There is a story on Ace of Spades that I’ve been following.  I find it interesting.

THE MORNING RANT: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Latest Religious Conversion & the Act of Choosing to Become a Christian

—Buck Throckmorton

Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently announced that she has decided to become a Christian. She had previously renounced the Islamic faith of her youth, embracing atheism while also educating westerners on the truth about the teachings and practices of radical Islam.

Ms. Ali was born and raised in Somalia.  There as young girl she suffered the Islamic practice of ‘female circumcision’.  Performed by her grandmother with a piece of broken glass. Years later she was sent to marry an older man in Belgium.

In Belgium she got an education, broke free from Islam, served in elective office and had a friend murdered in cold blood by Islamic radicals.  She was placed under a sentence of death herself for renouncing Islam; writing and speaking out against it. That death sentence is still binding on the followers of radical Islam.

As far as her conversion to Christianity,  it seems that many criticize her for her reasons and lack of any mention of Jesus Christ.

Seth Dillon

There’s a big difference between believing that Christian values are good for the world and believing in Jesus Christ as your savior. There’s no mention of Jesus in this conversion story.

Well, if she simply admires the Liturgy of Christian worship, it’s vestments and music but isn’t that attached to the tenets of the faith.  I think that makes her very much a modern Episcopalian.  She does see the Christian faith as a bulwark against the forces arrayed against Western Civilization.

Returning to Ms. Ali, she now considers herself a “lapsed atheist,” and having made the decision to become a Christian, she is seeking to learn how to practice Christianity.

The lesson I learned from my years with the Muslim Brotherhood was the power of a unifying story, embedded in the foundational texts of Islam, to attract, engage and mobilise the Muslim masses. Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilisation will continue. And fortunately, there is no need to look for some new-age concoction of medication and mindfulness. Christianity has it all.

That is why I no longer consider myself a Muslim apostate, but a lapsed atheist. Of course, I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity. I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognised, in my own long journey through a wilderness of fear and self-doubt, that there is a better way to manage the challenges of existence than either Islam or unbelief had to offer.

I found her earlier book “Infidel” quite enthralling. Perhaps she will be given a ‘leg up’ with her own version of  The Road to Damascus,  perhaps she will find her own way and that way may be more appropriate to the 21st Century then the first.

And maybe that personal way and her future writings on that journey may lead more people to Christ than if she simply accepted the way that everyone else thinks she should find The Lord.