Ayaan Hirsi Ali once again speaks truth to power. From the NIS News Bulletin, with thanks to Jihad Watch News Editor Eric Schwappach:
THE HAGUE, 29/10/05 – Measures to prevent terrorism will not succeed if these do not go hand in hand with the awareness that Islam is the core of the problem, according to conservative (VVD) MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She lashed out at Justice Minister Donner in an interview with public broadcaster NOS on Friday.
Hirsi Ali says Donner does not want to link religion to the murder of her friend Theo van Gogh for strategic reasons. “I consider this (position) fundamentally wrong”, said the MP. Politicians must not be afraid to acknowledge that the core of the problem of terrorism “is puritan Islam”, in her view. “If politicians run away from that, citizens will always keep the feeling: ‘do they actually understand’ (the problem)?”
Indeed. The killer attached a note to Van Gogh’s body containing Qur’an verses. He said in court that he killed Van Gogh for his religion. The sooner European — and American — authorities stop ignoring that and start taking realistic steps to deal with the fact that there are many more Bouyeris out there, the safer we will all be.