Ayaan Hirsi Ali Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/ayaan-hirsi-ali/ My take on our world Thu, 06 Apr 2017 06:34:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png Ayaan Hirsi Ali Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/ayaan-hirsi-ali/ 32 32 The Cancellation of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Trip to Australia and New Zealand https://www.heatherhastie.com/cancellation-ayaan-hirsi-alis-trip-australia-new-zealand/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/cancellation-ayaan-hirsi-alis-trip-australia-new-zealand/#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2017 05:37:32 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3919 joint post by Jerry Coyne and Heather Hastie   New Zealand is dealing with the tail-end of Cyclone Debbie at the moment. (It made a huge mess of north-west Australia recently.) There’s very heavy rain all across the North Island and the north of the South Island. Several places are receiving a month’s worth of […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/cancellation-ayaan-hirsi-alis-trip-australia-new-zealand/feed/ 39 SPLC Lies About Maajid Nawaz. Again. https://www.heatherhastie.com/splc-lies-maajid-nawaz/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/splc-lies-maajid-nawaz/#comments Sat, 04 Mar 2017 01:09:52 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3752 You may remember my posts late last year about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) ‘Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’. Here are the links: Why Maajid Nawaz Shouldn’t be in SPLC’s ‘Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’ Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali Shouldn’t be in SPLC’s ‘Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’ SPLC Responds to my Complaint re ‘Field Guide to […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/splc-lies-maajid-nawaz/feed/ 15 SPLC Responds to my Complaint re ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’ https://www.heatherhastie.com/splc-responds-to-my-complaint-re-field-guide-to-anti-muslim-extremists/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/splc-responds-to-my-complaint-re-field-guide-to-anti-muslim-extremists/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:25:30 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3098 On 25 October the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists‘. The guide includes a list of fifteen people, two of whom have caused a great deal of controversy – Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ahnaf Kalam launched a Change.org petition a week ago to have their names removed […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/splc-responds-to-my-complaint-re-field-guide-to-anti-muslim-extremists/feed/ 34 Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali Shouldn’t be on SPLC’s ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’ https://www.heatherhastie.com/why-ayann-hirsi-ali-shouldnt-be-on-splcs-field-guide-to-anti-muslim-extremists/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/why-ayann-hirsi-ali-shouldnt-be-on-splcs-field-guide-to-anti-muslim-extremists/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2016 01:26:53 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3080 On 25 October the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists‘. The guide includes a list of fifteen people, two of whom have caused a great deal of controversy – Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A Change.org petition was launched by Ahnaf Kalam to have their names removed from […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/why-ayann-hirsi-ali-shouldnt-be-on-splcs-field-guide-to-anti-muslim-extremists/feed/ 44 Why Maajid Nawaz Shouldn’t be in SPLC’s ‘Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’ https://www.heatherhastie.com/nick-cohen-adds-his-voice-to-the-defence-of-maajid-nawaz/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/nick-cohen-adds-his-voice-to-the-defence-of-maajid-nawaz/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2016 01:44:23 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3062 Most of you will have heard about the outrageous action of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently. On 25 October they produced a Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. Just producing a list of people to hate is bad enough, especially in a climate when anyone labelled an “anti-Muslim extremist” has their life put at […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/nick-cohen-adds-his-voice-to-the-defence-of-maajid-nawaz/feed/ 45 Jeff Sparrow Says Atheism Needs to be Saved from Dawkins and Harris https://www.heatherhastie.com/jeff-sparrow-says-atheism-needs-to-be-saved-from-dawkins-and-harris/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/jeff-sparrow-says-atheism-needs-to-be-saved-from-dawkins-and-harris/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:06:46 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1772 Back in mid-September I did a post called ‘Is New Atheism a Cult?’ The discussion is still going on – so far there are 336 comments. A few days ago a link was posted there by a commenter to an Alternet article by Guardian journalist Jeff Sparrow called ‘We Can Save Atheism From the New […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/jeff-sparrow-says-atheism-needs-to-be-saved-from-dawkins-and-harris/feed/ 92 The War Against Boko Haram https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-war-against-boko-haram/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-war-against-boko-haram/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2015 04:47:10 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=747 Two days ago Vice News released a short documentary filmed in March. Their reporter Kaj Larsen was embedded with the Nigerian Army as they battled Boko Haram and freed the town of Bama from occupation. In an attempt to increase his popularity leading up to the election, President Jonathan had finally given the army the […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-war-against-boko-haram/feed/ 13 Free Speech is not Hate Speech https://www.heatherhastie.com/free-speech-is-not-hate-speech/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/free-speech-is-not-hate-speech/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:00:25 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=407 When free speech is attacked, we all suffer. So often in the past, those who have been attacked for speaking out haven’t attracted the support they should have either because of what they have to say, or who they are. We have allowed our opinion of the speech of those we don’t agree with to […]

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