A Dutch court may have unwittingly issued a death warrant for Somali born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali last week. This, because the court dismissed a cease and desist complaint Islamic fundamentalists filed to prevent her from airing anymore of their dirty laundry.
Their complaint stemmed from the release last August of a film that Hirsi Ali wrote and co-produced with social gadfly and controversial director, Theo van Gogh (yes, of that Van Gogh family). That film, Submission, exposes the rampant physical abuse in the daily lives of Muslim women, including beatings, incest and sexual abuse.
In particularly provocative scenes, it features images of Koranic verses inscribed on semi-naked and horribly bruised Muslim women. The film also rails against Dutch authorities whose indifference to these crimes betrays their religious and cultural ignorance, if not bias.
Upon the film’s release, Muslim clerics immediately decreed it blasphemous and an insult to Islam. And, within short order, fanatics assassinated van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam and left a threatening note in Arabic for Hirsi Ali stabbed into his chest. Naturally, authorities assumed she was next and placed her under 24/7 security protection.
However, if Islamic fundamentalists that hoped killing of van Gogh would force Hirsi Ali herself into submission, they were wrong. Because she not only continued to speak out (calling Islam a primitive religion and the Koran a text which sanctions abuse against women), but also announced earlier this year plans for 2 sequels to Submission.
In fact, it was this announcement that sent the clerics on their misguided mission to the Courts. This, after Dutch security prevented them from executing Islamic justice against Hirsi Ali in the streets.
Therefore, like their fatwa (death sentence) against Salman Rusdie for his Satanic Verses, Mulim clerics have issued one against Hirsi Ali for her Submission. They are explicitly exhorting Islamic acolytes to win favor with Allah by killing her.
Below is just one of the many Koranic verses the fundamentalists cite to justify this latest fatwa:
4.34 Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them….
Nevertheless, Hirsi Ali remains defiant. She has said that “either I stop my work, or I learn to live with the feeling that I’m not safe [and] I’m not stopping.” Muslim women everywhere who continue to suffer beatings, rape, and genital mutilations in silence can be thankful for her now very prominent voice.
Yet Hirsi Ali must be utterly disgusted with high-profile feminists in America. Because they are allowing rank partisanship to prevent them from adding their authoritative voices to First Lady Laura Bush’s clarion call for the liberation of Muslim women all over the world.
May Allah protect you Hirsi Ali. And may the liberated women of the world find enlightened common cause with your struggle…before it’s too late!
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