{"id":248,"date":"2010-11-18T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.image.fi\/antiaikalainen\/alymysto-islam\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:30:27","slug":"alymysto-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/alymysto-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c4lymyst\u00f6 &amp; islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5LDO6QlH6PY\/TOUjgiErQkI\/AAAAAAAAAoc\/tCZJJNYMw2k\/s1600\/Islam%2BEuroopassa.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 123px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 124px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540873958358467138\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5LDO6QlH6PY\/TOUjgiErQkI\/AAAAAAAAAoc\/tCZJJNYMw2k\/s320\/Islam%2BEuroopassa.bmp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><em>&#8220;Having in her youth been tempted by Islamist fundamentalism, under the influence of an inspiring schoolteacher, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is now a brave, outspoken, slightly simplistic Enlightenment fundamentalist. In a pattern familiar to historians of political intellectuals, she has gone from one extreme to the other, with an emotional energy perfectly summed up by Shakespeare:<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>&#8220;&#8230;as the heresies that men do leave<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Are hated most of those they did deceive.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>This is precisely why she is a heroine to many secular European intellectuals, who are themselves Enlightenment fundamentalists. They believe that not just Islam but all religion is insulting to the intelligence and crippling to the human spirit. Most of them believe that a Europe based entirely on secular humanism would be a better Europe. Maybe they are right. (Some of my best friends are Enlightenment fundamentalists.) Maybe they are wrong. But let&#8217;s not pretend this is anything other than a frontal challenge to Islam.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Timothy Garton Ash: <em>Facts Are Subversive. Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name<\/em>. (Atlantic Books 2009)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Having in her youth been tempted by Islamist fundamentalism, under the influence&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"platta":{"numLikes":0,"numComments":5,"category":null,"themes":[],"commercial_partner":null,"thumbnail":false,"blog_id":38},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}