Hirsi Ali said journalists must acknowledge the discrepancies between tenets of Islam and foundational beliefs of the West before they can accurately report on Islamic-related events.

I've posted about Hirsi Ali before.  She is the leading voice against Islamic fascism.  Her she talks to the journalist at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., who just don't get it.  It's like when Dan Rather said that if he know North Veitnamies were going to attack U.S. troops he would not tell. Because of his journalistic nutrality.  B.S.  You have to decide what side your on.  Mostly I think the 527 Drive By Media is on the side of blame America first.

Former Muslim Tells Journalists Values of Islam, West Incompatible
By Whitney Stewart
CNSNews.com Correspondent
June 20, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - Journalists must acknowledge incompatible differences between Islamic and Western beliefs to effectively facilitate debate between them, in the view of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an advocate for women's rights in Islamic cultures.

Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week, the Somali-born Hirsi Ali said the 21st century began with a battle of ideas "about the values of the West versus those of Islam."

"Journalists ... face the unpleasant reality of taking sides or getting lost in the incoherence of the so-called middle ground," she said. "The role of journalists serving the West, who understand what this particular battle is about, will be to inform their audiences accordingly."

Hirsi Ali said journalists must acknowledge the discrepancies between tenets of Islam and foundational beliefs of the West before they can accurately report on Islamic-related events.

Although Hirsi Ali praised journalists' work since the Sept. 11th attacks, she said reluctance to defend Western values against Islamic threats surprises her.

"Why are Westerners so insecure about everything that is so wonderful about the West: political freedom, free press, freedom of expression, equal rights for women and men and gays and heterosexuals, critical thinking, and the great strength of scrutinizing ideas - and especially faith?" Hirsi Ali asked.

She said Western journalists appeared hesitant to defend free speech - "the very right from which they earn their bread."

The daughter of a Somali rebel leader, Hirsi Ali left the Muslim faith and pursued a career in activism for women's rights. Since 1992, she has been an outspoken critic of Islam's subjugation of women and quashing of free speech.

She served three years as a member of Dutch parliament but left after threats from Islamic extremists and amid a row over having given false information on her asylum application in the early 1990s.

She moved to the United States and is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she researches Islam's influence in the West and Europe and on women.

In her speech, Hirsi Ali said the West is battling for its cornerstone ideas of political freedom, freedom of expression and equality for women. Islam, on the other hand, is hostile to everything Western, she said.

Muslims, Jews and Christians should have equal access to Western freedoms, but some basic teachings of Islam inevitably hold Muslims back from fully assimilating into Western society - particularly teachings about women, she said.

"This obsession with subjugating women is one of the things that makes Islam so low," Hirsi Ali said. "And the agents of Islam ... know that any improvement in the lives of women will lead to the demise of Islam and a disappearance of their power. This is why, among other things, they are so desperate to cage in women. This is why they also hate the West."

She challenged journalists directly. "If we do not understand the differences between Islam and the West - why one is so great and the other so low - and we don't fight back and win this battle of ideas in order to preserve our civilization, in my view there is no point to your profession or mine," she said.

A Muslim journalist in the audience said Hirsi Ali was too aggressive and disrespectful toward Islam.

"I think now the easiest way to be famous is attacking Islam" and depicting it as "a threat to the West," said Nayef Alkhawaldeh, an intern with a magazine published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies in Lebanon. "I don't understand. I don't feel that I want to destroy the West."

Alkhawaldeh said the women in his home country, Jordan, have equal rights and his sisters are educated and have jobs.

He said he thought Hirsi Ali's opinions were so strongly anti-Muslim because the suppressive Islam she experienced growing up was too fundamentalist and backwards. He pointed to Jordan, Egypt and Syria as examples of civilized Islamic countries.

"She's talking about historic Islam, not Islam nowadays," Alkhawaldeh said. "The Koran is just a historical document. You can't apply it for the present or the future."

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