Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Shame of Brandeis University

The story: Brandeis U. decides against honor for Islam critic   "After taking heat from some of its own over a decision to grant an honorary degree to an advocate for Muslim women who has made comments critical of Islam, Brandeis University withdrew the planned honor Tuesday night.

"The university said in a statement that Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali would no longer receive the honor at the May 18 commencement." ...

The fallout:
WILLIAM KRISTOL:  Ayaan Hirsi Ali Speaks   ... “ 'Yesterday Brandeis University decided to withdraw an honorary degree they were to confer upon me next month during their Commencement exercises. I wish to dissociate myself from the university’s statement, which implies that I was in any way consulted about this decision. On the contrary, I was completely shocked when President Frederick Lawrence called me—just a few hours before issuing a public statement—to say that such a decision had been made." ...

Again from William Kristol: A Note to Supporters of Brandeis  ... "Brandeis University has in recent years bestowed an honorary degree on Tony Kushner, who called the creation of Israel as a Jewish state “a mistake” and who attacked Israel for ethnic cleansing and for causing “terrible peril in the world.” Brandeis has also honored Desmond Tutu, who compared Israel to Hitler, attacked the “Jewish lobby” as too “powerful” and “scary,” and complained of the “Jewish monopoly of the Holocaust.' ”

Brandeis University Rescinds Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Honorary Degree Because She Criticized Islam   ... "She and Theo Van Gogh produced a short film critical of Islam’s treatment of women, called Submission. A Muslim murdered Van Gogh on an Amsterdam street in 2004. His killer used a knife to pin a note to Van Gogh’s body, and in that note he threatened Ali."

Legal Insurrection: The silence of Western feminists is still deafening  
"I’ve been thinking about what to say regarding the decision of Brandeis University to withdraw an invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali for an Honorary Degree.
It comes on the heels of attempts to keep The Honor Diaries off campus, The silence of Western feminists is deafening."

John Podhoretz: The Shame of Brandeis 
... "What Lawrence has done here is the nothing less than the act of a gutless, spineless, simpering coward.

"My late uncle, Marver Bernstein, served as the university’s president from 1972 to 1983. I know Marver would have been appalled beyond belief at his shameful successor’s monstrous capitulation to the screaming voices of unreason. As should we all be."



 

Do you know what Dhimmitude is? Everyone should know.

The Washington Times  We need to learn a new word: dhimmitude. I’ve written about dhimmitude periodically, lo, these many years since September 11, but it takes time to sink in. Dhimmitude is the coinage of a brilliant historian, Bat Ye’or, whose pioneering studies of the dhimmi, populations of Jews and Christians vanquished by Islamic jihad, have led her to conclude that a common culture has existed through the centuries among the varied dhimmi populations. From Egypt and Palestine to Iraq and Syria, from Morocco and Algeria to Spain, Sicily and Greece, from Armenia and the Balkans to the Caucasus: Wherever Islam conquered, surrendering dhimmi, known to Muslims as “people of the book [the Bible],” were tolerated, allowed to practice their religion, but at a dehumanizing cost." ...  Full Article

BREAKING: House Votes Down Obama’s Budget 2-413…

 

Weasel Zippers   "So all but two House Democrats hate poor people and are heartless racists, right?
"Via The Hill:

The House on Wednesday handily rejected a GOP budget alternative based on President Obama’s 2015 spending blueprint.
It was defeated 2-413, following a pattern seen in recent years in House votes to overwhelmingly reject Obama’s budget proposals. Today’s vote is just slightly better than the unanimous vote against Obama’s budget in 2012.
The two “yes” votes came from Reps. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Jim Moran (D-Va.), who is retiring.

 Full article

What happens when you give radicals an inch

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WND  "Every day, Americans receive object lessons in the mind-blowing audacity of the criminals who make up the Obama administration. Indeed, radicals and progressives of prominence simply exude audacity and impudence overall, advancing their immoral and illegal agenda as though the rule of law and the Constitution simply did not exist.

"Occasionally, we’re treated to “one for the books,” as it were.

"During a House Judiciary Committee Hearing this week, Attorney General Eric Holder became irate when Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, suggested that being in contempt of Congress was “not a big deal” to the attorney general. Gohmert was reacting to a perceived lack of forthrightness in Holder’s testimony, referring, or course, to Holder being held in contempt of Congress in June 2012 over the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal.

"“You don’t want to go there, buddy,” Holder responded. “You don’t want to go there, OK?”
....
"Unfortunately, We the People bear some of the blame for the elitist evolution of those in our government. Having reached this point, and with the evidence of our government’s institutional corruption so apparent, we still have millions of Americans who believe President Obama to be a garden variety liberal Democrat, and that Jeb Bush or Chris Christie might be viable GOP offerings for the presidential ticket in 2016."

Rep. Gowdy Questions AG Holder About Duty to Faithfully Execute the Law

Every day, Americans receive object lessons in the mind-blowing audacity of the criminals who make up the Obama administration. Indeed, radicals and progressives of prominence simply exude audacity and impudence overall, advancing their immoral and illegal agenda as though the rule of law and the Constitution simply did not exist.
Occasionally, we’re treated to “one for the books,” as it were.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/what-happens-when-you-give-radicals-an-inch/#40p47uuOP7HcPIu3.99

What happens when you give radicals an inch
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What happens when you give radicals an inch
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What’s To Be Done About Lois Lerner?

