Hirsi Ali and her ilk (the habitual drunkard Christopher Hitchens comes to mind) are through-and-through authoritarians who hide behind rhetoric about the Enlightenment and the “War on Terror” to push their dark and apocalyptic ideology of a total war against Islam and Muslims.

Just as the classic fascists opposed democracy because they believed it incapable of resisting the evil ideology of Bolshevism, the Islamophobic neo-fascists believe that democracy cannot resist Islamism.

Honestly, we are entering into some sort of Orwellian universe when dealing with people like Ms. Ali: the only way to defeat alleged tyranny is to embrace it; the only way to stop alleged violent reactionary fundamentalism is to become even more violent, reactionary, and fundamentalist. Such logic (or illogic) is horrifying and we all know the ultimate end of such thinking.

The sad thing is that this woman has been given a wide platform in the West to spout her deluded malarkey without the slightest challenge. All one has to do is read her attack on Erdogan of Turkey as being the second coming of Khomeini to see how intellectually shallow this woman is, yet those looking for any angle to attack Islam and Muslims have given her a platform and she is perceived as credible because of her status as an “ex-Muslim.”

I think it was the late Norman Mailer, a wise old man, who observed that the logic end for democracies is authoritarianism and totalitarianism. With Hirsi Ali we can see the garb of democracy being used to take us in that direction.

I don’t believe she does, After reading parts of her book and listening to her a public lectures, it is immediatly clear that she is not the author of words attributed to her, rather she is a empty vessel.

Her public utterences are pedestrian, she has difficulty with english idioms, her grammer is bad and her ideas are childlike.

The author of caged virgin does a better job, it has obviously been ghost written.

Hirsi Ali, is what Islamic scholars describe as someone who has been educated beyond the limits of their intellect, and she hasn’t been particularly well educated.

She will use whatever instrument that is available against Muslims, whether it is liberty, or fascism or even military dictatorship.

I would like to see someone debate her and interrogate her ideas.

What Ali does not understand is that liberty allows one to express ones deeply cherished ideas, but she does not appear to have any to express (or more correctly she has a mish-mash of other peoples ideas which she has been told to express).

The irony for Ali is that she believes that she has escaped “islamic intellectual servitude” only to become an empty vessel in the service of another set of (contradictory) beliefs that she clearly does not fully understand.