1. Comment #92081 by villageidiot on November 29, 2007 at 8:59 pm

Ayaan is my heroin; wait i think i've said that before.

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2. Comment #92090 by maton100 on November 29, 2007 at 9:25 pm

Everybody get ready for tomorrow night when Dinesh D'Souza's D'Dumbass attempts to debate Daniel Dennett. Even Bobby Knight won't be able to save D'Souza from this one.

http://thestubborncurmudgeon.blogspot.com

Kudos to Ayaan!

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3. Comment #92091 by papavb on November 29, 2007 at 9:27 pm

I hope you mean heroine, one little letter can make you into a needlewhore.

anyways, I agree wholeheartedly, more things like this need to be said on tv, by people who aren't reticent out of fear.

more power to her

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4. Comment #92112 by Theocrapcy on November 29, 2007 at 10:18 pm

Look at this world we live in.

When are we going to take back our planet from these fucking psychotic freaks? When are western leaders going to have the courage to face this disease head on?

COuntries who join the EU are required to raise their standards on human rights, equality, and freedom of expression. Its about time we extended this to countries wanting to be a part of the western world, and castigate entirely any nations who choose to live By bronze age myth-laws. We don't need Saudi oil, if we cut them off they would be nothing.

WE have the power to change this fucked state of affairs, its time the people of the secular west stood up to these ghouls and put them on notice!

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5. Comment #92135 by MuNky82 on November 29, 2007 at 11:22 pm

Off topic: I would just like say that since RichardDawkins.net got their media server, life became so much easier. I despised the YouTube links of old since I like to watch videos again at a later time, and "capturing" YouTube streams didn't always work well.

Thanks Josh, and of course Prof. Dawkins for starting this Oasis.

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6. Comment #92187 by villageidiot on November 30, 2007 at 2:58 am

one little letter can make you into a needlewhore

what's a needlewhore? please explain more.

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7. Comment #92194 by ridelo on November 30, 2007 at 3:16 am

Comment #92112 by Theocrapcy

We don't need Saudi oil????

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8. Comment #92206 by Lordsuhn on November 30, 2007 at 3:54 am

Comment #92112 by Theocrapcy

I understand your sentiments, but unfortunately, we still do need Saudi oil. But the more we pressure our governments to support alternative fuels, the closer we will come to being independant of oil producing countries in the middle east.

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9. Comment #92227 by Aaron on November 30, 2007 at 5:21 am

I think Ayaan Hirsi Ali's most enlightening point of view deserved much more than three minutes on this topic. Hopefully she'll get more attention here in the states soon.

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10. Comment #92235 by Dave Gilbert on November 30, 2007 at 5:44 am

Those of you outside of the UK may not be aware of this story;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AFTUX0QEBUSSZQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/11/30/wsudan130.xml

Apparently, Islam is insulted because Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher working in the Sudan, named the class's teddy bear Mohammed.

Give me a break.

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11. Comment #92257 by USA_Limey on November 30, 2007 at 6:36 am

Dave Gilbert:

There have been a number of articles posted about this story on the RD website.

Here is the first:

http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,1909,Muhammad-teddy-teacher-arrested,BBC

Second:

http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,1922,Pupil-defends-teacher-in-Muhammad-teddy-furore,Guardian

Third:

http://www.richarddawkins.net/article,1927,Teddy-teacher-jailed-in-Sudan,CNN

Come on dude, get with the program!

:-)

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12. Comment #92261 by eXcommunicate on November 30, 2007 at 6:39 am

This was a positive little interview. Too bad it wasn't more in depth. It would have been fun if Cooper also had on a raving Islamic lunatic.

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13. Comment #92271 by Dave Gilbert on November 30, 2007 at 7:18 am

USA_Limey;

Okay, think of my posting as an update then and I will try harder next time.

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14. Comment #92469 by Theocrapcy on November 30, 2007 at 2:59 pm

That's right, we DON'T need Saudi oil. We have a great big fireball in the sky that provides all the energy we will ever need. So long as we buy their oil we are allowing them to propagate their evil, misogynistic, and corruptible methods.

It's time religion and its lunatic adherents were finally put on notice. A tolerant world cannot coexist with these nutcases!

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15. Comment #92523 by Vinelectric on November 30, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Life in Saudi Arabia for women is devoid of meaning or hope. The problem is that many are so cut off from the world that they don't seem to know any better and accept the situation as the norm.

I was going to say that such misery is shocking even by the standards of West and North Africa's muslim states. That is definitely true and for this reaon the local Wahabbi-Sufi tensions are high on such topics as women's rights. However I can see that, from an Islamic point of view, the Wahabbis are closer to the real thing than are the progressive and open minded Sufis.

Depressing, isn't it?

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16. Comment #92714 by wonder on December 1, 2007 at 9:44 am

I'm surprised that she didn't point out to AC that the word "Islam" doesn't literally mean "peace" as he said. If she had pointed out that it actually means "SUBMISSION" I think it would have had a nice effect as she was talking about the way women are treated in Saudi Arabia.

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17. Comment #93069 by villageidiot on December 2, 2007 at 5:46 am

I'm surprised that she didn't point out to AC that the word "Islam" doesn't literally mean "peace" as he said. If she had pointed out that it actually means "SUBMISSION" I think it would have had a nice effect as she was talking about the way women are treated in Saudi Arabia.

Yeah, i found that really strange as well. It would seem like the most obvious thing to point out. (Does the word Islam have more than one meaning?)

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18. Comment #93492 by coquese on December 3, 2007 at 9:20 am

Islam means submission (to the will of Allah). The root of the word Islam, s-l-m, is the same root in the word salaam, meaning peace. They share the same root; the concepts of peace and submission are meant to be related.

People do commonly believe Islam means peace, so I think she was right to address that claim directly, whether or not it's completely accurate.

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19. Comment #111509 by freethnkr on January 14, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is the bravest woman in modern times. I only hope that her refuge here in the USA will allow her to speak more freely, for I am looking forward to her future (which i hope is a prosperious one, and and intellectually prosperous one for us)

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