“We had people from the Iranian embassy come to our school, they were giving us you also you have to imagine this Africa where we barely have anything to eat. And we’re teenagers. We never left a morsel of food on the plate. That’s how hungry we are... So as kids, we were obviously hugely attracted to this.
They brought us clothes, they brought us money, etc, etc.... This is how the Islamist strike. They find poor teenagers, they feed them, they clothe them, they give them an interesting utopian idea, and they won’t realize them. They took over the mosques, they took over the streets, they took over our parents, you know, we’re just regular Muslims. My mother was a regular, illiterate Muslim, but she loved it when my brother and the other boys were taken off the streets, where they had dropped out of school, they might have gone into drugs and things like that. And they were taken into the mosque. She loved that.
So I think if we go back and we say Ayaan, what have you learned from this period? It is, that’s exactly what we need to do. We need to be paying attention to what is happening within families and schools and on the streets, in poor countries in rich countries. And as they bring on their own media, I guess we have to develop our own media. I think we have the opportunity of the internet, which we didn’t have back then.”
Our Founder Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks on the nature of things as it relates to Islamists. Islamists are a subset of Muslims who advocate for political Islam and seek to establish Islamic law in politics, government, and society. They do not speak for all Muslims, but are a dangerous subset.
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