Ayaan Hirsi Ali

And what I'm saying is there is a third way. Never limit your options to just two.

But that's a platitude. Of course that's the point of democracy, but democracy is more than that.

What I'm saying is there is a third way. Never limit your options to just two.

Because as a 15-year-old, 16, 17-year-old, what -- the members, the strong members of the Muslim Brotherhood who educated me, what they taught me was for us to strive toward a society governed by Sharia law or Islamic law, and it wasn't…

Let them come out, let them give a resounding answer to extremist groups like Muslim Revolution and let them marginalize them.

What makes America different and the west, western society different from other societies is because a resounding answer has been given to exactly that question many years ago in the 17th and 18th century.

I have protection, but there comes a time when it's not just Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone, but if the entertainment business were to take this on and just show how ridiculous this is, that there would be too many people to threaten.

It is an assault on the freedom of expression. And we have to defend it tooth and nail. That means we all stand by Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker.

I hope that, in -- in the aftermath of this, that we discuss that. When Theo van Gogh and I made 'Submission,' we wanted to address the position of women in Islam and what the Koran said about Islam -- or what the Koran said about women.

This is clearly a threat.

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.

But when human rights are being violated, as in being flogged, jailed, killed, we don't see anybody. Why is the Muslim world silent today?