Jonathan S. Tobin "There is good reason to believe Lerner violated the law by directing a discriminatory campaign by the tax agency against conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. But neither committee chairman Dave Camp nor any other member of the Republican majority in the House is under any illusions about whether Attorney General Eric Holder and his staff will act on their recommendation. Though the Justice Department has been investigating this scandal since it came to light, there is little reason to believe they will act against Lerner or anyone else involved in the mess at the IRS. "

America’s New Anti-Strategy; Our allies and our enemies have seriously recalculated where the U.S. stands.

Victor Davis Hanson  

"It was not difficult to define American geopolitical strategy over the seven decades following World War II — at least until 2009. It was largely bipartisan advocacy, most ambitiously, for nations to have the freedom of adopting constitutional governments that respected human rights, favored free markets, and abided by the rule of law. And at the least, we sought a world in which states could have any odious ideology they wished as long as they kept it within their own borders. There were several general strategic goals as we calculated our specific aims, both utopian and realistic."
....
"Who knows? But most people abroad fear that we have entered a very dangerous period. It is becoming clear that the United States cannot continue on its present course and still be the United States, and without the United States in the lead, the world cannot remain the world as we have known it since 1945. But, unless a return to sanity arrives before then, the next two and a half years are a window of opportunity for lots of bad people to cash in their chips and take their winnings to the bank."

Arguably the smartest guy on Earth argues that far from harming the planet, atmospheric CO2 may have positive effects

Rush Limbaugh  "He said. "...I would encourage my fellow journalists to keep that in mind in light of the highly touted 'consensus' on the role of carbon dioxide in promoting global warming.  Climate science is infinitely more complicated than human physiology. Once all of the data are in, we may find that atmospheric carbon dioxide actually has the effect predicted by physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton."

...."They say, "We can't afford to find out if we're wrong!"  It's how they cover themselves.  Folks, it's a giant hoax, and science cannot possibly be science if there's a consensus.  It's not up to a vote.  They're panicking. They're losing ground. That's Paul Mulshine in the Newark Star-Ledger.  Sorry, Paul, I had to highlight you.  I know it's not gonna help you with your buddies, but it's a good piece. What can I say?  You wrote a good piece." 

Jilted Husband Says Kissing Congressman Is 'The Most Non-Religious Person I Know'

TPM "The husband of the staffer caught kissing Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) says that while the congressman ran as a religious man who cherished family values, he wasn't actually religious.

" 'I know his beliefs. When he ran one of his commercials, he said 'I need your prayers,' and I asked, 'When did you get religious?' He said, 'When I needed votes,'" Heath Peacock, 34, told CNN Tuesday. "He broke out the religious card and he's about the most non-religious person I know."

“ 'He has wrecked my life,” Peacock added. “We’re headed for divorce.”

“ 'It was just a kiss, that was all it was, but it embarrassed me and my family.
"This guy has turned my life upside down," he said.

"The couple has been married for six years and have a 6-year-old son, according to CNN." ...  Lucianne.

 

Drive-Bys Outraged by Married Republican Congressman Caught Kissing Woman, While Clinton Remains Greatest American Hero  Rush Limbaugh

The incredible hypocrisy of 21st Century feminism

By Alicia Colon at the Jewish World Review   "My first published column was in a local paper opposing the Equal Rights Amendment for the same reasons that Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative lawyer, campaigned on. As ambiguously written, the ERA, would eliminate the men-only draft requirement, repeal protective laws like sexual assault and eliminate the tendency for mothers to obtain custody over their children in divorce cases. Ironically, one of the arguments that helped sink the amendment from ratification was the fear that single-sex bathrooms would no longer be permitted. In addition, opponents of the amendment also warned that it would lead to abortion on demand and same-sex marriages. Since these changes are now part of our lives, it is obvious that a constitutional amendment was unnecessary to radically change our lives. " ... Full Article

Remember this guy on Father's Day

Hat tip to Joseda Archuleta on Facebook

Jeb Bush Should Listen to his Mum: Do NOT Run!

Voice of Lillpop   "Over the past 25 years, the American people have exercised extremely poor judgment by electing two members of the Bush clan  to the US presidency.

"Both presidencies have produced calamitous results.

"GW Bush, in particular, did irreparable damage with his adamant refusal to enforce the nation’s borders and immigration laws against invaders from south of our prestigious land.

"So narrow was W’s vision, that, even after the Islamic terrorist attack of 9/11, he blithely refused to take control of the US borders, preferring instead to pursue his wrong-headed, racist view that Hispanics who invade America are generally “good-hearted, hard working” amigos who should be welcomed, rather than deported, notwithstanding the rule of law and well being of US citizens." ....
I must say, however, that I loved the way GW struck fear into the hearts of dictators such as Muammar Gadhaffi (Gadhafi, Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi).
Plus, he loved and honored his troops. TD 

Why Aren’t We No. 1?

Victor Davis Hanson    There is a pastime among liberal pundits — the latest is Nicholas Kristof — to quote a new center left global ranking (with unbiased titles such as “The Social Progress Imperative”) and then to decry that the United States is behind its major industrial competitors in things like “Internet Access” and “Ecosystem sustainability.” The subtext of these rants is that an illiberal, reactionary U.S. does not spend enough on government entitlements to promote parity, equality and social justice among its citizenry. These pessimistic rankings increase the angst about the American condition when viewed from scowling perches in Washington or New York.