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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali cancels Australia tour over 'security concerns'



    Controversial author Ayaan Hirsi Ali


    A former Dutch MP and prominent critic of conservative Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has cancelled a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand citing security concerns.

    The Somali-born author was to appear on Australian TV on Monday before starting her tour, titled "Hero of Heresy".
    But she pulled out due to "a number of reasons including security concerns", event organiser Think Inc said.

    Ms Hirsi Ali has faced death threats in the past.

    "[She] hopes to be able to return to Australia in the not too distant future," Think Inc said in a statement.
    About 2,000 tickets had been sold for the speaking events in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.

    Who is Ayaan Hirsi Ali?
    She was granted asylum in the Netherlands in 1992, and was elected as an MP in 2003.
    Ms Hirsi Ali rose to international attention in 2004 as the writer of a controversial film on violence against Muslim women, Submission, after her collaborator, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered by a radical Islamist.

    Having received repeated death threats over her challenges to Islam's treatment of women, Ms Hirsi Ali spent time living under 24-hour police guard.

    She then moved to the United States, where she has maintained a high profile.

    In an article for the Hoover Institution last month, Ms Hirsi Ali described what she called "political Islam" as being not just a religion but "a political ideology, a legal order, and in many ways also a military doctrine associated with the campaigns of the Prophet Muhammad".

    Profile: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Was her visit controversial?
    Nearly 400 people had signed an online petition opposing Ms Hirsi Ali's visit to Australia and New Zealand.

    "Against a backdrop of increasing global Islamophobia, Hirsi-Ali's divisive rhetoric simply serves to increase hostility and hatred towards Muslims," the petition said.

    Protests had been planned at locations where she was speaking, and people who bought tickets were told their bags would be searched.
    Think Inc said all ticketholders would receive refunds.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali cancels Australia tour over 'security concerns' - BBC News
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    I read her book, Infidel a few years ago.

    Great book.

    Everyone should read it.

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    She's a very brave woman and needs a lot of support in her mission.

    Muslim women's emancipation is really the answer to reforming Islam. There are small groups of Muslimas in UK who are doggedly opposing Sharia law being applied in a completely mysoginist manner, especially in cases of inheritance and of course, marriage and divorce.

    What Aayan Hirsi Ali's doing is taking the matter further, by identifying and crusading against the menfolk who oppose upsetting the status quo, as they'll lose out badly in the comfort stakes.

    One only has to read any of the Asian or Muslim websites to see that critical thinking and questioning of past and current Muslim and cultural values is slowly starting to happen, spearheaded by women.

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    400 online petitioners stopped her tour.

    How? Did they threaten the Oz and Kiwi governments with violence and disruption?

    Why weren't they told to pull their necks in instead of capitulating to the blackmail instead?

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    One would have thought that Australia would have been one of the safest places for her to visit.

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    she still believes in god

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    Which version?

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    she still believes in god
    When she wrote "Infidel" she did not.

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    Where and when did she use that term?

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