Hirsigate: Hirsi fundamentaliseert

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

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Nog wat meer Hirsigate-fantasieen...

Bron:  New York Times
Datum: 3 april 2005
URL:   http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03ALI.html?ei=5088&en=960f3f19ffba6b8b&ex=1270180800&partner=rssnyt&pagewanted=all&position=


Daughter of the Enlightenment
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(...)

When Hirsi Ali was 16, an Iranian-trained Shiite fundamentalist arrived to
teach at the previously Anglophile Muslim Girls' Secondary School in
Nairobi. The girls had been reading 'Little Women' and Mark Twain and
Dickens. That changed. Sister Aziza, as she was called, wore a full Muslim
wrap and gloves. She was so pale, graceful and charismatic that Hirsi
Ali's eyes still widen when she speaks of her. In the tender way of an
elder sister, Aziza began questioning the girls about their Muslim
observance. A Muslim prayed five times a day, she told them, and anyone
who did not was not a Muslim. A Muslim did not wear shorts and T-shirts,
even to sports class. The teacher took them to eat sweets and read
magazines at the Iranian Embassy -- the East African equivalent of being
wined and dined. 'Gradually we were covering ourselves,' Hirsi Ali
remembers. 'We were not taking part in sports, we were not laughing
anymore, we were not visiting each other anymore. We were praying five
times a day. We were reading the Koran. And suddenly we hated Israel with
a passion. We didn't even know where Israel was. I was 16, and I had never
seen an Israeli, but we hated them because it was 'Muslim' to hate them.'

Sister Aziza called this inner jihad. 'We all wanted to be martyrs,'
Hirsi Ali says, 'or I did, because we saw what the Iraqi army was doing
to the Iranians. Only it was always 'We the Muslims,' ' meaning Iran,
'and 'They the infidels,' ' meaning Iraq, 'helped by the huge devil,
the United States.' Hirsi Ali's mother, a Sunni like virtually all Somali
Muslims, was both delighted at her daughter's piety and a bit shocked by
the Shiite form it was taking. But Hirsi Ali was also casting about for
religious answers wherever she could find them. For a while she was a
sympathizer of the (Sunni) Muslim Brotherhood. She and her comrades
addressed one another as ikhwan, or 'brethren.' She began covering
herself in a hijab, a punishing ordeal in sweltering Nairobi.

(...)

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(c) 2006 New York Times

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