Is Freedom Subjective?
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"We are the enemy. Look in the mirror. It is you, me, us. We are sleeping while they are making plans. In order to stabilize the world we should strike preemptively.A lot of people criticize Bush. But he liberated people. We thank him. [applause] For thirty-five years before him we heard “negotiate”. They made bombs. Enough is enough. As Europe, as NATO, declare war on Iran and liberate the people.
Iran will nuke Israel."
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by Dymphna
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On March 14th, Ehsan Jami, a politician in the Netherlands, was in Denmark to accept the Danish Free Press award. What follows below his is speech at that event.
Before you watch it, here’s some background on Mr. Jami. He is a former Muslim, a naturalized Dutch citizen, and the co-founder of the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.Ehsan Jami was born in Iran, to an upper-class family, in 1985. His father was a doctor and politically active, which forced the family out of the country. They landed in the Netherlands when Mr. Jami was nine years old.It wasn’t until after 9/11 that he began to read the holy books of Islam. His father was nominally Muslim and his mother was a Christian.
As he began to question the tenets of Islam, he says the greatest gift his family gave him was the freedom to ask questions and to choose.
He found Islam unacceptable; at some point he identified himself as an atheist.By 2007, having gone public with his denunciation of Islam, he was aggressive in his founding of the Committee for ex-Muslims.In late 2008, Mr. Jami made the infamous film “An Interview with Mohammed”, which you can see here.
Predictably, he was beaten up, threatened with death, and lives in hiding. He quit school. Because of the large immigrant student population, Ehsan Jami is not safe, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders are not safe.
Here is his speech on March 14th, at the Danish Free Press Society’s award ceremony:
posted by jillosophy at 3/19/2009 01:35:00 PM
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