Who knows if they speak truth or seek fame or revenge, but the stories these women tell are pretty serious.
Caution!
"The Senate is about to hear from two of the worst possible “experts” on Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Nomani, who typically refer to themselves as proponents of Muslim “reform,” will testify at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing on “Ideology and Terror: Understanding the Tools, Tactics, and Techniques of Violent Extremism.” This apparently only refers to extremism of the Muslim variety—one wonders when we will get a hearing on the alt-right—and the presence of Hirsi Ali and Nomani sends a disturbing message about the motivations of the committee’s Republican members.
Let’s start with Hirsi Ali. In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center included her on a list of anti-Muslim extremists for her statements about Islam. Islam, she has claimed, is a “destructive, nihilistic cult of death.”"
"She has urged its defeat by the West and asserted that it is “not interested in peace.” Once a Dutch MP for the conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, she briefly lost her Dutch citizenship for lying on her asylum application. She is now a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution."
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/143262/senate-hear-two-worst-possible-experts-islam
This lady seems little better than an alt-right activist to me.
"Hirsi Ali and Nomani aren’t reliable witnesses, and their extreme views ought to disqualify them from any platform dependent on expertise. On Wednesday, they’ll simply tell Senate Republicans exactly what they want to hear about Islam. It won’t be factual, but for Republicans, it won’t matter. "
"What the fatwa? 2 women activists testify on Capitol Hill about the extremist ideology ‘within the House of Islam’"
[As reported by one of the two women giving testimony.]
Asra Q. Nomani and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, both supporting Muslim reform, will speak about the roots of terrorism at a U.S. Senate hearing. Here’s what they’ll say
Asra Q. Nomani
06.13.17
"As policymakers, pundits and journalists continue to scratch their heads to understand the “root cause” of the terrorism inflicted by Muslim militants in Manchester and London, Somali-born human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and I will bear witness at a U.S. Senate hearing to a difficult and painful truth: a dawah, or evangelizing, of an extremist ideology from within the House of Islam inspires terrorism.
And women and girls, like Australian Candice Hedge, 31, are among the first of its victims. When one of the recent London Bridge attackers plunged a knife in Hedge’s throat, he yelled, “This is for Allah.”
On Wednesday, Ayaan, the author of a new monograph, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter It (Hoover, 2017), will tell lawmakers on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, “Insisting that radical Islamists have ‘nothing to do with Islam’ has led U.S. policymakers to commit numerous strategic errors since 9/11.” “It cannot be said often enough that the United States is not at war with Islam or with Muslims,” she will say, but we are battling extremists who “pose a direct threat to our civil and political liberties.”"
There are always two sides to the story, or more sides.
"Bill Maher and Fox News’s Muslim feminism: How Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Nomani embrace the soft Islamophobia of Western expectations"
Hannity loves their criticism of Islam [But Hannit also spews lots of BS.], NPR their personal triumph [But NPR may be allowing their liberal beliefs to cloud their judgement.]. But two voices must not define modern Muslims [This guy gets it. 2 voices condemning 1.6BILLION?]
Nathan Lean
"If Hirsi Ali is one of the West’s more visible figures advocating Islamic reform, the former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani, who has reemerged in recent months with soft-ish critiques of the religion, is not far behind her. Their trajectories are similar: Immigrants raised in traditional Muslim homes, worn by matrimonial woes and weakened by the murder of dear colleagues; compelled to document their agonies in films and books, broaching projects of reform that are spurned by the very group of people they seek to change."
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"Institutional buy-in is a key ingredient of Hirsi Ali and Nomani’s influence. As universities, think tanks, and media outlets extend their platforms, an arena of moral certitude is established that reinforces their narrative of an Islam-West divide, and thus grows the idea that the Muslim community should join the rest of the freethinking and edified world.
The two are propped up by the plush New England cushion of Ivy League schools. For Hirsi Ali, it’s Harvard University that furnishes an academic veneer. The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs lists her as an “expert” fellow whose research focuses on Islam and the West. For Nomani, it’s Yale, where she served as a journalism fellow in 2005, before her move to lead the “Pearl Project” at Georgetown two years later. Hirsi Ali also enjoys the backing of the Council on Foreign Relations, of which she is a member, and the American Enterprise Institute."
As I read these two, admittedly quickly and very briefly, they are the Don Quixote type people who will joust with the windmill of Islam, and lose.
Could anyone change Catholicism this much or Judaism or Buddhism or any other major religion? Nope.
"The message of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Asra Nomani, and their troupe of fellow reformists presents to Americans and Europeans an opportunity to confirm their place in the global hierarchy of good values, and reinforce the woeful plight of Muslims who, in their view, would do well to adapt a verse from Psalms: Taste and see that the West is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in it.
It’s a variation of the words in the Book of Matthew, though, that best sum up this group of activists: “Watch out for false prophets. For they come to you in sheep’s clothing, but they’re not sheep at all.”"
