Unlike the small, wretched men and women who run the Dutch government, Denmark recognizes its responsibility to reject appeasement and defend human liberty: Hirsi Ali Offered a Safe Haven in Denmark – The Danish government is ready to invite Ayaan…

Here it is in danish:

Patel needs to explain the true meaning of Islam to the misunderstanders who want to kill him – not to me.
forest on October 15, 2007 at 5:04 PM

Exactly right. His article seems designed to convince non-muslims that they misunderstand Islam and should not believe all the negative things someone like Ayaan has to say. Meanwhile, he has almost nothing to say about how the fundamentalist have it wrong after he just admitted they want to kill him. Aparently no one understands Islam. I guess it is must be a nebulous philosophy

Holland…not so much.

Denmark rocks! (got a little Viking in my blood, too)

I gotta go visit it someday soon, before the Religion of Peace wipes it off the map or something…

Frozen Tex on October 15, 2007 at 2:00 PM

Denmark won’t dare fall or be wiped off the map and today I’m proud I live here. I was thinking the danish government should invite her and now they have. Mikkelsen isn’t just a pretty face anymore.

As for Patel, he’s right about one thing:

I think the people who want Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s head are cretins. They are dangerous to all of us. They would have my head and the heads of all the progressive Muslims I know in an instant.

The rest of his article consists of unsupported charges of “hyperbole” etc. If it’s hyperbole, then why are there so many “extremists” who not only want to kill Hirsi Ali, but progressive Muslims like Patel as well? Patel needs to explain the true meaning of Islam to the misunderstanders who want to kill him – not to me.

She is repulsive to my Muslim faith and my Enlightenment sensibilities, but those same traditions cause me to wish her no harm.

And he’d be the only one not issuing a Fatwa.

Is he sincerely trying to tell me that his Muslim faith has a tradition of turning the other cheek? What’s the point of Denmark’s offer? Schmuck!

This is a great offer by Denmark, and it should be offered by all western countries, while the salafists should be given the choice to leave or face a firing squad.

I gotta go visit it someday soon, before the Religion of Peace wipes it off the map or something…

But that’s irrational (i.e. contra The Age of Reason).

Somebody’s trying to blow smoke up the West’s butt.

But, the Constitution is still not a suicide pact.

Newsweek, however, is.

Islam is anti-Constitutional, and anti-Bill of Rights and anti-The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

However much its lying apologists and disinformation pimps pretend otherwise.

Ms. Ali, often and ludicrously called a “defender of the West”, has certainly mastered one of its central elements: capitalism. She has learned to make a living from the fact that her life is threatened. It is a lucrative though precarious path, as recent events make clear.

My favorite quote – why has Mr. Patel used “ludicrously”? What is ludicrous in defending capitalism? This should tell you everything about Newsweek.

Sorry Denmark, we love you guys for defending Freedom of Speech and all that but Ayaan is OURS! You can’t have her.

Tony737 on October 15, 2007 at 10:52 AM

First thing which came to my mind Tony. If only our government would have their act together. I’d like it if she’d become a U.S. citizen quickly and then shuttle btw. here and Denmark, or wherever she’d please.

The idea of sanctuary cities form the wild ones is preposterous. The world should be protected from them. Mr. Patel – Enlightenment is progressive, and in some parts of the world, or in some religions, it actually did progress. Re. some parts, though, look at the Zimbabwe link in headlines, to see how little, or the 3-year old bride in Afghanistan, or the mutilating, raping, stoning of women, behadings, cutting off of limbs, or, or, or…Where is Newsweek and its ilk on all of that?

Newsweek is hardly an example of fair-and-balanced ANYTHING as far as Muslims go.

Always Right on October 15, 2007 at 11:13 AM

Needed fixing, Always Right.

if Ayaan Hirsi Ali were to group a continent and its races together and demonize them

Patel is right that our leftists would consider that “racism” at best, and “cultural genocide” at worst. They already accuse us of that when we oppose Islamism, under the perverse notion that thinking that Brown People are just as capable of greatness as White People, given the right set of values to guide them there, is “racism”. In reality, it is their own racism that presumes values based on ethnicity, and considers people with darker skin pigmentation but “white” values to be “inauthentic” or “race traitors”.

MLK’s dream has become a nightmare Bizzaro-World version.

If the religious skeptics of the various Enlightenments did not write as scathingly about Christianity as Ali does about Islam, it is partly because those earlier writers did not have latitude, socially, to do so. Some of Hume’s most skeptical writings were only published posthumously. It’s hard to think that he would exempt say Baptists from his criticism but say Catholics and Presbyterians gotta go as Patel suggests Ali ought to do as well. This does not mean Ali et al. are correct, but that they have a better claim to exemplifying important aspects of Enlightenment thinking than Patel admits.

The Monster on October 15, 2007 at 10:46 AM

Having read one Robert Spencer book, I can’t agree with you or Patel. His “enlightenment” is completely at odds with his Islam, and the only way he can reconcile the two is to ignore the reality of Islam’s scripture, teachings, history, and current status in the world.

Has Europe really gone this far over the bend? They now need to establish “free cities” where people won’t be murdered for expressing free speach?

Newsweek is hardly an example of fair-and-balanced ANYTHING as far as Muslims go.

Or have you forgotten the Korans supposedly flushed down the lube at Gitmo. How many lives were lost in THAT little bogus fiasco.

Sorry Denmark, we love you guys for defending Freedom of Speech and all that but Ayaan is OURS! You can’t have her.

Tony737 on October 15, 2007 at 10:52 AM

After the whole Koran-flushing incident at Pace, are you sure we defend freedom of speech more than they do?

I am glad to see countries step up and offer to help Ayaan. She may be a crucial catalyst in getting Europe to wake up to its creeping sharia problem.

And that’s the problem. Islam isn’t what the moderates say it is, until they start killing the Islamists for being apostates, so that people will be as afraid of the moderates as they are the Islamists. But then the moderates won’t be moderates anymore.

Takeaway: “[S]he’s got her story, and she’s taking it to the bank.”

Do I think she might be capitalizing on her notoriety? Sure…why not?

Do I think she’s anything less than sincere in her beliefs? Not a chance.