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Last updated on August 5th, 2017 at 03:06 pm
The New Republic’s Paul Berman on hostility towards Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
Something like a campaign against Hirsi Ali could never have taken place a few years ago. A sustained attack on an authentic liberal dissident crying out against injustices in remote parts of the world and even in the back streets of western Europe, a sustained attack that appears nearly to have erased the mention of women’s oppression and the struggle for women’s rights from discussion – no, this could not have happened yesterday, except on the extreme Right.
This is a new event. This is a reactionary turn in the intellectual world.
And it’s coming from the likes of lefty feminist Kim, who writes about a woman mutilated as a child, in accordance with tribal Muslim custom:
Her view on Islam is too much coloured by her own experience …
Not much you can really say about that, is there?
UPDATE. Aaron emails: “You said there’s not much more to say about Kim criticizing Hirsi Ali. Frankly, sure there is.”
