Courage

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an MP in the Netherlands, is very outspoken about Islam and received death threats after her work with Theo van Gogh on Submission. van Gogh was killed by an Islamist.

The film Submission dealt with the life of a woman under Islam and caused an uproar.

The plot centred around a Muslim woman forced into a marriage against her wishes, who was then beaten, raped and punished for falling in love with someone else. BBC News

She is working on another movie now. She and van Gogh had co-written the script to this movie in 2004, months before he was stabbed to death. It is called Submission II and deals with the treatment of homosexuals under Islam. This will more than likely cause more death threats against her.

Homosexuality is not well tolerated under Islam.

Mainstream Islamic thought treats Islam and homosexuality as incompatible, and hostility to homosexuals is widespread in many parts of the Muslim world.

I salute Ms. Ali's courage to take on Islam and expose the brutality under which many women live under Islam. And her mettle shines through with this next endeavor. Not many people would try to pursue something like this after their co-writer has been murdered and while under death threats. Keep on writing and filming the truth about Islam. The world needs more people like you.

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