The next time some idiot dhimmi tells you how peaceful and benevolent the “Religion of Peace” is, consider the fate of Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former member of the Dutch Parliament and author of The Caged Virgin and Infidel. She left her birth country for the Netherlands to escape the persecution for her leaving the “faith”, her friend and co-creator of the film Submission about her experiences, Theo Van Goh was murdered by Islamic extremists, and Ali faced constant death threats as long as she stayed in Holland. So, she came to the United States for true freedom and safety — freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom from constant death threats. Gee, that didn’t last very long! From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review (h/t: Bryan @ Hot Air & Jihad Watch.)

Say what you want about your religion.

Go ahead, say anything that comes into your mind — even if you don’t agree with your minister, your priest, your rabbi. Even if you think you’re right and they’ve got it all wrong, as long as you’re not making a direct threat to someone, you can disagree or turn your back and walk away to another faith or to no faith at all.

Here, in America, it’s OK. In a land of more than 3,000 diverse religions, your right to religious liberty is a guaranteed protection under the First Amendment.

“The key in the U.S. from the beginning has been to make sure all religious groups not only understand freedoms, but connect them to their own commitment,” said Charles C. Haynes, senior scholar and director of educational programs at the First Amendment Center in Arlington, Va., and Nashville.

A community debate over religious freedom surfaced in Western Pennsylvania last week when Dutch feminist author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has lived under the threat of death for denouncing her Muslim upbringing, made an appearance at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Islamic leaders tried to block the lecture, which was sponsored through an endowment from the Frank J. and Sylvia T. Pasquerilla Lecture Series. They argued that Hirsi Ali’s attacks against the Muslim faith in her book, “Infidel,” and movie, “Submission,” are “poisonous and unjustified” and create dissension in their community.

Although university officials listened to Islamic leaders’ concerns, the lecture planned last year took place Tuesday evening under tight security, with no incidents.

Imam Fouad ElBayly, president of the Johnstown Islamic Center, was among those who objected to Hirsi Ali’s appearance.

“She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith. If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death,” said ElBayly, who came to the U.S. from Egypt in 1976.

Ali was a victim of genital mutilation, and female subjugation before leaving her faith and her birth country. In the Dutch Parliament she was trying to address issues of mass-migration of Muslims into the Netherlands and their unwillingness to integrate themselves into Dutch society and culture. For those efforts, she was the recipient of many death threats.

Some religion of peace, huh? As far as I’m concerned, it’s the same song, second verse — over and over and over again! When are the “moderate” Muslims gonna stand up here in the U.S. and tell the radical members within their midst to stuff it? When are the moderate Muslims gonna stand up for the constitutional rights of all Americans to worship, or not, as they please? As far as I can tell, that when is probably never. As Bryan at Hot Air states:

If the US isn’t safe for her, it isn’t safe for you or me either.

You got that right! All I can say is that I hope Ali is at the range, workin’ on her skills.

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