Ayaan Hirsi Ali Reveals How To Finish OFF Islamists Once & For All! — Transcript

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1. 0:00We've got Ayaan Hirsi Ali with the
2. 0:02Hoover Institution. Let's take a look.
3. 0:04>> Soviet communism lasted seven decades.
4. 0:07>> Yeah.
5. 0:08>> Islam has been with us for 14 centuries.
6. 0:11Are you optimistic?
7. 0:13>> I am optimistic because we have defeated
8. 0:18in the past
9. 0:19um these ideologies you mentioned uh
10. 0:22communism and
11. 0:24uh national socialism
12. 0:27that were in some ways
13. 0:29um more determined, modern, fighting
14. 0:32with modern tools.
15. 0:34And Islam has been around for a very
16. 0:35long time, but the jihad is the
17. 0:38political uh Islam of our day
18. 0:42buys weapons from us, takes innovation
19. 0:44from us, needs us to destroy us.
20. 0:48And so in some ways I think we should be
21. 0:50more optimistic because A, we've done it
22. 0:53before.
23. 0:54>> They can't destroy us without our
24. 0:56permission.
25. 0:57>> They can't destroy us without our
26. 0:58permission. They can't destroy us
27. 0:59without us letting them destroy us.
28. 1:03And even if you just put the two ideas
29. 1:05side by side, one thing
30. 1:07I I was talking to Andy McCarthy, the
31. 1:09former prosecutor.
32. 1:10>> Yes.
33. 1:11>> And he was uh from you know, as a
34. 1:13prosecutor, he's really tried to fight
35. 1:15this fight
36. 1:16within the justice system. And he's come
37. 1:19to the conclusion, you know, the biggest
38. 1:21part of this battle should be won on the
39. 1:23cultural arena.
40. 1:25>> Mhm.
41. 1:25>> The battlefield of ideas. And if you
42. 1:28take it there
43. 1:30I think that we can easily win if only
44. 1:33we would stand up for our own ideas. If
45. 1:36you are promoting Sharia and you make it
46. 1:39explicit, you're selling Sharia to
47. 1:41someone like me.
48. 1:43Uh I left Islam.
49. 1:45So for those who leave Islam is the
50. 1:47death penalty.
51. 1:49I'm a woman. You want to sell Sharia to
52. 1:51me? It puts me in a position of chattel.
53. 1:54You're trying to sell Sharia to a Jewish
54. 1:57person or a Christian? They've been
55. 1:58relegated to the status of dhimmi's or
56. 2:01second class, third class, right?
57. 2:03Um and then you show people the places
58. 2:06on this planet today in 2017 where
59. 2:09Sharia is reality.
60. 2:11And you see a lot of pain and suffering,
61. 2:14discrimination, divisiveness, poverty.
62. 2:17So it's it's not
63. 2:19a difficult idea, a difficult philosophy
64. 2:23to defeat. It's just that we're not
65. 2:25interested for some reason. We're not
66. 2:27yet We don't get it yet. But once we get
67. 2:29there,
68. 2:30all of our ideas, I mean and I know most
69. 2:33people here today feel a sense of shame
70. 2:36when they talk about Western
71. 2:37civilization. But the ideas and
72. 2:39principles of Western civilization, with
73. 2:42all their weaknesses and with all their
74. 2:44pathologies, are far superior to
75. 2:46anything that Sharia has to offer. We
76. 2:48shouldn't be embarrassed about saying
77. 2:50that. That should be where we begin the
78. 2:51conversation.
79. 2:52>> Last question. This time I'm going to
80. 2:53quote President Trump. This is Donald
81. 2:55Trump speaking this month in Warsaw.
82. 2:58Quote,
83. 2:59"The fundamental question of our time is
84. 3:02whether the West has the will to
85. 3:04survive.
86. 3:05>> Yeah.
87. 3:06>> Do we have the confidence in our values
88. 3:08to defend them at any cost?
89. 3:10Do we have enough respect for our
90. 3:12citizens to protect our borders?
91. 3:16Do we have the desire and the courage to
92. 3:18preserve our civilization in the face of
93. 3:21those who would subvert and destroy it?
94. 3:24Close quote."
95. 3:27Does the West have the will
96. 3:28>> Was that really Donald Trump? I'm not
97. 3:31I'm not sure I've ever heard Donald
98. 3:32Trump speak so eloquently before. That's
99. 3:33crazy.
100. 3:34>> Is that the fundamental question?
101. 3:36>> That's a fundamental question. Yeah.
102. 3:38That is the fundamental question. He
103. 3:39said these words in Poland and they were
104. 3:42well received. And what I've noticed,
105. 3:44I'm I'm, you know, I came to
106. 3:47the West in 1992. So I'm a newcomer. But
107. 3:51>> You're doing fine.
108. 3:52>> Thank [laughter] you.
