298: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamism is the enemy we dare not name

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali – writer, activist and author of Prey: Immigration, Islam and the Erosion of Women’s Rights – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ayaan and Brendan discuss the hidden dangers of multiculturalism, the UK’s free-speech crisis and the rise of the Islamo-left.

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0:00.0	I mean is it even realistic to think that Islam can take over America? Right now it seems beyond science fiction, but it doesn't seem that way in France or in Belgium or in Sweden or even to a certain degree in Britain.
0:21.0	And these things has to do with just the sheer determination and how well organized they are.
0:27.0	Please let's fight these forces.
0:29.0	We can do it only through freedom of speech.
0:31.0	So freedom of speech gives us the ability to revive and
0:34.2	restore our institutions and then to vote and to kick them out of power.
0:42.3	Hello welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill and my
0:46.2	special guest this week I am her see Ali I am welcome to the show
0:50.3	Brendan thank you very much nice Nice to see you again.
0:53.0	You too, it's always good to have you on. I feel like there are a million things I want to talk to you about, things that have been happening in the world.
1:00.0	I guess I want to start by talking about freedom of speech because in the week that we are talking you've written a brilliant piece for the spectator on freedom of speech and particularly on the crisis of freedom of speech here in the UK
1:14.4	which is an issue close to my heart as well and I want to dig down into some of the
1:19.0	points you make about the creep of censorship through Britain and through much of the Western world in fact
1:24.7	but I guess I'll start by asking you how bad you think things are getting in the
1:31.0	British context in relation to freedom of speech but also I guess more broad are we really in a
1:33.0	freedom of speech but also I guess more broadly in the West
1:36.0	are we really in a dark moment when it comes to this fundamental liberty?
1:40.0	I think we are at a crossroads where we really have to make a choice and what I hope is the silent majority will stand up and say we don't want this anymore.
1:52.0	There is a real crisis. I came to the west in 1992, so it's about 30 years ago.
1:57.0	It's a little over 30 years ago. And the issue of free speech was completely settled.
2:02.0	Legally speaking, you know anything anything that had to do with defamation, libel, perjury,
2:07.7	incitement, all of that stuff was taken care of.
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