More articles in U.S. papers about Ayaan Hirsi Ali coming to our country, this time in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hirsi Ali talks about applying Enlightenment values to critically examine Islam:
Hirsi Ali aims at Islam's heart. She insists that the beliefs and life of Islam's prophet, Muhammad, must be confronted, analyzed, and, in many respects, rejected.
At the end of the article, the reporter brings up the very interesting racial aspect of Islam, a religion that condones slavery:
In the same way, Hirsi Ali explains, she'd like to challenge the beliefs of Black Muslims in America. She finds it as unfathomable that African Americans would convert to Islam as that Jews would convert to Nazism.
"I want to tell them about Darfur," she asserts firmly. "The people in Darfur are being exterminated just because they are black. So [Islam] is also a racist doctrine... . People don't know what's going on in Saudi Arabia. All these palaces are full of black slaves! So the black community here converting to Islam is like converting voluntarily to slavery. "I think if they hear it from a black person," she says hopefully, "it will help."
Conversations in the U.S. promise to be quite different from the Netherlands. Hirsi Ali is going to mix it up! Saw this article first at Booker Rising, where Shay is on top of any and all news on AYA. I touched upon the Arab slave trade in Africans earlier here. Read the Preface of The Caged Virgin, Hirsi Ali's latest book here.
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