Brandeis University cancelled a commencement speech by Aayan Hirsi Ali, who is trying to spread the word about how woman are anbused under Sharia Law and Muslim rule. Ali has been trying to promote The Honor Diaries, which has been featured on the Megyn Kelly several times. So guess who forced Brandeis from allowing Aayan Hirsi Ali to speak. None other than the so called feminists who always whine in this country how woman are treated. Apparently, the feminists of Brandeis University are cool with Muslim’s mulitating the genitals of woman, stoning and raping, as long as they are given free abortions or something.
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| Brandeis Feminist Faculty Led Petition Against Aayan Hirsi Ali |
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The wretched cowardice of Brandeis University in rescinding an honorary degree for human rights activist Aayan Hirsi Ali surprised a lot of people. A victim of female genital mutilation (FGM), Ali was the target of terroristic threats in the Netherlands for speaking out against Islamic oppression of women. The question was asked, “Where’s the feminist anger at Brandeis over Ayaan Hirsi Ali?”
Brace yourself for the answer: Phyllis Chesler looked at the Brandeis faculty petition against Ali and found that 21% of the signatures came from faculty associated with the university’s Women and Gender Studies (WGS) program. As a matter of fact, it appears that the controversial petition actually originated with WGS faculty members.
The first two names on the petition are both members of the Women and Gender Studies faculty: Karen Hansen and Dian Fox. Assuming that the authors of the petition would also be the first signers, this is significant, as is the fact that four other of the first 10 signers were either core faculty or associate faculty of the Brandeis WGS program: ChaeRan Freeze, Bernadette J. Brooten, Mary Baine Campbell and Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman. The faculty petition claimed that, by honoring Aayan Hirsi Ali, Brandeis would suggest “to the public that violence toward girls and women is particular to Islam . . . thereby obscuring such violence in our midst among non-Muslims, including on our own campus,” and concluded: ”We cannot accept Ms. Hirsi Ali’s triumphalist narrative of western civilization, rooted in a core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western peoples.”