Here’s Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s keynote address delivered four days ago in Memphis at the American Atheists Convention. It’s a great presentation, largely highlighting the themes of her new book Heretic, which calls for a reform of Islam. The talk is 45 minutes long, followed by about 15 minutes of Q&A. Especially if you haven’t heard her talk before, do take the time to listen to this:
I am aware of certain benighted segments of the atheist blogsophere that have damned Hirsi Ali for supposedly, in this talk, dismissing the problem of Western gays and urging us to concentrately solely on the more brutal repression of gays—and of women and dissidents—under Islam. I don’t hear that in this talk; what I hear is sympathy for all oppressed people, as well as a call that we pay more attention to the dangers Islam poses for the modern world. On this I agree with
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