On the recordNovember 28, 2007
If you define peace as flogging a victim of rape with 200 stripes because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, then maybe it's peace.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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transcripts.cnn.comIf you define peace as flogging a victim of rape with 200 stripes because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, then maybe it's peace.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali critiques the definition of peace in the context of severe punishments in Saudi Arabia.
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And in the west, when we say peace, we mean something totally different from developing a bomb to eradicate Israel or, from flogging a poor young woman, a 19-year-old with 200 lashes of the whip.
The ideology of Islamism or political Islam contradicts the constitutional values of this country.
We as a Nation must be committed to shut down the ideology of Islamism, just as we defeated fascism, just as we defeated communism.