It’s amazing how “liberals” defend islam at every turn, yet islam stands for everything the libs pretend to stand against.

Murder. Rape. Corperal punishment. Violence. Oppression of women and minorities and homosexuals. Female genital mutilation. Wife beating. Child beating. Religious apartied. Religious fundamentalism. Religious compulsion. High birth rates. Multiple wives. Anti-art, no paintings of people, no statues of people. Oil based economies. The list goes on and on, yet the libs would rather beat up on somebody like our beloved AHA because they know she’s not gonna KILL anybody.
Tony737 on March 5, 2007 at 8:38 PM

Amazing indeed!

From the Newsweek Books review: By age 14, Somalia-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali had survived genital mutilation at the hands of her grandmother, a fractured skull from her Qur’an teacher and brutal beatings from her devout Muslim mother. By comparison, her father was kind. The Somali rebel, who had largely abandoned his family to plan coups and marry three more women, only meddled when it came to arranging his 23-year-old daughter’s marriage. When Ayaan refused, he disowned her.
This is how Newsweek Books portrays this courageous woman in the opening paragraph yet they have the audacity to ask “But how fair is the book?” Just what would it take the reviewer for Newsweek Books to accept the cruelty of Islamic teachings in her country, actually having that culture forced upon the entire USA? Sometimes I fear that is the only way Newsweek and other MSM will accept the realities that exist in the world.

Newsweek Books destroyed any credibility in their “review” of the book when they titled it “Only One Side of the Story.” They are the ones that are portraying only one side, and that side is that this woman is wrong about Islam. Too bad for Newsweek Books, they are the ones that are wrong and many people will learn from her book.

RedinBlueCounty on March 5, 2007 at 6:16 PM

No doubt the folks at Newsweek Books thought just as highly of Nonie Darwish’s Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror or Brigitte Gabriel’s Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America.

It’s amazing how “liberals” defend islam at every turn, yet islam stands for everything the libs pretend to stand against.

Murder. Rape. Corperal punishment. Violence. Oppression of women and minorities and homosexuals. Female genital mutilation. Wife beating. Child beating. Religious apartied. Religious fundamentalism. Religious compulsion. High birth rates. Multiple wives. Anti-art, no paintings of people, no statues of people. Oil based economies. The list goes on and on, yet the libs would rather beat up on somebody like our beloved AHA because they know she’s not gonna KILL anybody.

How can you change the lives of your former sisters, and work toward reform, when you’ve forged a career upon renouncing the religion and insulting its followers?

Another quote from the review. I wonder the reviewer would have felt the same about, oh, SLAVERY? I can just imagine this reviewer asking: “How can you expect to stop slavery if you insult the people that keep slaves?”

Hay Newsweek, there’s an old saying that that you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. You can’t speak out against an oppressive religion or culture without insulting those that believe in that religion or culture and you can’t reform a system by pretending to abide by it.

From the Newsweek Books review: By age 14, Somalia-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali had survived genital mutilation at the hands of her grandmother, a fractured skull from her Qur’an teacher and brutal beatings from her devout Muslim mother. By comparison, her father was kind. The Somali rebel, who had largely abandoned his family to plan coups and marry three more women, only meddled when it came to arranging his 23-year-old daughter’s marriage. When Ayaan refused, he disowned her.

This is how Newsweek Books portrays this courageous woman in the opening paragraph yet they have the audacity to ask “But how fair is the book?” Just what would it take the reviewer for Newsweek Books to accept the cruelty of Islamic teachings in her country, actually having that culture forced upon the entire USA? Sometimes I fear that is the only way Newsweek and other MSM will accept the realities that exist in the world.

Newsweek Books destroyed any credibility in their “review” of the book when they titled it “Only One Side of the Story.” They are the ones that are portraying only one side, and that side is that this woman is wrong about Islam. Too bad for Newsweek Books, they are the ones that are wrong and many people will learn from her book.

I even like the cantankerous person. Life, when viewed realistically, makes one that way, at least sometimes.

Nice WH Auden quote from Hitchens. My favorite WH Auden epigram also fits Ms. Ali:

“Let us honor, if we can, the vertical man
Though we value none but the horizontal one.”

Just to be clear, the “we” refers to tired European elites.

From Newsweek: “It was not a lunatic fringe who felt this way about America and the West. I knew that a vast majority of Muslims would see the attacks as justified retaliation against the infidel enemies of Islam.”

The Newsweek author singled out this quote about Atta et al to illustrate Ali’s obsession with the character of Islam.
Is this really to be argued anymore? Outside of the US, even in England, a large majority of Muslims felt that the 911 attacks were not only justified but overdue. Seriously, is there any merit to an argument about this? I don’t think so.
This is almost embarassing to admit but Ms. Ali intimidates me, astonishes me. She just seems to have this aura about her that makes me feel like an intellectual and moral dwarf (okay, little person). That she is only thirty-eight years old and commands such personal force is humbling to this old man.

(Hitch, that is.)

AP, your “full lizard treatment” link is broken.

Works for me. And real baptism by blockquote would be a violation of fair use.

“Baptism by blockquote?” As opposed to sprinkling or immersion?

Your metaphor generator is in overdrive today.

Regarding Hitchens’s question, it’s simple: the confluence of cultural Marxism and political pragmatism. Radical Islam’s goals and the goals of leftists world-wide are concurrent in the short term.

The cultural Marxists are basically bored nihilists looking for the next kick, the next set of broadly accepted standards to destroy, and the political leftists seek to subjugate the masses through fear and bureaucratically enforced apathy. Everything they accuse corporate AmeriKKKa and Bush of doing, they’ve been trying to do it since the 1960′s.

At the end of the day, they expect to drop the hammer of police state and establish total control. What self-respecting prole wouldn’t cry for permanent martial law after he’s watched his city burn for a few years?

They’ve functionally accomplished this in Europe, if only they could get rid of gadflies like AHA would have the gall to actually take the tenets of the Enlightenment seriously. Oh, wait…

The irony…oh the irony…this is the liberal mindset that so many yearn to follow.