Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamism, Iran and the West’s descent into barbarism

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Ayaan Hirsi Ali – founder of the AHA Foundation and the Restoration Bulletin – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the Iranian revolt against the ayatollahs, how Islamism enabled Britain’s grooming-gangs scandal, and how multiculturalism has institutionalised misogyny, sectarianism and anti-Semitism. EVENT: spiked is partnering with the Free Speech Union for ‘In Defence of Trial by Jury’, a live discussion on Thursday 29 January in London. spiked supporters and Free Speech Union members can get discounted tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/freespeechunion/2002087 Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.9	I pray for the Iranian people and I pray for the United States, Israel and the people of Iran to prevail over
0:51.8	this evil regime. What have you made of that kind of muted, cautious response from so-called progressive?
0:58.0	All those people who are saying, look at Gaza, look at what they're doing to the children.
1:03.0	That was all propaganda. They didn't have the slightest interest in the children of Gaza.
1:09.0	In Iran, women are tearing off their hijabs and getting rid of them, whereas in schools in
1:13.6	Britain, young girls are taught how to put a hijab on.
1:16.6	We've had the so-called grooming gangs, which are really gangs, and every institution
1:21.6	that could have stopped that, looked away, and the reason they'd give for looking away was
1:26.6	it couldn't judge it.
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