Brandeis University withdraws planned honorary degree for Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali

ap ^ | April 09, 2014

[george76]

Ali was raised in a strict Muslim family, but after surviving a civil war, genital mutilation, beatings and an arranged marriage, she renounced the faith in her 30s.

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Thomas Doherty, chairman of American studies, refused to sign the faculty letter. He said it would have been great for the university to honor "such a courageous fighter for human freedom and women's rights, who has put her life at risk for those values."

[allendale]

Yet universities routinely honor those who mock and insult Christianity. Sadly the United States has entered a neo pagan ,post Christian era of decadence and decline.

[LegendHasIt]

Good little Dhimmis.

[george76]

In 2004, Ali made a film with her friend, Theo Van Gogh. That film, “Submission,” is about the oppression of women in Islamic cultures.

After “Submission” was aired on Dutch television, an Islamic murdered Van Gogh . A letter pinned to his body contained a death threat to Ali. She eventually fled Holland .

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/brandeis-caves-to-pressure-withdraws-honor-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali/2014/04/09/

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Damn cowards.

[bicyclerepair]

Inbreeding really screws up a person.

[tet68]

This is really disgusting, a prime example of the
tyranny of the minority.
I suppose they would have barred Churchill as being
a naziphobe too.

A sad example of what PC and diversity have done
to the educational system in this country, a country
that used to pride itself as being free and supporting
freedom for all.

[SoFloFreeper]

Bigots.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"They're not interested in peace. I think that we are at war with Islam. And there's no middle ground in wars."

"...we cannot overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values."

What are those core values? Multiculturalism. Muslims have a right to practice their hatred because it's considered part of their culture. Renouncing such hatred makes you the hater instead.

"It is unconscionable that such a prestigious university would honor someone with such openly hateful views."

[Rummyfan]

He said it would have been great for the university to honor "such a courageous fighter for human freedom and women's rights, who has put her life at risk for those values."

Indeed she has. So why is Brandeis University withdrawing the honor?

[Telepathic Intruder]

"This makes Muslim students feel very uneasy," Joseph Lumbard, chairman of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, said in an interview. "They feel unwelcome here."
Always playing the victim, and liberals fall for it because that's their favorite card as well. I've heard one say he considers non-Muslims to be lower than dogs. She's correct when she says they do not want peace. And they don't care if they're welcome or not.

[Red in Blue PA]

Cowards everywhere! Absolutely pathetic.

[SunkenCiv]

Brandeis’ alumni contributors need to set the a-holes straight. And all gov’t support should be cut off if they pull this. Thanks george76.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ayaanhirsiali/index

[Red in Blue PA]

There once was a time when the persecuted were rallied behind. Now they are cast aside for fear that the offender will be offended.

Truly the Twilight Zone!

[AdmSmith]

Hopefully this is not the final decision, the money will not increase. http://giving.brandeis.edu/giving-opportunities/index.html

more info
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/04/09/shame-brandeis-university-submits-to-islam-withdraws-planned-honorary-degree-for-islam-critic-ayaan-hirsi-ali-after-she-was-smeared-by-cair/

[smalltownslick]

Isn’t Brandeis a Jewish university?

[silverleaf]

Muslims must be made to feel welcome at a university named after the first Jewish US Supreme Court justice, and look at how it increases their tolerance of his values of
individual liberty and free speech-

[silverleaf]

“sectarian”

JINO

[Telepathic Intruder]

Yeah, it’s always those demanding tolerance from others that are the least tolerant themselves. Another thing Muslims seem to have in common with liberals. Either the irony is lost on them or they don’t care.

[WayneS]

"This is a real slap in the face to Muslim students," said senior Sarah Fahmy, a member of the Muslim Student Association who created the petition said before the university withdrew the honor.

"But it's not just the Muslim community that is upset but students and faculty of all religious beliefs," she said. "A university that prides itself on social justice and equality should not hold up someone who is an outright Islamophobic."

First, Sarah Fahmy, go away! Go live in an islamic country. While you are there, have a muslim mutilate your sexual organs. Then, allow muslims to arrange an abusive marriage for you.

Be sure to stay there, keeping your mouth shut and wearing your burqha, living as female muslim in a fundamentalist Islamic country, for about 20 years, and THEN come back and call this brave woman "islamophobic", you spoiled, over-privileged, self-righteous little b!tch.