Students regularly ask me for a summer reading list of my favorite books to help them continue their nascent reading habits. I’m always hard-pressed to come up with a list because, as I will explain, my favorite books are those that I have recently finished, am reading, or am about to start. However, I do manage to give them a few suggestions, trying to avoid anyone they might know and trying to provide a diverse list of genres—history, memoir, and poetry, for instance. The idea of reading poetry always raises a few eyebrows.
I know they won’t read all of the books, or even most of them, but summer is the quintessential time for reading. Notice how many publications publish lists of books to read, with brief synopses of each one, from The Wall Street Journal to the local newspaper.
I’ve always wanted to weigh in with my own list, avoiding the beach-read, chick-lit recommendation. I only have one reason for this avoidance: I don’t know anything about them, not that I think they are unworthy. What follows in my list, rather, is an eclectic collection of books from numerous genres — from economics to biography to fiction to memoir to poetry. In short, there is something for everyone—or so I intend. I’ve also tried to avoid writers whose books I felt were already familiar enough and didn’t need any more advertising. Some of these writers include: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ben Franklin, and Neil Gorsuch. What I can tell you is that I have read several (if not all) of the books of each person I have included in the list below.
I also had another decision to make: to recommend a particular book or simply the writer. Unless I had a compelling reason to mention a specific book, I decided to let the writers stand on their own. All are so good that no one can go wrong choosing anything in their canon.
Finally, I made the decision to include writers who speak to our failing Republic or to current, contentious issues, but such writers are not in the majority. In other words, this isn’t a collection of books on current events, despite there being writers included who speak in large and important ways to the political, moral, and philosophical issues of our day. It is, as I said, an eclectic list of writers, in no particular order, who have challenged, entertained, or taken my breath away, over and over, through the years.
<h4>Introducing the Writers</h4>
<ol>
<li>Bradley Thompson, historian of our country’s founding. He writes with love and passion, especially in his most recent book, “America’s Revolutionary Mind.”</li>
<li>Thomas Sowell, economist and long-time member of the Hoover Institute. Sowell is known for his data-driven research, and “Intellectuals and Society” is no exception. Of note here is his work on gun control, which is the reason why I mention this specific title among his forty-some books.</li>
<li>Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch-American political activist, commentator, and colleague of Sowell at the Hoover Institute. She is originally from Somalia. Her first two books, memoirs, inspire young and old readers alike.</li>
<li>Victor Davis Hanson, another member of the Hoover Institute, who writes military and classical history and contemporary political commentary like no other.</li>
<li>Markus Zusak, a children’s book writer, best-known for “The Book Thief,” set during World War II.</li>
<li>Chaim Potok, late American Jewish novelist, Zionist, and painter.</li>
<li>Andrew Roberts, British historian, whose recent one-volume biography of Winston Churchill is the best in or out of print.</li>
<li>Dorothy L. Sayers, British mystery writer and inventor of the iconic sleuth Lord Peter Whimsey. Several contemporary mystery writers, such as P. D. James and Elizabeth George, owe her a debt of gratitude for elevating mystery to literary fiction.</li>
<li>A.S. Byatt, British winner of the Booker prize for “Possession.” She is also an accomplished short-story writer; her sister is the novelist Margaret Drabble.</li>
<li>Charles Williams, a member of the Oxford literary group known as the Inklings during World War II, an editor with the Oxford University Press, and a writer of spiritual thrillers.</li>
<li>Flannery O’Connor, Catholic, Southern gothic short-story writer.</li>
<li>Reynolds Price, fellow Southern novelist, poet, essayist, and previous member of the Duke University English department.</li>
<li>Andre Dubus, the late American short-story writer.</li>
<li>Wendell Berry, Kentucky farmer, who writes about contemporary agricultural issues and is also a novelist, essayist, and poet. His Sabbath Poems deserve to be read aloud to another person, as I did on a hiking trip to the Chianti Valley, Tuscany before my husband’s death. </li>
<li>Billy Collins, American poet; I think of him as bread and butter.</li>
<li>Wislawa Szymborska, was a Polish Nobel Laureate poet. Even in translation, her grammatical and intellectual power comes striking through.</li>
<li>Annie Proulx, American novelist and short-story writer. I am particularly fond of the hard-scrabble collection, “Wyoming Stories.”</li>
<li>Alexandre Dumas, nineteenth-century novelist. When students ask me for my favorite book, I have an answer: “The Count of Monte Cristo.”</li>
<li>Naomi Wolfe, journalist and political commentator, who has become something of an expert in Covid matters.</li>
<li>Antonin Scalia, the late conservative Supreme Court Justice, whose legal opinions, besides being brilliant, are hilarious. If only we had more like him.</li>
</ol>
Choose one, two, or more and dive in this summer. Choose a genre you have never read and read it aloud to a friend or loved one. Share these writers. Reading can never be just a solitary occupation, an isolated pleasure. What you read changes you and will spill out of you, willy-nilly. There is no other activity like it. Just ask Dr. Ben Carson who credits reading as the root of his success. Let it be yours.
Cheryl Forbes is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She is the author of eight books on theology, philosophy, science, and memoir.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Forbes – Summertime And The Reading Is Easy

