Hat tip Creeping Sharia
In this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes what she would have told the students and faculty at Brandeis.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304512504579493410287663906?mod=rss_opinion_main&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304512504579493410287663906.html%3Fmod%3Drss_opinion_main
Pity. The students at Brandeis could have learned so much from this remarkable woman. The truth is Brandeis doesn't deserve Ali.
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When I see millions of women in Afghanistan defying threats from the Taliban and lining up to vote; when I see women in Saudi Arabia defying an absurd ban on female driving; and when I see Tunisian women celebrating the conviction of a group of policemen for a heinous gang rape, I feel more optimistic than I did a few years ago. The misnamed Arab Spring has been a revolution full of disappointments. But I believe it has created an opportunity for traditional forms of authority—including patriarchal authority—to be challenged, and even for the religious justifications for the oppression of women to be questioned.
This is the heart of her speech. The introduction was a bit stilted, but this is where the rubber meets the road.
Oh, and don't you miss Hussein al-Takriti? Relatively speaking? Pity he was such an egomaniac, but his program was much better than the one we seem to have fought to install.
Was that Saddam Hussein? He was better? OK.
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