Islam "has begotten a bloodthirsty ideology that is determined to destroy the principles of liberty and humanity and basic decency," ex-Muslim and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali said June 3 at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Hirsi Ali knows what she's talking about.  Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, she was raised Muslim.  She spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia.  She fled as a refugee to the Netherlands in 1992, where she earned a political science degree and was elected to the Dutch House of Representatives.  After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Hirsi Ali renounced Islam. Last week she accepted an award from the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which prides itself on "strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it."  Some in the conservative movement refer to the annual Bradley Prizes event,...(Read Full Article)