BBC – Radio 4 – Taking a Stand – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
BBC – Radio 4 – Taking a Stand – 24 January 2006
Taking a Stand
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24 January 2006
Tuesday 24 January 2006 9:00-9:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:30-22:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Interview series with Fergal Keane, in which he talks to people who, through conviction or circumstance, have taken a stand for what they believe in.
When Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch MP, wrote Submission, a film attacking what she believes to be the Koran’s endorsement of the subjugation of women, she knew it would cause controversy. She did not however envisage that it would lead to the murder of her collaborator Theo Van Gogh and a life under 24-hour armed guard for her. She talks to Fergal about her journey from devout Muslim to one of Islam’s most outspoken critics, and why she refuses to be silenced.
