""In
the speech, flagged
by the website Loonwatch,
Hirsi Ali noted that she herself appeared in Breivik’s 1,500-word manifesto
(Breivik reprinted a European right-wing article saying
Hirsi Ali should win the Nobel Peace Prize). While she denounced Breivik’s views
as an “abhorrant” form of “neo-fascism,” she then postulated that Breivik was
driven to violence because his militant anti-multicultural views were not given
a fair airing in the public discourse. After
speaking about how the “advocates of silence” repress discussion about radical
Islamism, Hirsi Ali said:
Fourthly and finally, that one man who killed 77 people in Norway, because he fears that Europe will be overrun by Islam, may have cited the work of those who speak and write against political Islam in Europe and America – myself among them – but he does not say in his 1500 page manifesto that it was these people who inspired him to kill. He says very clearly that it was the advocates of silence. Because all outlets to express his views were censored, he says, he had no other choice but to use violence [emphasis NOT added].
Fourthly and finally, that one man who killed 77 people in Norway, because he fears that Europe will be overrun by Islam, may have cited the work of those who speak and write against political Islam in Europe and America – myself among them – but he does not say in his 1500 page manifesto that it was these people who inspired him to kill. He says very clearly that it was the advocates of silence. Because all outlets to express his views were censored, he says, he had no other choice but to use violence [emphasis NOT added].
[....] In
a 2007
interview with Reason Magazine,
Hirsi Ali called for Islam to be “defeated.” The interviewer asked: “Don’t you
mean defeating radical Islam?”
Hirsi Ali replied bluntly: “No. Islam, period. Once it’s defeated, it can mutate
into something peaceful. It’s very difficult to even talk about peace now.
They’re not interested in peace.”". (thanks Redouane)
