[Dean's World] Dave Price: Welcome to America

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Posted by Dave Price:
Welcome to America
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1147788750.shtml


   [1]Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch MP who has been a leading critic of
   Islamofascism, is [2]coming to America. I guess she's part of those
   "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." And she's pretty
   [3]hot-looking and articulate, as huddled masses go.
   She's coming here partly because her fellow Amsterdam tenants decided
   that since she was being threatened by radical Muslim terrorists for
   espousing her ideals, the logical, moral thing to do was to kick her
   out of the building on the grounds her presence endangered them. That
   kind of feckless cowardice is frankly despicable, and while I donât
   know for sure that such a thing has never happened in the United
   States, it sounds very un-American and I hope it wouldn't be tolerated
   in a country with our commitment to freedom of speech, a commitment
   which is often sorely lacking across the pond. Generally, we try to
   punish the guilty rather than the bravely innocent.
   Her story is rather amazing. At the age of 5, she was subjected to
   ritual genital mutilation. At 22, she was forced into marriage by her
   family, but fled and eventually received asylum in Amsterdam.
   Attending college while working menial cleaning jobs, she became an
   outspoken critic of Islamic repression, documenting abuses of women
   and condemning multiculturalism as incompatible with individual
   rights. She received credible death threats and was forced to go into
   hiding even as she was elected to Dutch parliament. Finally, she
   accepted a position at the conservative think tank [4]American
   Enterprise Institute, certainly a great prize for them (meanwhile
   "liberal" Yale has [5]other priorities; oh, the irony!).
   So welcome to America, Ms. Ali, and know that here your freedoms are
   held sacred.
   (h/t [6]Jeff G)

References

   1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
   2. http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=30003&name=Hirsi+Ali+to+leave+Netherlands+for+job+with+US+think+tank+
   3. http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1146767112.shtml
   4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
   5. http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Yale+Taliban
   6. http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/20313/