A very interesting article. Ayaan Hirsi Ali says things that many Muslims would like to speak about but do not. I think many Muslim converts can relate to her as well.
Excerpt:
Her critique of Islam as a “moral framework not compatible with the modern westernised way of living” is rooted in a critique of her family, her father’s unbending will and particularly her mother, a woman who she says was pulled apart by the contradictions of maintaining her faith in a modern society and an identity crisis from which Hirsi Ali herself suffered. (She speaks six languages – English, Somali, Arabic, Swahili, Amharic and Dutch.) The phrasing she uses is startlingly direct. When she writes that “violence is an integral part” of Islamic social discipline, or says in our interview that “Muhammad’s example is terrible, don’t follow it”, it is deliberately, almost narcissistically provocative, the result, one imagines, of a siege mentality and the defensive self-assurance that goes with it. To Hirsi Ali, the act of speaking out, of saying what no one else will say, seems at this stage to be almost a pathology; to override all other considerations.
Read more here -> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/08/ayaan-hirsi-ali-interview
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