Wednesday, April 9, 2014

The Shame Of Brandeis --First Condi at Rutgers--and now this outrage. Attention nat'l media!

The Shame Of Brandeis --First Condi at Rutgers--and now this outrage. Attention nat'l media!

April 09, 2014 Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Brandeis University 3 Comments
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
By John Podhoretz, Apr. 9, 2014, Commentarymagazine.com

If you have not yet heard, Brandeis University has rescinded its offer of an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born activist whose work has focused on the barbaric misogyny rampant in Islamic societies like the one in which she was raised—and whose efforts to call attention to them as a legislator in the Netherlands led to a political crisis there and her eventual flight to the United States.

Given that it only takes a Google search to find out everything one would need to know about her, including the controversial aspects of her views, it is laughable for Brandeis President Fred Lawrence to claim he had to withdraw the degree because of information he had only lately discovered. Ayaan Hirsi Ali said this afternoon that she was not surprised she came under attack from demagogic apologists like the Council on American Islamic Relations: She has come to expect such things.

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3 comments:

  1. Warrior L.A.April 9, 2014 at 11:25 PM

    Liberals CANNOT handle a different point of view. It's their way or the highway. #Fascists

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  2. AnonymousApril 10, 2014 at 4:33 AM

    Petition other colleges to award this degree.

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  3. AnonymousApril 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM

    So sorry that this is my alma mater. Their liberalism has sunk to a new low.

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