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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "With Islam As Its Strange Bedfellow, Western Feminism Is Now A Force That Only Protects White Women”

Last night, libertarian feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali drew a capacity crowd at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The roughly 3,500 people went through tight security akin to airport security, resulting in the Somali-born former Dutch parliamentarian taking the stage an hour late. She was promptly greeted by a couple of people in the audience who shouted, “Allāhu Akbar,” or “God is Great” in Arabic. Ms. Hirsi Ali, a former-Muslim-turned-atheist who for years has received numerous death threats by jihadists, responded that she could not say “God is Great.” But she apologized for the security measures and late start. “Some people think that I should be silenced,” she told the crowd. “I thank you for giving me a platform.”