The times are shifting.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali meets Tommy Robinson.
Notice the first thirty seconds of embrace - and her unequivocal acknowledgment of him and his work.
An embrace and a statement that was unthinkable just five years ago.
And ten years ago would have removed anyone from access everywhere - including deletion of social media profiles across Europe, if you merely wrote Tommy's name in a post.
There are not many beside Ayaan in understanding - and ability to express in a balanced way - the threat that Islam poses to Western civilization.
So it is a beautiful meeting between two worlds that finally unite in mutual reverence for the other's sacrifice.
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Krisztina wrote by coincidence a post on X - with nearly 26,000 positive acknowledgments - the other day about her, if you don't know her. It follows below.
It is time to wake up, if you are European with a Western-oriented heart. ❤️🔥🪽
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali - let us talk a bit about her.
She is one of the most courageous voices of our time.
She was born in 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia, into a strict Muslim family. As a little girl she was subjected to female genital mutilation. She grew up between Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya under a strict Islamic upbringing.
In 1992 she fled to Holland to escape an arranged marriage - she jumped off a train in Europe and sought asylum.
Here she learned Dutch, took a degree in political science and began working with integration.
She lost faith in Islam. She became an atheist and later converted to Christianity in 2023.
She saw clearly how Islam oppresses women - forced marriages, honor killings, female genital mutilation, polygamy and the total absence of freedom.
In 2004 she made the short film Submission together with Theo van Gogh. The film depicted violence against women in Islam.
Shortly after, Theo van Gogh was murdered in broad daylight in Amsterdam by a radical Muslim. A death threat against Ayaan was pinned to his chest: she was next.
She received death threats for years and has had to live under police protection since 2002.
She was elected to the Dutch parliament for the liberal party, where she fought for Muslim women's rights and against the illusions of multiculturalism.
She has written books like Infidel, Nomad and Heretic, where she directly criticizes Islam's core - not just "extremism", but the ideology itself.
Today she lives in the USA, married to the historian Niall Ferguson, and continues her work - among other things through her foundation (AHA Foundation).
She warns the West against mass immigration from Muslim countries, parallel societies and the self-deception that claims Islam can be reformed without confronting its texts and its history.
Like Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has paid a high price for speaking truth. Rushdie was persecuted for a book. She was persecuted for showing the reality in her own life and in the lives of millions of Muslim women.
She is not "Islamophobic". She is a former Muslim who has seen the system from the inside and refuses to be silent. She points to the uncomfortable truth: that Western values like freedom of speech, equality and individual freedom are incompatible with classical Sharia Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is living proof that the ideals of the Enlightenment are still worth defending.
She put her life at stake to say what most dare not: that the problem is not only "extremists", but a religion that in its core oppresses women and rejects criticism.
She deserves respect from us all - not because she is "controversial", but because she refuses to lie in order to be politically correct. In a time when many bend to threats, she continues to speak truth.
It is that kind of human being who keeps the West's soul alive. Thank you, Ayaan. ❤️🔥🪽✝️
