I have received death threats and abuse for years since I renounced Islam. This is why the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder leaves me fearing for the future of the West: AYAAN HIRSI ALI

When I first heard Charlie Kirk’s assassination, my mind Amsterdam returned to 2004. A 47 -year -old father and Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, a man was on a bike to work at the hurry time he went up to him. He shot Theo, cut his throat and fixed a five -page letter with a knife on his chest.

The murder wasn’t just a barbarism, but it also meant a message. Theo made a film criticizing the treatment of Islam to women. For this, it was executed in a wide daylight. Even those who despised him condemned to kill. No film, no word, no opinion murder can justify.

Theo and I worked together in this movie. I wrote the script and Theo brought it to the screen. We knew the risks.

I have only received death threats, not only because he abandoned my Islamic belief after he escaped to the Netherlands to escape from a marriage, but also to dare to condemn the perpetrators of 9/11 terrorist attacks as religious fanatics rather than political freedom fighters.

Fast until 2025.

Charlie Kirk, the most civilized men, met the same fate as Theo. What am I asking for? To do what he always does, to discuss students with civilization and good humor. He wasn’t a violent man. He was a gentle husband and the father of young children. And nevertheless, he was executed for believing in the country where the free speech was in the constitution of the establishment.

When Theo was killed, I have not yet seen that the activist left could reflect the persecution of Islamists. But today it is undeniable. Because the news about Kirk’s death was broken, left mourning. Celebrated. Crass jokes, open glee and social media full of self -esteem satisfaction. And the mainstream press was not very behind.

The effective sounds on the left said to him ‘controversial’, as if this label explained or excused his fate. The result was clear: Say what they don’t like and invite the assassin’s bullet. If you can, imagine the same words spoken in the midst of a progressive conversation. Hypocrisy is amazing.

Kirk leaves behind his wife Erika, an old female Arizona winner and two little children.

George Abaraonye, ​​the president of the Oxford Union, was carved.

This is really a man who hosts Charlie and argues. When you meet your opponent, there is a legend that hostility is decreasing and humanity has won victory. Not like that, it remained among the activist. Charlie himself warned us.

Earlier this year, he spoke about a ‘assassination culture’ spreading on the left with the uncanny prediction. Almost half of the liberals said that killing Elon Musk would at least be ‘a little right’ and the majority of Donald Trump said the same.

A retired California lawyer, ‘Luigi Mangione Health Law Access to the so -called health insurance to increase access to a legislation to increase the access to a promotional stunt drew attention.

Mangione, of course, is accused of blaming a General Manager of a Health Insurance in a wide -day light last December.

Charlie said how the activist excuses violence as long as he hit ‘appropriate’ targets.

In May, the murders of two young Israeli Embassy employees on the Washington DC were not met with fine pleasure, not mourning.

The pattern is painfully open: when violence hits the left, they celebrate. Charlie explained this tendency with creepy sensitivity: ‘Any mishap – losing an election or losing the court case – justifying a maximum violent response.’

Charlie Kirk (left) discusses George Abaraonye (right) at the Oxford Union in May 2025

20 -year -old Mr. Abaraonye, ​​after the shooting WhatsApp’a reportedly published his message.

The student relaxes in the union that needs to take over the prestigious presidency

For years, he called him the natural growth of a culture of protest that tolerates turmoil and political intimidation.

He saw the cowardice of local prosecutors who refused to prosecute violent gangs, the weakness of the school officials who surrendered to the radicals and warned that the left has become a ‘tickling time bomb’.

What looks like a comment was closer to the prophecy. Charlie’s real threat to the activist left has been carried out on campuses where she came to conquer not only in her message but to conquer in her post.

Long ago, including conservatives – including me – to defend academic freedom, to challenge the ideological corruption of higher learning, to return to complaints. These efforts were important, but none of them had Charlie’s access or resonance.

He went to the place where others hesitated: classrooms, student unions, discussion rooms. He took the struggle to the place where the new generation leaders were founded. And won.

Charlie was a pro-Christian, pro-Christian, pro-Israeli and pro-nuclear family. He treated patriotism as a virtue, not a virtue. He supported faith as the anchor of freedom. He called Israel a vital ally and condemned anti-Semitism wherever he appeared.

In a way, Western civilization became a spokesman for him. And first of all, he made him so hate.

The activist left is not just against policies. He despises the western idea as a noble thing. He hates the Jewish-Christian tradition. It enters the patriotism. It aims to erase the past to control the future.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination activist strengthened as a conservative martyr.

South Africa, London (Painting) and Australia, including commemoration activities, including the murder, after the murder of the world for Kirk seizures and tributes were held.

For them, Charlie Kirk was unbearable because it revealed the weakness of their beliefs. He did more than defending freedom. He inspired him loyalty.

He still believed that the West was the best hope for humanity – for all flaws. And despised for it. He was killed for this.

When Theo was killed, the Islamists danced with pleasure. And their nihilism was clearly spoken by the activist celebrated when Charlie was killed, some quietly.

Parallel is undeniable. Both groups refuse the reasoned discussion. Both are trying to destroy, not to argue. Both reveal themselves as destruction movements, not justice. Violence, intolerance and censorship are the distinguishing features of fundamentalist Islam, and they were all badly exhibited at Utah Valley University last week.

Just as Europe believes that Islamist violence could be contained, America is now deceiving itself about the danger of the radical left.

Charlie’s murder for the suspect arrested on Friday next to this point we know. The reaction to killing tells us the most important one.

Not only shocking action – the following joy. The laughter lifts the real face of the activist left.

Charlie warned us: ‘You really see the leftist because they are.’ Now we see. And the landscape is rebelling.

There are many corners of the society in which we can shine a torch light to hope to understand why. And I started with schools, colleges and universities where young people were shaped. These institutions were once dedicated to training and free investigation.

If we are going to honor Charlie’s life, we must take them back, and restore them as places where ideas are investigated instead of prohibiting them.

Because in the classroom – hearts are formed, the minds are molded and their motivations are adjusted – the struggle for the West will be won or lost.