I've suspected that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has softened up in terms of her critical stance against Islam. And I further suspect that behind this decaffeination of Ayaan, there lurks the wily effects of Maajid Nawaz, that snake posturing as a "reformer". I've written before on my old blog, The Hesperado, about how he seems to have "turned" Sam Harris from something resembling a robust cup of black espresso (in terms of Islam) into (at best) a cup of weak coffee with milk. And I've put up a few postings on the matter here on this little old cafe bulletin board as well.
Soon, I will see if he may have done the same with Ayaan. Three YouTube videos may help my investigation by plotting the stages of the "Maajidization of Ayaan": All are round table debates/discussions on the problem of Islam where Ayaan and Maajid are featured. The first one is clearly a debate by Ayaan against Maajid (on Ayaan's team is also Douglas Murray, another anti-Islam analyst who seems to have been "turned" by Maajid, about which I may write in the future). My prediction is that by the time I start analyzing the third video, from 2016, I will already see the effects of Ayaan's Maajidization, whereby she will have transformed from being his opponent on this issue, into his partner.
2010:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shwhgV733Kg
2013:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2prB3weT4c
2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV_GMeZ_XmA
The 2010 video is over 3 hours, and I suspect the other two are no less than about 2 hours; so this will take some time for my to process. Stay tuned.
P.S.:
Maajid having a grand old time with Douglas Murray in 2017?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx0fyYVebbE
And of course, on my old blog The Hesperado, I devoted two or three essays to the Maajidization of Sam Harris.
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