Ayaan Ali Hirsi: ‘We are at war with all Islam’ :: Winds of Jihad

Actually, it’s Islam that is waging war against us, ever since its inception. Yet there are too many among us who still don’t understand the nature of the beast and that this war is different from any other war ever fought. This enemy is patient and persistent, this is an enemy that knows us while we chose to ignore it at our peril. An enemy that exploits our weakness and our humanity, our political system and our multiculturalism.

An interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Last Tuesday at nightfall, as the servants of democracy fled SW1, a young Somali woman stood spotlit on a stage in Westminster. Behind her was the illuminated logo for the Centre for Social Cohesion: a white hand reaching down across England to help a brown one up; in front, an audience of some of Britain’s biggest brains — politicians, editors, academics. She drew her shawl a little closer round her shoulders, looked up and said: ‘We are not at war with “terror”, that would make no sense.’

‘Hear, hear,’ said a voice at the back. ‘Terror is just a tactic used by Islam,’ she continued. ‘We are actually at war, not just with Islamism, but with Islam itself.’

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