for the West, particularly America, and should not be admitted as immigrants? Not all diversity is desirable. And she gives us examples of FGM, which by – I assume she means female genital mutilation, and polygamy.
Ms. ALI: You know, I don’t – I really don’t think that we – by excluding people or by kicking people out of the country, that that is where we should look for solutions. The United States is a highly moral country. Most Americans go out of their way to help people who are underprivileged, whether it’s in the United States or outside of the U.S.
Hirsi went on to say that those who call for Sharia should be turned away. What if they lie? What about the hordes of Muslim invaders who are destroying Europe from within?
Now I take you to her latest article that was published by the Wall Street Journal, among other online news sites. An article that follows the same suicidal pattern of the West ever since 911. Pinning our hopes on “good Islam” saving us from “bad Islam”. An article that is a promotion of her new book, “Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.”
Why Islam Needs a Reformation
To defeat the extremists for good, Muslims must reject those aspects of their tradition that prompt some believers to resort to oppression and holy war
“Islam’s borders are bloody,” wrote the late political scientist Samuel Huntington in 1996, “and so are its innards.” Nearly 20 years later, Huntington looks more right than ever before. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, at least 70% of all the fatalities in armed conflicts around the world last year were in wars involving Muslims. In 2013, there were nearly 12,000 terrorist attacks world-wide. The lion’s share were in Muslim-majority countries, and many of the others were carried out by Muslims. By far the most numerous victims of Muslim violence—including executions and lynchings not captured in these statistics—are Muslims themselves.
Not all of this violence is explicitly motivated by religion, but a great deal of it is. I believe that it is foolish to insist, as Western leaders habitually do, that the violent acts committed in the name of Islam can somehow be divorced from the religion itself. For more than a decade, my message has been simple: Islam is not a religion of peace.
Unfortunately Hirsi is being hypocritical here. Because by implying Islam can reform is exactly what she is condemning.
SNIP:
As it turns out, the West has some experience with this sort of reformist project. It is precisely what took place in Judaism and Christianity over the centuries, as both traditions gradually consigned the violent passages of their own sacred texts to the past. Many parts of the Bible and the Talmud reflect patriarchal norms, and both also contain many stories of harsh human and divine retribution. As President Barack Obama said in remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast last month, “Remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.”
Christianity was able to reform because its central figure, Jesus, was a man of peace. The polar opposite of Mohammad.
For instance, Mohammad ordered people to be brutally stoned to death.
Bukhari Volume 8, Book 82, Number 813:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
When Ma’iz bin Malik came to the Prophet (in order to confess), the Prophet said to him, “Probably you have only kissed (the lady), or winked, or looked at her?” He said, “No, O Allah’s Apostle!” The Prophet said, using no euphemism, “Did you have sexual intercourse with her?” The narrator added: At that, (i.e. after his confession) the Prophet [Muhammad] ordered that he be stoned (to death).
While Jesus saved a woman from being pelted to death.
“Jesus Forgives an Adulterous Woman”
John 8:1-30:
VERSE 7: “And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
VERSES 8-9: “And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.”
Jesus spoke out against lying.
42: Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
43: Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
44: You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45: Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
On the other side, Mohammad instructed Muslims to lie.
Sahih Muslim Book 032, Number 6303:
Humaid b. ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Auf reported that his mother Umm Kulthum daughter of ‘Uqba b. Abu Mu’ait, and she was one amongst the first emigrants who pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him), as saying that she heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: A liar is not one who tries to bring reconciliation amongst people and speaks good (in order to avert dispute), or he conveys good. Ibn Shihab said he did not hear that exemption was granted in anything what the people speak as lie but in three cases: in battle, for bringing reconciliation amongst persons and the narration of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration of the words of a wife to her husband (in a twisted form in order to bring reconciliation between them).
As for the Crusades, apparently she does not know that they were the result of 100’s of years of Muslim aggression.
Coming up next Part II…Hirsi follows the failed policy of trying to categorize Muslims.
“None can change his words”, “no change let there be”, “far, far from mercy… changes the religion of Islam after me. Who can get a clue?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/252004497/Reform-Reform-Islam-Islam
Wouldn’t you think she would have known that?
I presume that she is aware of it. She seems to be trying to tap dance around the literalism issue. Any apparent success would be narrow, shallow and short lived.
She is either in deep denial, or in it for the money. Her article was part of the promotion for her new book on reforming Islam. She also hooked up with that fraud Zuhdi Jasser. Which will only increase her exposure.
I can not rule out a combination of causes.
I never really trusted her Chris. She lied to enter the Netherlands. ( although, as WE know a Muslim thing !)
At the risk of false accusations but everything has to be weighed in these dangerous days ,Is there a possibility she could be an infiltrator such as has always been a problem in resistance movements , and one has to be convincing to infiltrate !
Let us not forget Kim Philby the English double spy whose treason caused the death of many British agents during the cold war. Long after his death ( he had to flee to Russia for the remainder of his life ) his former friends still reeled at his treason as he had been so trusted and liked.
She sells books and says some great things. Become acceptable and trusted but calling herself a “heretic ” is worrying as very different from an apostate !
