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Thursday, April 10. 2014

Hirsi Ali

Impressive speech about women's rights around the world. Why do American feminists hate her? And how is her English so good, given her background?



Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:36 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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It doesn't make sense to me that feminists would hate this woman. If the hateful feminists were real activists, they'd be appalled by the FGM and honor killings taking place. But instead you hear crap about letting the FGM continue because it's part of a religion and people should have freedom of religion (unless of course you believe in Jesus Christ as Lord).
#1 Ohboy on 2014-04-10 13:24 (Reply)
Feminists hate her because she exposes them for what they are - Politically correct socialist cowards.
#1.1 NJSoldier on 2014-04-10 16:02 (Reply)
Brandeis hates her because she is a women and black
#2 Joel on 2014-04-10 13:31 (Reply)
Progressives hate conservatives but at least they know where we stand. There is a "special" hatred that is reserved for a "traitor".
#2.1 Deepred on 2014-04-10 13:46 (Reply)
I too have wondered about her command of English. My guess is smart as hell with a gift for languages. Remarkable woman.
#3 RickinNC on 2014-04-10 14:00 (Reply)
In Netherlands, she found work as an Somali-Dutch interpreter working with recent immigrants, she speaks Somali, Arabic, Swahili, Amharic.

Raised in a mud hut, VERY remarkable. She has all my respect.
#3.1 John the River (Link) on 2014-04-10 17:38 (Reply)
I like the courage that it took her to say this to a crowd that didn't really want to hear it. It is courage to tell an inconvenient truth, but I expect that of her, given her courage in breaking with Islam already.

I am not holding my breath that she will be received as she should by a chastized group of femanists. That is too much to hope for. If that ever happened, then feminists in America might actually start to rail against the hip-hop culture which perpetrates mysogeny at a breathtaking pace.

I know. I know. But I can dream, can't I?
#4 Dangerous Dean on 2014-04-10 15:14 (Reply)
Hirsi Ali attended the English-language Muslim Girls' Secondary School.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
#5 Richard Quigley on 2014-04-10 15:41 (Reply)
Maybe their curriculum should replace Common Core. Better yet, put their faculty and administrators in charge of the Department of Education .
#5.1 BillH on 2014-04-10 17:37 (Reply)
From reading her book/autobiography Infidel, I think she also read a lot of English romance novels as a kid, as many as she could get her hands on.
#5.2 trey on 2014-04-11 23:26 (Reply)
'Fess up, guys--how many of you are in love with her already?
#6 John on 2014-04-10 19:45 (Reply)
She reminds me of Joseph Conrad in her acquisition and facility with languages.
#7 Jewel (Link) on 2014-04-10 23:48 (Reply)

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