Skepticism

URGENT APPEAL: Please Help Protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In light of our recent discussion of the plight of women in Muslim countries, I’d like to repost something I saw elswhere today, a request to help Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Infidel.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the most prominent advocate of free speech and women’s rights in the Muslim world, and for this she must live under perpetual armed guard, even in the West. Unfortunately, on October 1st of this year, the Dutch government officially rescinded its promise to protect her. Now, Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s friends, colleagues and admirers must come to her aid.

I have created a page on my website that links directly to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Security Trust. The money raised by this trust will pay Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s security expenses. In the event that money remains after these costs have been met, it will be used to encourage and protect other dissidents in the Muslim world.

The ongoing protection of Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a moral obligation. It is also a strategic one: for here is a woman doing work that most of us cannot do–indeed, would be terrified to do if given the chance–and yet this work is essential for preserving the freedoms we take for granted in the West.

If every reader of this email simply pledged ten dollars a month to protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the costs of her security would be covered for as long as the threat to her life remains.

Thanks in advance for your support.

Sincerely,

Sam Harris

To donate go here: http://www.samharris.org/site/security_trust/

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Donna Druchunas is a freelance technical writer and editor and a knitwear designer. When she's not working, she blogs, studies Lithuanian, reads science and sci-fi books, mouths off on atheist forums, and checks her email every three minutes. (She does that when she's working, too.) Although she loves to chat, she can't keep an IM program open or she'd never get anything else done.

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3 Comments

  1. Yes, thanks for posting this. I think everyone should chip in a few bucks. WE HAVE to maintain the consistent message that you can speak out on any topic and not fear violence. I doeen't matter what ideology the subject jerkwads embrace – if they are willing to use violence to silence those who disagree with them, they have to be stopped.

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