In my previous post Creed and Conscience, I wrote the following about Hirsi Ali's remark that she would let her son choose his religion when he's old enough to decide:
If she has spent her whole adult life denouncing Islam, and writing about its evils, then why would she want her son to "choose" Islam? It is as though she's hedging her bets, and doesn't want the responsibility of influence a child's life into nihilism. Let him do that for himself!She is not fighting an existential fight, but what looks like a personal one. She spent all these years fighting Islam, compromising herself and endangering her colleagues in order to escape Islam, and the best she can come up with is that she will let her son decide his religion (or no religion), and that she's "hoping it does not happen" that he "choose" Islam. For this declared atheist, the freedom of choice of her son is more important than his spiritual integrity. And this is her fatal problem, making her a dangerous spokesman for the West's survival. She has no armor with which to combat this combative religion other than "freedom of choice."
If her son becomes one of those Muslims living in a Western city, making demands for mosques, Islamic schools, special dietary regulations for Muslims in restaurants and shops, and the myriad of other cultural changes that Islam has been demanding in Western cities, and making her particular Western city into the one that she left behind in Somalia, will she still say "he is free to choose his religion?" What if one day she reads about him in the news, and finds he'd strapped bombs to his chest in the name of Allah?
What an obtuse, and dangerous, woman. It is important that we point out these inconsistencies, rather than naively promote her as the saviour of the West.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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