But any comparison made of Hirsi Ali with Islamists is disgusting. Her struggle to be free of any dogmatically proscribed inhibitions is one waged by words and reason; for the Islamist defenders of the faith she renounced, their weapon is violence and murder.
In a democracy the persuasive power of the word cannot be fully dissociated from the military power that comes to the winning party at election time. If Hirsi Ali is “heard” by enough voters, then a more hawkish party will take power and even more Muslims may find Western bombs raining down on them.
The problem is, the world Muslims face today could wipe Islam and every Muslim off the face of the earth within a matter of a few years, tops
This is crass nonsense from a swaggering Western supremacist but it is a sentiment that can bring genuine fear into the hearts of ordinary Muslims.
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It has been argued that misogyny is correlated with population pressures so that modern methods of fertility control are women’s chief saviour in the long term. This is yet another area of failed reciprocity: Western (and Chinese) women are taking up this option but Muslim women are not. If a woman has seven sons she can afford to sacrifice two or three to suicide martyrdom in the cause of Allah. If she chooses the path of uncontrolled fertility she forfeits the right to whinge about war which is its inevitable ultimate consequence.
