Ayaan Hirst Ali
There was an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the freebie magazine that comes with "Diario de Cadiz" on Sundays - even with my poor Spanish it struck me - I hope it struck other people in Cadiz Provincia as much ..
(all translations mine - no guarantee they are accurate enough to satisfy anyone I am not mis-translating for my own agenda)
"Si yo viviera ahora en cualquier communidad musulmana, seria un cadaver"If I lived in any Moslem community I would be a corpse
"Por haber abandonada la fe, por haberme rebelado, por atreverme a luchar contra la submission de las mujeres de Islam"
Because I have abandoned the faith, I have rebelled, and launched a battle against the submission of the women of Islam.
Powerful women - perish the thought that women should ever try and change anything - no wonder she gets death threats ...
"La Izquierda nos ha abandonado. Nos ha traicionda"The left have abandoned us. They have betrayed us.
"La izquierda, salvo exceptiones se ha convertido en reaccionaria. Es progresista defender un religion contraria a la vida, que trata a la mujer peor que a animales?"
The left, with some exceptions, have been converted into reactionaries. Is it progressive to defend a religion which is against life? which treats women worse than animals?
A Moslem woman speaks - and she feels betrayed by the left - and why not?
After all - some of us on "the left" still feel that women's rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and other hard won "freedoms" are still important ...
Tags: ayaan hirst ali, womens rights, islam, the silence of the left