Aqoul on Ayaan Hirsi-Ali

Matthew Hogan at ‘Aqoul on Ayaan Hirsi-Ali:

Monty Python’s Life of Brian meets real life as this woman gets to speak in public as if she knows what she is talking about. Yes, Saracen-slayer Ayaan Hirsi Ali was speaking at the National Press Club. I accidentally heard it on the radio; I didn’t know who it was at first but the stream of simple-minded inanities about Islam and the West made it easy to narrow down. No transcript available, only memory, but I had to belly-laugh and just about stop driving while she explained how Islam is rigidly fixed in theology since it takes its Scriptures as literal and as divinely authored unlike, um, Christianity. For in the Christian Scriptures, she explained, the books are not fixed as being written by God, but are said to be written “by people . . . like Paul . . . and Deuteronomy.” ( I kid you not, folks.) Yes, she is the one who will guide the liberation of civilizations and insight into religious progress. O, why did I have to be a Monty Python fan?