She has to know that Muslims are not going to side with an apostate over Islam. Thanks for dropping by. 🙂
Let me remind you of your own collected islamic writings about “reform:”
They cannot add to it, nor “reform” any of it; islam cannot and will not ever change, in any way, because it’s the “perfect” word of allah, and the metaphoric so-called “gates of ijtihad” (interpretation) have been closed for centuries!
Surah Al-Ma’idah 5.3 informs Muslims that Allah has PERFECTED Islam. Can perfection be improved? Can perfection be reformed?? If genocidal conquest is perfect, how can it be eliminated as a sacrament of Islam???
Surah Al-An’am 6.115 informs us that “none can change his words”. Surah Al-Kahf 18.27 confirms the immutability of Allah’s words: the Qur’an. Surah Yunus 10.64 confirms the obvious. Surah Ar-Rum 30.30 tells us that Islam cannot be changed. Exactly what part of this is not clear to liberals? Islam is the perfected wart of Allah and cannot be reformed. It is immutable.
Surah Al-Anfal 8.39 commands Muslims to wage war against pagans until resistance ceases and only Allah is worshiped. Surah At-Taubah 9.29 commands Muslims to wage war against people with scriptural religions until they are subjugated and submit to annual demands for extortion. Both commands are without chronological or geographic limits. They are permanent in duration and global in scope.
Muslims are admonished in Surah At-Taubah -.38-39, that they will suffer a “painful torment” if they do not join the Jihad. Muslims are promised, in Surah At-Taubah 9.111 and Surah As-Saff 10-12 that he will admit them to his celestial bordello if they join the Jihad.
Jihad is the Muslim’s get out of Hell free card! If he does not play that card, he meets Allah with a defect: hypocrisy. (Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 4 #2763)
The minimum Jihad quota is once each year. If Jihad is not performed in a year when it was possible, all with knowledge of the imperative are sinners, liable to eternal damnation. (Reliance of the Traveller O9.1, Hedaya 2.140-141, The Book of Jihad pg. 18)
Muslims are commanded, in Surah Al-Anfal 8.57, to treat vanquished foes harshly so as to strike terror into those behind them. They are commanded in 8.60 to maximize the power of their army so as to terrify thereby prospective victims.
Muslims are promised, in Surah At-Taubah 9.120, that acts of terrorism will be rewarded with extra credit towards an upgrade in the celestial bordello.
Muslims are warned, in Surah Al-Baqarah 2.85, that they cannot select the parts of the Qur’an they like and reject the rest.
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The pdf version with quotes and links is here:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/252004497/Reform-Reform-Islam-Islam
Thanks; I had misplaced it, having “stolen” the main ideas, shorn of the associated links, to put into my general easy-access BAN ISLAM text file.
Open the file, click the embed link in the lower frame, set the size U want and copy the embed code; insert the embed code into the html source (text tab). File will appear in blog post.
Thanks for the insightful comment Vlad!
Always a pleasure to help destroy islam, Christopher! “Delendum est,” etc!
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Under Shari’ah, abjuring any part of Islam carries the death penalty. Read it and curse Islam.
http://www.shariahthethreat.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/reliance_of_the_traveller.pdf#page=613
Extremely well researched Christopher! Hirsi suffers from the same psycho-induced conditioning that a prisoner who is beaten by his jailer daily and later embraces him in a perverted loving way. Sean Hannity is also calling for reformation in Islam. Islam, the 5 pillars, the Ahadith, Bukari, Muslim, Koran cannot be reformed. They are of Satan. They must be cast into the fire.
Thanks! When it comes to Islam Hannity is surely uninformed. That is besides the fact he does not have the courage to name Islam itself as the enemy.
He is careful to prefix the R word, failure to prefix it would probably cost him his job.
I have heard him quote the Koran on his radio show. Bu when he got caught between two experts and the truth came out, he was like a fish out of water, flopping helplessly.
Yes, he did that when we argued on Twitter. He kept insisting that “RADICAL ISLAM” is the problem. Then said he would not say Islam itself is the problem.
Those who live by the printing press, camera and microphone do not have our luxury of full honesty. They would suffer economic injury if they told the full truth as we do.
I understand your point. But the fantasy of Islam reforming is killing us. It gives people an easy out not to fight this war (non-violently), and she has naïve and trusting non-Muslims buying into it. She has set us back.
If she raises some consciousness, its a good thing. If she puts a few suckers back to sleep, how long will they slumber?
The main line experts will string together a few facts in hopes of the audience connecting the dots and drawing the only possible conclusion.
But the masses want to be entertained, not informed.
A full length feature docudrama based on the hadith and sira would go a long way to get things started. The expense and threat of violence involved are major hurdles. Will anyone jump them??
The Quran is the absolute word of Allah and is cast in concrete, and it contains the message of hate, supremacy, and intolerance that justifies jihad, hence Islam can never be reformed, and must be chucked via apostasy, like Hirsi Ali did. Too bad that she pines for another way, but sorry, there is none, because if you don’t do what Allah commands he’ll find someone else who will. The only way to reform Islam is via a Great Muslim Apostasy and the permanent taking away of the Quran from children. She should back my Winslow Plan for Defeating Islam and work to throw the bums out in Europe and the U.S. and replace them with new ones who are on our team.