Posted on 09/15/2014 8:31:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To the Yale Muslim Students Association and its many sister organizations that have co-signed a letter protesting Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s lecture on Monday:
I love your new free-speech concept! Obviously this woman should have been banned from campus and had her face stomped in; why couldn’t they have just quietly murdered her in Holland along with her fellow discomfort-creators? These people are worse than tweed underwear! They practically live to make undergraduates uncomfortable. But let’s deal with the harsh realities. Your inspired suggestion, having Official Correctors speak right after Ali to remind students of the authorized view of Muslim society, is the most exciting new development in Free Speech since the Inquisition — everyone will be talking about it! You have written, with great restraint, about “how uncomfortable it will be” for your friends if this woman is allowed to speak. Uncomfortable nothing. The genital mutilation of young girls is downright revolting! Who ever authorized this topic in a speech to innocent Yale undergraduates? Next thing you know, people will be saying that some orthodox Muslim societies are the most cruel and benighted on earth and that Western societies are better than they are (better!) merely because they don’t sexually mutilate young girls! Or force them into polygamous marriages, countenance honor killings, treat women as the property of their male relations, and all that. Can’t they give it a rest? You’d think someone was genitally mutilating them.
We all know that Free Speech doesn’t mean that just anyone can stand up and start spouting. Would you let your dog talk for an hour to a Yale student audience? What’s next, inviting Dick Cheney? Careful study of contemporary documents makes it perfectly clear that when the Bill of Rights mentions Free Speech, it is alluding to Freedom of Speech for the Muslim Students Association at Yale. We all know that true free speech means freedom to shut up, especially if you disagree with your betters. And true free thought means freedom to stop thinking as soon as the official truth is announced by the proper Authorities — and freedom to wait patiently until then.
Now take this Ayaan Hirsi Ali. First of all, she’s a black woman, and they’re not quite ready for prime time, know what I mean? And she’s against the systematic abuse of women in Muslim societies. What about people who are for the systematic abuse of women in Muslim societies? Furthermore, she lacks “representative scholarly qualifications.” Want the whole campus flooded with quacks expressing their so-called opinions based on “experience” and “knowledge” instead of academic authority? And she’s Dutch. More or less. Enough said.
Thank you for protecting us from having to listen to uncensored ideas and make up our own minds, Yale Muslim Students Association. Or at least trying. We will treasure your letter and keep it under our pillows forever.
— David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University.
For those who don’t know the author, David Hillel Gelernter, He is known for contributions to parallel computation and for books on topics including computed worlds (”Mirror Worlds”), and what he sees as the destructive influence of liberal academia on American society, expressed most recently in his book America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats).
He was sent a mail bomb in the post by Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, which almost killed him and left him with some permanent disabilities: he lost the use of his right hand and his right eye was permanently damaged
We all might as well sing “Everything is Awesome!”
This guy is in for some serious hate mail.
“free of offending words”
From post 2, it sounds like he’s already got sustained damage from earlier hate mail - from the Unabomber.
I think he knows what’s at stake here. Way past time for the rest of the country to also realize what is at stake.
great line: everyone will be talking about it.
Its so reassuring when courageous people step forward.
bttt
mohammed was a child rapist.
What is the Islamic apologist’s response to that if it were ever brought up?
Hate crime and hate speech laws were created to put Whites in jail for anything they say or do, and to set free non-Whites who physically assault Whites.
Me: “mohammed was a child rapist.”
You: “What is the Islamic apologist’s response to that if it were ever brought up?”
muslims reply that:
“things were different back then when mohammed married Aisha. 9 years old was old enough and culturally many girls were married off then.”
Perverts.
Prof. David Gelernter was a recipient of one of the Unabomber's special packages.
He was permanently injured as a result, but is one of the few who survived.
So true, the left always tries to silence criticism, one way or another.
The truth is like Kryptonite to them.
So true, the left always tries to silence criticism, one way or another.
The truth is like Kryptonite to them.
They desperately want to "continuously interrupt" the internet, and they will if they get the chance.
Wow - the author has just made my heros list...
just wow!
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- Homo Hussein Electus junior (or we will loot, burn, kill)
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At the time, I was tempted to comment "Imagine how much attention this would receive on FR if the title were 'Allah and Ali at at Harvard'."
I went back today and checked; there are only six comments to the Allah and Ali and Yale article.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention again.
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