"Wake up and smell the decaf..."

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.