Speaking of Ayaan Hirsi Ali...

No, that's not Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the pic above; it's just some nice, friendly hijabbed Muslima from Ayaan's home country.  But it could well be one of the hundreds of millions of Muslims whom Ayaan incoherently implies are harmlessly not much of a problem (while also implying sort of the opposite -- hence the incoherence).

In my previous posting, I ended with this sentence:

And don't get me started on Ayaan.

The linked name there leads the reader to a Google page with some of my older essays touching on the subject of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's analysis of the problem of Islam -- particularly good and meaty is the 3-part series examining her and Sam Harris, titled "Sam and Ayaan" (see part 3 which has links to parts 1 and 2 in the first parapgraph).

I recently came across an interesting review of one of her recent books, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Moement and How to Counter It. The reviewer is one Andrew Harrod, and I had occasion to speculate about his Counter-Jihad Cred in the second part of my analysis of a new book at the time by frequent Jihad Watch contributor, Christine Douglass-Williams -- yet another in a long line of Counter-Jihad folks who seem to have a built-in resistance to making the paradigm shift from "Islam is the problem" to "Muslims are the problem" (this inability then exerting an effect on their conception of Islam as a problem, such that Islam invariably gets split into Two Islams, one the source of the problems, the other relatively benign and to be protected from our criticisms lest by critiquing it too much, we begin to oppose Muslims in general -- a conclusion the Counter-Jihad Mainstream dearly wishes to avoid).

Harrod's review reveals that indeed Ayaan is constructing a Two-Islams model as she analytically grapples with the problem of Islam.  That Ayaan also seems to equivocate on it, incoherently, does not really console, since the damage of the rhetorical effect is done, promoting and reinforcing our collective inability to move forward in the aforementioned and above-linked paradigm shift.