CAIR has never been outspoken against murderous Islam for 9/11 and all their other forms of terror but it is always protesting truth and honor when anyone speaks out about Islam. Unfortunately for US, the press, this administration and higher education are now just CAIR's sycophants. CAIR is the Al Sharpton for the Muslim Terrorists in this world. It deals in lies, twisted phrases and intimidation that needs to be stood-up to, and has not been. m/r
Rank Appeasement by Bruce Bawer, City Journal 10 April 2014
BRUCE BAWER
Rank Appeasement
Brandeis University’s shameful abandonment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
10 April 2014
A few years ago, when While Europe Slept, my book about the Islamization of Europe, was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism, the writer announcing the finalists in that category called it “racism as criticism.” This smear, from a person I’d never heard of—and whose opinion of my book would otherwise not have merited any notice—wound up getting more media attention than the nomination itself.
So I think I know how Ayaan Hirsi Ali must feel after Brandeis University, which had announced plans to award her an honorary degree at its commencement ceremony next month, changed its mind this week. “She is a compelling public figure and advocate for women’s rights, and we respect and appreciate her work to protect and defend the rights of women and girls throughout the world,” the university said in a statement. But the school “cannot overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University’s core values.” The news of this reprehensible insult has gone around the world, turning, as Hirsi Ali herself put it, an intended honor “into a moment of shaming.”
Brandeis’s about-face came in response to several irate demands that Hirsi Ali be disinvited: an online petition that garnered several thousand signatures; a letter signed by about a quarter of the Brandeis faculty; and, last but not least, a statement by the Council on American-Islamic Relations labeling her a “notorious Islamophobe.” In the face of these complaints, Brandeis caved. “Core values,” indeed! They obviously don’t include decency or courage. Welcome to the twenty-first-century American academy, a moral bubble in which “core values” are little more than a pusillanimous mush of multicultural dogma and PC platitudes. In such an environment, the towering strength of an Ayaan Hirsi Ali—whose remarkable journey has taught her uncomfortable but vital truths about Islam, and whose conscience and courage have impelled her to articulate those truths at grave risk to her own life—is not only alien, but anathema.
At Brandeis, of course, it’s fine to criticize Christianity and Judaism, and to savage America and Israel.
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