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What Was Brandeis Thinking When It Invited Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Speak?
New York Magazine ^ | 4/15 | Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Posted on 04/15/2014 2:12:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 04/15/2014 2:12:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 04/15/2014 2:16:20 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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There’s a Muslim Student Organization at Brandeis?


3 posted on 04/15/2014 2:16:23 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Cruz/Palin 2016)
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Tell the truth about islam, and you get speaking dates revoked.


4 posted on 04/15/2014 2:17:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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This article deftly illustrates why and how we are losing a war with a 7th Century tribal cult.


5 posted on 04/15/2014 2:17:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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Brandeis rejected her because they were afraid that they would end up like Van Gogh...they didn’t want to be on the list of 1000 jihadis, marked for death...It was cowardice, pure and simple...

A feminist who trashes Christianity would never be “disinvited” because the Bradeis president wouldn’t be living in mortal fear for letting her speak.

It really is that simple.


6 posted on 04/15/2014 2:18:18 PM PDT by Tulane
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It’s not that “we’re losing” but rather exposes the collaborators with the other side.


7 posted on 04/15/2014 2:19:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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I’ll bet there’s one at every major, minor and pissant college in North and South America and Europe. As a matter of fact, I’ll bet every cosmetology, truck driving, court reporter, medical technician and cooking school will have one before the decade is out. Just for giggles I searched the two closest to me, UNT and TWU:

https://www.facebook.com/untmsa

http://prezi.com/zzujjjgyamm8/womens-muslim-project/

Yep!


8 posted on 04/15/2014 2:22:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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"Tell the truth about islam, and you get speaking dates revoked."

Leftists everywhere are like that about everything...they hate truth.

9 posted on 04/15/2014 2:26:23 PM PDT by blam
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Franklin Graham, the Pentagon, and National Day of Prayer
April 24, 2010 by strengthenedbygrace
Simple but good commentary by Crosstalk:

Rev. Franklin Graham has been uninvited to the Pentagon prayer service because of his true and biblical statements about Islam. Two points:

1. The US military is increasingly going on record as hostile to historic Christianity. They want an American civil religion that passes politically correct muster. That civil religion would include most of the other religions of the world…except Christianity. Not surprisingly, an Islamic cleric, known for his anti-Christian hate speech, is attending the Pentagon prayer service in good standing with our military.

2. The outrageous double standard aside, Franklin Graham should take it as a compliment that he was uninvited to the American pantheon of idols to offer up a prayer along with the pagans. God is not honored by these heathen American solemn assemblies where they pray to the moon god, or the thousands of gods of Hinduism or any other counterfeit god of mankind’s imagination and then intone the name of the Almighty as though He is just one of many. It’s an insult to the One True and Living God to participate in such an event.

http://strengthenedbygrace.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/franklin-graham-the-pentagon-and-national-day-of-prayer/


10 posted on 04/15/2014 2:28:28 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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MS. Ali is a hero. The author is a coward.


11 posted on 04/15/2014 2:29:30 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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Instead it found that, in the eyes of many of its members, she was someone animated by simplistic sectarian hate.

That's like not accepting Dr. Martin Luther King because the KKK said he was motivated by simplistic racial hate.

Aayan is the VICTIM of Muslim hate, and Brandeis is rubbing salt deep into the wound, while encouraging Muslims to continue what they've done to her and other women to come.

12 posted on 04/15/2014 2:30:38 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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Brandeis made the mistake, briefly, of thinking that standing up for women is in the leftist agenda and so they would be safe. They quickly learned it’s fine to mutilate any woman who would criticize any of the other pillars of radical leftism. One of those is support for fanatical Islamists.


13 posted on 04/15/2014 2:31:29 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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Conservatives have since denounced Brandeis for suppressing free speech...

Where are the liberal voices? Where are the feminist voices? Where are the voices of the free speech advocates, the civil liberties defenders? These are people who pride themselves on fighting for human rights, but in practice they only fight people who don't fight back.

14 posted on 04/15/2014 2:32:57 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Not sure about that, but it is certain that their board has given CAIR veto power over any decisions they make.


15 posted on 04/15/2014 2:34:25 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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A surprisingly balanced article, considering the source, except for the last sentence or two.

This struck me.

Hirsi Ali had suggested in a 2007 interview with Reason magazine that "Islam, period" — not its radical or militant form — needed to be "defeated. Once it’s defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful."

Since "Islam -period," not its radical or militant form, proclaims the need to fight until all others have accepted the rule of Islam, why can't the rest of us recognize the need to fight till "Islam - period" is defeated?

Isn't Ali's position just the inverse of that of "Islam-period?"

16 posted on 04/15/2014 2:34:48 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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“that she served as the screenwriter for an anti-Islamist film provocative enough that its Dutch director, Theo van Gogh, was murdered”

This is a reprehensible and disgusting statement by the author of this.


17 posted on 04/15/2014 2:36:11 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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Islam “destructive, nihilistic cult of death”

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


18 posted on 04/15/2014 2:40:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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So I’m not getting an honorary degree for speakin on “Islam, the Gay Pedophile Death Cult”?


19 posted on 04/15/2014 3:36:45 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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Hey I still can’t figure out how come Brandeis invited a Jew Hater to the campus and gave that person an honorary degree..oh yeah, NOW I remember, because like all libs, they despise Jews


20 posted on 04/15/2014 3:48:05 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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