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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a famous activist and Ethiopian-born Dutch immigrant who campaigns against FGM, supports women's rights and was a victim of FGM herself as a child. She is also known for her anti-islam advocacy and has said somethings that many people would find problematic such as:
"Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can."
"I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance."
What do you think of her?
Is their any way for a white, non-muslim criticize her view without erasure?
Do the privileged have a responsibility to hear her story and respect her views?
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[–]altlifelit [score hidden]  (0 children)
If she makes personal statements about her experiences that's one thing, but whether the two examples you give are true or not (and really IMHO it's the juxtaposition of 'Islam' must be either a 'religion of peace' or a 'theory of conquest' that's wrong) they definitely aren't statements that can be supported by anyone's personal experience.
[–]TheEvilSloth [score hidden]  (0 children)
Yeah, if she could stop assuming that because she misled the Danish authorities during her asylum application that misleading applications for asylum are rife, that'd be great.
[–]Engelgrinder [score hidden]  (3 children)
She's a puppet of the bourgeoisie, OP. Why exactly should I worry about "erasure" of a rich author who gets paid to speak to fawning racist white liberals?
[–]95RJ[S] [score hidden]  (2 children)
She may be, but I feel that as a member of a historically oppressed group, her opinion should be at the very least discussed along with similar activists who remain Muslim. I definitely think that she is sometimes put on a pedestal by racists as "one of the good ones", which is obviously highly problematic.
[–]Scrappythewonderdrak [score hidden]  (0 children)
I've seen this stuff happen on reddit all the time, when "I'm a black man but I think black people suck" or "I'm a woman but feminism dumb" posts and comments hit the top while "Racism exists" and "feminism is necessary" posts get downvoted to oblivion. There's nothing wrong with members of marginalized groups having opinions that go against the majority within their group, but there is something wrong with privileged groups co-opting them as justification for their bigotry, and pretending that the opinion of one dissident is enough to outweigh the countless others who don't enable their privilege.
[–]Engelgrinder [score hidden]  (0 children)
She's not just "one of the good ones" in racist propaganda, she's only given a chance to talk because she's a colonial mouthpiece for the racist oppressor.
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