Jarek:
Q11: Due to understandable reasons you and your cooperators working for the FFI remain in anonymity, Ali Sina is not your real name. However, have you ever considered the option to go public, to stand for your cause in politics? Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Oriana Fallaci, Robert Spencer, now the Jyllands Posten cartoonists, they all risk their lives for their right to criticize Islam. Maybe people will have to deal with your ideas more seriously, if you take the risk and appear in television, for example. There is always the risk of ending up like Theo van Gogh, but is the case not worth the risk?  

Sina:
In nowhere I have made any statements on my name.  This is something that the Wikipedians have said. How do they know? Wikipedia is not a reliable source. But why my name should be important? Suppose Ali Sina is a pseudonym, does this make my arguments less valid? Ali Dashti also published his book "The 23 Years of Prophetic Career" anonymously at first and Ibn Warraq also uses a pseudonym. What is important here is the message not the messenger. We are dispensable, but this message must be delivered and of course the chance of delivering it increases substantially while we still breath.    

Why I don’t like to be on TV? For several reasons. The first and foremost is that I am a private person. Some people give an arm and a leg to be on TV and have their 15 minutes of fame. I enjoy my privacy more than anything else. Each person is made differently. I don't like to become a celebrity. I don’t like to be under the spotlight. I have never been the soul of the party and frankly don't attend them much. My greatest pleasures are reading, writing and exploring the beauties of the nature. I will never run for politics. Public life is not for me. I like simplicity not extravagance. I like modesty not flamboyance. Apart from that, I know that I won’t be able to enjoy my walks when I have to constantly look over my shoulders to see whether a bearded guy is approaching with a concealed knife. Ayaan Hirsi Ali has bodyguards, courtesy of the Dutch government. It means she has little freedom. I can’t afford bodyguards and don't want to live like that. I live in a sleepy little town in this great land called America where I see more deer than humans and hardly a Muslim. Knowing that I am safe, gives me the freedom to write anything I want and this is an awesome freedom. 

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