ayaan hirsi ali is author of the book and ayaan, good to see you again. when i looked at the articles they make no bones about how they feel about your book. including this from time magazine. they say your book reads like a homemade intellectual bomb the most vicious examples from muslim societies. and they say, your suggestion that muslims should question whether the koran is truly the word of god is not going to happen that you are being tone deaf. what say you? >> megyn, good to see you, what i say is there are two different tactics of silencing individuals like me who want to start the conversation about what in islam needs to change. and one tactic of course is the tactic that al qaeda uses, putting people like me on a hit list. it's very clear for them it's a different group that calls them the honor brigade, and they engage in character assassination, i want to say to the articles though books are not explosions, and they are not bombs. we need to end this crisis within islam. i mean any american who sees what's happening in yemen fwhb syria, in i

fran ago was assassinated and ayaan hirsi ali received death threats. she moved america in 2007 and obtained his citizenship in 2013 and co-founded her foundation. a fellow at the harvard center of international affairs and a visiting fellow at the a. e. i.. the topic of her talk today is clash of civilizations. isis, is long and the was. please join me with the warm national press club welcome to ayaan hirsi ali. [applause] >> thank you for having me back again at the national press club. i want to start by a acknowledging cruz who was a former president of the mayor can enterprise institute and among so many things he has done he brought me to america. thank you. [applause] when i was last here four and a half years ago was invited to come to speak to you on the proposition is long is a religion of tolerance. i don't know how far back your memory extends. the you will forgive me to enjoy this moment that then i took the position that it was not a religion of tolerance it was not a religion of peace. of course, october 2010 i acknowledged there are mil

we had on ayaan hirsi ali, who talked about reforming islam.med at us for your appearance. there are people sending us "don't trust this guy. he's a liar." mainly with seaworld twitter handle in the addresses. this is crazy. >> yes. >> jon: what is that? >> it is a cult-like mentality. you know, if you ever leave, and you dare speak out, this is what's going to happen to you. they're going to go after you viciously. they're going to try to silence you. and this is the reason why they have gotten away for decades with silencing trainers. >> jon: in your career-- so you're training whales-- at what point do you think to yourself "oh, this is a centient creature. and what i'm doing isn't right"? >> it's a great question because in the beginning you don't know what's normal from abnormal or from unhealthy. when you get into it in the beginning you think are all the dorsal fins like that collapsed in the wild? are all their teeth worn down like that in the wild? you just don't know. but once you realize these are the damaging effects from captivity,

ladies and gentlemen please join me in a warm national press club welcome for ayaan , hirsi ali.[applause] >> thank you, john, for having me back again at the national press club. i want to start by acknowledging chris demuth, who was the former president of the american enterprise institute and among so many things that he has done, he brought me to america. thank you. [applause] when i was last here about four 1/2 years ago and chris was here, i was invited to come and speak to you on the proposition, islam is a religion of tolerance. i don't know how far back your memory extend. but you will forgive me for enjoying this moment, that i back then took the position that islam was not a religion of tolerance, it was not a religion of peace. of course, in october 25, of 2010 that is the day was here, i acknowledged that there are millions and millions of muslims who are peace-loving and who are tolerant. but i was confident that islam not reformed as a creed was not peaceful or tolerant. in 2010, i publish ad book nomad, and this one chapter in there where i acknowledge that, okay,

ladies and gentlemen please inme in a warm national press club welcome for ayaan hirsi ali. [applause] ayaan: thank you john, for having me back again at the national press club. i want to start by acknowledging chris demuth the former president and among so many things that he has done, he route me to america. thank you. [applause] ayaan: when i was last year about 4 1/2 years ago and chris was here i was up invited to come and speak to you on the proposition islam is a religion of tolerance. i don't know how far back your memory extends. but you will forgive me for enjoying this moment that i back then took the position that islam was not a religion of tolerance, it was not a religion of peace. of course, in october 25 of 20150, that2010the day i was here i acknowledged that there are millions and millions of muslims who are peace loving and who he are tolerant. but i was confident that islam as a creed was neither peaceful nor tolerant. in 2010 i published a book and there is one chapter in there where i acknowledge that okay, i was born into islam and through an evolutio

later, a best-selling author ayaan hirsi ali. from the national press club at 1:00 eastern. announcer: during this month c-span is pleased to present the winners of the student can competition, the annual competition that encourages middle and high school students to think radically about issues that affect the nation. students were asked to create a documentary based on the theme "the three branches and you" demonstrate how a policy law or action by one of the three branches of government affected them or their community. shannon lamb, faith burton, and britney erickson from easton middle school in silver spring, maryland, are one of our second prize winners. their entry focuses on cultural sensitivity. >> as the leaves change color all of american minds turned to football. among the nation's fall football fever, the washington redskins are causing a nationwide controversy on the question of whether their name and mascot is offensive and should be changed. [music plays] on june 18 2014, the united states patent office, part of the executive branch of government, canceled th

[cheers and applause] [applause] >> next, author and activist ayaan hirsi ali talks about the militant group isis islam and the west. her latest book is "heretic: why islam needs a reformation now." the national press club hosted this one-hour event. >> i want to start by acknowledging the former president of the american enterprise institute and do so many things that he has done he brought me to america. thank you. [applause] when i was last year about four and a half years ago and this was here i was invited to come and speak to you on the proposition islam is a religion of tolerance. i don't know how far back your memory extends. the you're going to forgive me for enjoying this moment that i back then to the position that islam was not a religion of tolerance. it was not a religion of peace. of course in october 25 of 2010 the day i was here i acknowledged that there is millions and millions of muslims who are peaceloving and who are tolerant. but i was confident that islam unreformed as a creed was neither peaceful nor tolerant. in 2010 i published a book "nomad." there is one cha