
By: http://nathanlean.com
Source: http://nathanlean.com/
The controversy over Brandeis University’s decision to withdraw its honorary degree invitation to Somali-born American activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali is puzzling. Not because it wasn’t the right decision it was but because of two specific ways that the school, major media organizations, and Hirsi Ali’s supporters and detractors described her.
The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Fox News, the BBC, and dozens of other outlets referred to Hirsi Ali as a “critic of Islam.”
A “critic.”
That’s a lukewarm description for someone who has expressed her support for defeating Islam (not extremists, but the entire faith) by military means if necessary. Let’s be clear: Such measures do not constitute “criticism.” Instead, they are dangerously close to advocating genocide.
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