Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Ideological Islam

“Dawa is to the Islamists today what the ‘long march through the institutions’ was to 20th century Marxists.”

Last night I watched a 2017 episode of one of my favourite shows, Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, where they explore and answer many questions on ‘radical’ Islam.

Ali says that Westerners have pinned classifiers like ‘radical’ in front of Islam, not understanding that Islam is not only a religion, which can present itself more benignly, but a complete ideological political philosophy that dates back 1400 years.

In this short clip, she explains what Dawa is. Dawa is basically a precursor to Jihad, an invitation into Islam which if not accepted peacefully, resorts to the use of force.

“One of the first requirements of Dawa is to learn as much as you can about individuals, communities you are trying to convert…their strengths and weaknesses… and then tailor your message to that.” - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There is so much to learn from this episode, I won’t quote it all, but I would highly recommend watching it. Ali, who grew up in Islam, was an early critic, shouting into the abyss about the civilizational threat of Islam that the West does not want to study or address, in fear of what they might find, and what it means for us.

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I would like to say a big thank you to my subscribers. Here is a comment from a recent paid subscriber, David:

I am driven to write and talk about things that I find important. We are at a moment where civilization is clashing with both illiberalism and barbarism. There is not only threats coming from an ancient ideology like Islam, but from the younger Neo-Marxist ideology that has many parallels with Islam. And they are on the same side — for now.

They both maintain a victim stance while actually being the aggressors. They both believe in violent means for achieving their ends, “revolution” or “intifada”. They are both nihilistic; instead of searching for meaning that embraces humanistic principles, they seek to dismantle, destroy, and oppress. They are both thin-skinned, intolerant, and aim to suppress dissent. They both offer a kind of utopia: one where the ‘oppressed’ overtake the ‘oppressors’, the other of an afterlife with virgins, milk and honey.

I will write an article about that soon, but for now, if you haven’t already seen it, check this one out:

And also let me know if there are other comparisons I can draw between the Woke and Islam ideologies. No coincidences that they are now in a kind of unholy coalition.