Ayaan Hirsi Ali Speaks at Harvard

And Miss Kelly was there:

The Q&A afterwards demonstrated the forces that Ayaan is working against. Most questions were to her were fairly hostile: How can an atheist reform Islam? What is your agenda? Why are you speaking about Islam when you are not a theologian? Isn't what you're doing extreme and dangerous and how is it serving the cause? Why should a Muslim listen to you? Aren't you setting up a straw man argument, saying that Muslims are either good Muslims or they're Osama bin Laden? Why are you only harping about Islam? What about the Hindu texts?

Ayaan was unflappable and graceful in her responses."I speak about Islamic texts because that is what I know. Religion is public, ideas are public. It is necessary and urgent to review, revise, and discuss Islam as a body of ideas. It is time to examine the links between reliigon and values."

Muslims choose to not hear Miss Ali because she is an apostate (see Wafa Sultan on al-Jazeera). They can't stomach a former Muslim taking an outsiders view on Islam and not liking what she sees. They are further incensed because Miss Ali is a woman.

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