Richard Silverstein is a Seattle-based blogger who is virulently anti-Israel. If I recall, he has been referenced here on this site recently, probably a cross-posting from Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers.
Yes, here it is. Silverstein is the guy who attacked a black female college student named Chloe Valdary, who is a supporter of Israel. Implied she was an "Uncle Tom"-type. Classy. That is Richard Silverstein.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-black-supporter-of-israel-gets-uncle.html
In this latest burp from his blog, Silverstein attacks Muslim apostate, Islam critic (and fatwa target) Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/04/04/brandeis-awards-islamophobe-ayan-hirsi-ali-honorary-degree/
This post is currently cross-posted by Loon Watch, an Islamic site that goes after counter-jihadists or those who speak out about extremist Islam.
Though I assume Mr Silverstein is Jewish (by his name though I could be wrong; Alfred Rosenberg was anything but Jewish), he and his followers are quick to link people like Ali with the usual pro-Israel Jewish organizations or individuals.
However, there are a couple of points about Ali that they can't quite get around. Ali was herself Muslim. Is it not possible (all but certain, actually) that her experiences growing up Muslim are the reasons for her attitude toward the faith of her birth?
Perhaps it has also something to do with what happened to her colleague, Theo Van Gogh, in the Netherlands. They made a film together called Submission that dealt with women in Islam, much like her current film, Honor Diaries. As a result, Van Gogh was murdered on a Dutch street-nearly decapitated. The killer made it clear that Ali was to be next. She has lived under security ever since due to the continuing death threats.
For making a film critical of Islam.
You might want to cut her some slack, Mr Silverstein.
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One of the comment's in this idiot's article is
"Hirsi Ali also is a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. It’s no coincidence that her husband, Niall Ferguson, is also a fellow there. Who said academic opportunities are awarded based on merit?"
It just happens that I am currently reading Ferguson's book on the history of the British empire so his name jumped out to me.
Among his other qualifications, aside from being married to Hirsi Ali, are that he is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, University of Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His speciality is international history, economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views.
He has published FOURTEEN books.
They include Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and Civilization: The West and the Rest, all of which he has presented as Channel 4 television series.
In 2004, he was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Since 2011, he has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek.
This is a resumé that Silverstein could only aspire to in his wet dreams.
I doubt that a single Muslim who read this insinuation that Ferguson got his position there (or the other way around) because of his relationship with Ali actually knows who he is. I know NONE of them will call Silverstein on it.
I'll try posting it on his site but it won't be put up on the site.
Insofar as the comments she supposedly made, I agree with them! The Islamic religion has to have a reformation or there will never be peace in the world.
Silverstein makes about as much sense, and has as much credibility, as Phyllis Schlafley. If takes offense at that comparison, offense was given.
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