Quote Originally Posted by nightflier
For your information, Ayaan Ali is what most would consider a conservative (member of the Dutch Ultra-Right Party, read: anti-Muslim), but she never disavows her faith, despite the Fatwa on her head. She's essentially been dealt the same punishment as Salman Rushdie, and yet she perseveres. That's the type of courage we need right now, not guns and angry rhetoric.
You're wrong about that nightflier. She quite clearly states in her book that she no longer believes in her religion and has become an atheist. Although she was a very devout Conservative Muslim as a young woman. She began to question her religion even before she escaped Somalia and her marriage.