109. 3:53In the in this short period, what I
110. 3:55notice is
111. 3:57those to whom freedom came late,
112. 4:00they're the ones who are willing to
113. 4:02fight.
114. 4:03The Eastern
115. 4:04>> having suffered for four decades under
116. 4:06the communists.
117. 4:06>> the Eastern Europeans, you know, for
118. 4:08them it is not some vague story in
119. 4:11history. It's They still know what it
120. 4:14was like to be under the Soviet Union,
121. 4:16to be behind that Iron Curtain, to have
122. 4:19no freedom. They know what a
123. 4:21totalitarian ideology is.
124. 4:23They recognize it and they're willing to
125. 4:25fight for the core principles of
126. 4:28freedom.
127. 4:29And
128. 4:31that's what Western civilization has
129. 4:34uh
130. 4:35has granted in to a certain degree to
131. 4:38human beings and has promoted and has
132. 4:40established systems that protect that
133. 4:42individual freedom. They know that. The
134. 4:45Northern Europeans,
135. 4:47to some degree Americans, who have been
136. 4:50free for so long that they don't know
137. 4:52what freedom is anymore. They're the
138. 4:54ones who are in this, I think,
139. 4:57moral
140. 4:59um moral twist about and wringing their
141. 5:03hands and thinking, you know, how can we
142. 5:05defend Western civilization? I mean,
143. 5:07what is Western civilization? Is it
144. 5:09white supremacism or is it something
145. 5:11else? And if our leaders, if our elites
146. 5:14cannot tell the difference between white
147. 5:17nationalism and Western civilization, or
148. 5:20what it is that makes America great
149. 5:22again, then I think we're in big
150. 5:23trouble.
151. 5:25We'll have to depend on those Eastern
152. 5:27Europeans to defend us.
153. 5:29>> That's the
154. 5:30This really is the last question. I keep
155. 5:32saying last but this one really is the
156. 5:33last question.
157. 5:33>> Yeah.
158. 5:35>> If the question is whether the West has
159. 5:37the courage to defend itself, has the
160. 5:38will to defend itself,
161. 5:40then you've just identified the central
162. 5:42sub question within that question, and
163. 5:45that is will the United States of
164. 5:48America stop wringing its hands?
165. 5:51>> Yeah.
166. 5:52>> What do you think?
167. 5:54>> Uh I hate to say it, but something has
168. 5:57to happen to make us focus and to stop
169. 6:00wringing our hands. Uh
170. 6:02you know, just turn on the news and the
171. 6:04first thing you hear is about North
172. 6:06Korea testing missiles that could hit
173. 6:08us. Then there's the whole radical
174. 6:10Islamic phenomenon. There's this rise of
175. 6:12China, which is
176. 6:14again in its expression anti-Western.
177. 6:18And looking at all of that, I think it
178. 6:21is I don't know. I feel a sense of
179. 6:23urgency. I hope that you feel a sense of
180. 6:24urgency that we have something to
181. 6:26defend. But unfortunately, something
182. 6:29and this is this is not my analysis.
183. 6:31This is what I hear from other people.
184. 6:33This is Americans first try all the bad
185. 6:36options, and they try all the before and
186. 6:39then the very last one will be Now, if
187. 6:42that's the case, I hope we have time
188. 6:44this time.
189. 6:45>> [laughter]
190. 6:47>> I hope we have time as well, but it's
191. 6:49seeming to me as a first generation born
192. 6:52in America from parent like immigrant
193. 6:55parents, I can tell that we are heading
194. 6:57towards a very very very very dangerous
195. 6:59precipice. And this is a precipice of of
196. 7:03of dread for a lot of people who are
197. 7:04immigrants to America who have escaped
198. 7:07terrible places to live, this is a place
199. 7:09of absolute dread. Why do I say dread?
200. 7:12Because
201. 7:14what are we in America if we aren't for
202. 7:17our values? What are we in America if
203. 7:19we're not for our
204. 7:20history? What are we if not for our
205. 7:22culture? And if you keep bringing in
206. 7:25people, emboldening people, or letting
207. 7:27people rise up that hate our culture,
208. 7:29that hate our history, that tell you all
209. 7:31the time that you're terrible for being
210. 7:34a part of this or for living here, what
211. 7:36what can be made of this nation? Where
212. 7:39can this nation possibly hope to go?
213. 7:42You know, it's these are really really
214. 7:44valid questions that I ask. Where in the
215. 7:46world
216. 7:48what in the world can one hope to
217. 7:50accomplish
218. 7:52with with always being told that
219. 7:56this is a terrible country and terrible
220. 7:57region and the terrible people,
221. 7:59and you're racist and you're terrible,
222. 8:00and anytime you want to defend or stand
223. 8:02up for yourself, what can be
224. 8:03accomplished? I can tell you what,
225. 8:04nothing can be accomplished from that.
226. 8:06You have to rise up. You have to change.
227. 8:09It has to be a big change.