Fellow Human,
Your attempt to discredit Ayaan Hirsi Ali message based upon her lies in obtaining Dutch citizenship are a distraction from the main issue and are unworthy of any free thinker. To paraphrase a contributor to another site, Martin Luther King stole his thesis presentation and cheated on his wife, however this does not mean that he wasn't a great moral/political leader. As Jesus was supposed to have said, let he/she without sin cast the first stone. Those who have never told a lie, feel free to criticise Ayaan Hirsi Ali, though I can't imagine there will be too many in this group. Her central tenet is that the nature of Islam itself, as directed in the Koran and through Sharia law, binds Muslims inextricably to the 7th century. In demanding submission from its adherents, Islam denies anything other than a literal interpretation of the Koran. And this literal interpretation is where people like Osama Bin Laden get their authority. He doesn't spout ridiculous interpretations of the Koran, his quotes are literal and they provide succor to those committing acts of terror. Attack her arguments with reason and you may convince me, attack the women personally and I am forced to believe that in the battle of ideas you have no firm ground to stand on

MLK,
Do you actually have the gall to suggest that there is some kind of moral equivalence between forcing a woman to wear the proscribed clothing, which they do in Islam and the under dressing of women in the West. Women who don't have the correct attire can be imprisoned or flogged in some Islamic countries where Sharia law exists. The idea that this is comparable with the societal pressure which some women suffer in the west is outrageous and is an example of the way that leftists and feminists excuse their abandoning of women in Islam. This is cultural relativism at its worst.

Paul