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AYAAN HIRSI ALI: On why Christians should try to convert Muslims. Plus, living under a fatwa. ?I ?

By Glenn Reynolds

AYAAN HIRSI ALI: On why Christians should try to convert Muslims. Plus, living under a fatwa. “I think, look, they can kill me physically?or I could die of a heart attack or whatever. Life is short. What they cannot kill are my ideas. The fact my books have been published and are out there?there are limits to silencing. . . . The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals. They?ve convinced themselves that the best way to do that in general is to defend the cultures that are non-white. But what they forget, and what they?re being confronted with, is that non-white cultures contain misogynistic, collectivist, tribal, gay-unfriendly and female-hostile traditions. And so they?re confused: on the one hand, they?re looking at minorities as groups they need to save and speak up for, and on the other hand, they?re confronted with the ideas and practices of individuals within those minorities that are very undemocratic and appalling, really.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 12, 2010 (boomark / email).