Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I attended another wonderful dinner event today. This time the speaker was none other than Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I got to speak to this titan of freedom and express my admiration to her at the cocktail party before dinner. After a gourmet dinner we listened to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I will be able to supply the transcript later.
She painted a very dark picture of a lost Europe where Islam will triumph and freedom will be lost. She adheres to a position that there is not such a thing as moderate Islam and the religion itself is the problem. There can be no separation of Church and state in islam. There can be no criticism of the faith. She spoke passionately about the European Muslim culture of welfare abuse and spousal abuse. That Europe's greatest mistake was not demanding more integration. She spoke about how there is a very high level of dropouts among Muslim immigrants and that European battered wife shelters are full of Muslim women.
After her speech there were several questions . I asked about the Mark Steyn case and jihadi lawfare. She said that was the tactic used throughout the UK and Holland. She talked about Geert Wilders and his banning from the UK. My friend Marc Lebuis of Point de Basculetold her things were as bad in Canada with a silent press and the hrcs. Interestingly Pearl Eliadis rose and defended elmasry's sock puppets saying they were earnest young lads. She said that Mark Steyn was not dragged in front of the hrcs and it was just Macleans. She also disparaged Mark Sten as just earning a lot of money from the books he writes. Hirsi Ali defended Mark Steyn and said he wrote well documented books that were the truth!
I couldn't resist going to talk to her after the talk and I must say I got a bit hot under the collar. One of her friends said I should be more civil so I left. I did say that elmasry was behind the sock puppets and reminded her that she had called BCF toxic. She denied this and said it was a fabrication of the NP. ( She is not a NP fan.) She actually knew of me because of my letters in the Gazette and we both attended Marianopolis College. I did give her my card and said I was sorry if she found I was too aggressive. She accepted my apology. I did not back off on my position that I thought the hrcs should be abolished and that particularly section13 a should be abolished now. . I replied that it 's huge cost was causing a chill on speech . She said the sock puppets deserved free speech. I replied that were in every paper and every radio station and had no right to publish Maclean's. She said the outcome of the maclean's case was the correct one. She is actually a nice lady, though with views I find abhorrent, but I learned that I must never lose my cool.
I did speak to Ayaan Hirsi Ali again and told her that elmo was behind the sock puppets. She told me she had followed the case and was completely aware of what was going on. She said she was an admirer of Mark Steyn. She signed a copy of her book Infidel for me. I even forgot to go out and put more money in the parking meter and I didn't get a ticket! It was a wonderful evening.