Trigger warning: upon listening to this conversation, you should be triggered. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world from institutionalized polygamy to the lack of legal and religious protections for women. Shermer speaks with Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, scholar, and former politician, Ayaan Hirsi Ali about her new book Prey. Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants - most of them young men - from Muslim-majority countries. Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights Episode
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Indeed, maybe it is already? This would explain all the banality we see on television every day, all the terrible music on the radio. Or perhaps the scene can be better compared to the Fall of Man in Milton’s poem, a grand cosmic undoing, followed by the heroic struggle against the inevitable.īesides the sublime tragedy of Rome’s decline, it fascinates because it gives us a foreboding of what might happen to us. Like a Macbeth or an Oedipus, the Empire succumbs to itself, brought down by its own efforts at self-expansion. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of my favorite books, not only because it is written so beautifully, but because of the spectacle of decline-of a great empire slowly and inevitably crumbling. The Decline of the West by Oswald SpenglerĪll genuine historical work is philosophy, unless it is mere ant-industry. Summertime in Andalucía: Málaga and SurroundingsĢ023: New Year… on From Gold to Glory: A Slice of…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Three…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: …Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Jerez….Summertime in Andalucía: Jerez and Cádiz. Despite the success of the effort, Strax apparently dies in the battle. They are all recruited by the Eleventh Doctor to help him rescue Amy Pond. Strax, a Sontaran, is seen in his first appearance to be acting as a nurse, caring for wounded soldiers on another planet. In later stories we see them living in London during the 19th century. The three characters first appear in the sixth series episode " A Good Man Goes to War." Madame Vastra (a Silurian) and Jenny Flint (a human) are a married couple. Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax (informally known as the Paternoster Gang, together with the Doctor), are a trio of recurring fictional characters in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, created by Steven Moffat and portrayed, respectively, by Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, and Dan Starkey. From left to right: Vastra, Strax and Jenny Flint, in the 2012 Christmas episode " The Snowmen". |