Summertime And The Reading Is Easy: 20 Writers Worth Diving Into

Antonin Scalia

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Readers Pass

Victor Davis Hanson

Robin DiAngelo, the author of the bestseller “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism,” reportedly has not responded to a request that she debate famed human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a native of Somalia, on the subject of so-called “systemic racism.” If DiAngelo agreed to the debate, at least $22,000 would be sent to some of Kenya&#8217;s most underprivileged children.
Helen Pluckrose — who along with James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian initiated a celebrated project in which they submitted fake academic papers to peer-reviewed journals in cultural, gender, queer, and race studies to see if they would get published — noted on Twitter on Wednesday:
<blockquote>Hey everyone. DiAngelo has made no response to this request even though by doing it, she would enable $22,000 to provide education for some of Kenya&#8217;s most underprivileged children. Can we increase the pledge &amp; appeal to her commitment to social justice?</blockquote>
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Hey everyone. DiAngelo has made no response to this request even though by doing it, she would enable $22,000 to provide education for some of Kenya&#39;s most underprivileged children. Can we increase the pledge &amp; appeal to her commitment to social justice? <a href="https://t.co/T0gaXr5Io6">https://t.co/T0gaXr5Io6</a>
&mdash; Helen Pluckrose (@HPluckrose) <a href="https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1400389686342868996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The GoFundMe project offering the debate <a href="https://carrotcrowdfunding.com/cc/robin-diangelo-ayaan-hirsi-ali-in-conversation">states</a>:
<blockquote>Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Professor DiAngelo are invited to a public conversation on the topic of systemic racism. If the conversation happens proceeds go to Starhe: a charity providing Kenya’s brightest underprivileged children with a quality education. …</blockquote>
The GoFundMe page notes of Hirsi Ali that she is &#8220;a best-selling author and human rights activist. As a proponent of individualism, she has expressed concerns about identity politics and its capacity to erode our sense of common humanity.&#8221;
&#8220;The conversation must take place on a public medium, and will be available to you whether or not you back this campaign,&#8221; the page reads. &#8220;We suggest a video conversation (live-streamed and recorded) but we’re happy to consider alternatives suggested by the conversationalists.&#8221;
The GoFundMe page notes the campaign deadline is June 18, 2021, adding that if the conversation occurs before the deadline, proceeds are given to charity. If the debate does not occur before the deadline, people who donated will not be charged, but can choose to donate to charity.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-anti-racism-author-robin-diangelo-paid-more-than-black-woman-to-speak-at-same-diversity-forum">The Daily Wire</a> noted in late November 2020:
<blockquote>Robin DiAngelo, author of the bestselling book, “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” has seen her star rise as more people on the Left seek to learn more about how white people are inherently racist. Her website <a href="https://robindiangelo.com/">describes</a> “white fragility” as “a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive responses. These responses function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and maintain white control.”
The book has allowed DiAngelo to rake in speaking fees, where she charges up to $30,000 for a 60- to 90-minute speech. Her book also earned more than $2 million in sales.</blockquote>
In March, Hirsi Ali joined other intellectuals — including Megyn Kelly, Bari Weiss, Steven Pinker, Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Peter Boghossian, and Coleman Hughes — to found the <a href="https://www.fairforall.org/">Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism</a>, a non-partisan organization dedicated to “advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.” The organization’s website says it opposes critical race theory because “it pits us against one another and diminishes what it means to be human.”

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Report: ‘White Fragility’ Author DiAngelo Won’t Respond To Offer To Debate Famed African Human Rights Activist

On May 12 at Dartmouth College, a young white male student confronted Linda Sarsour, the leader of the Women&#8217;s March and a <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/263651398250545152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fwhy-palestinian-american-activist-linda-sarsour-is-controversial%2F">rabid Israel-hater</a>, about her malevolent 2011 tweet in which she referenced female genital mutilation survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel, an Arab Christian who strongly supports Israel, both of whom have openly criticized Islam.
Sarsour&#8217;s 2011 tweet looked like this:
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The young man confronted Sarsour:
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Hi. So, um, this question is really important because I believe that women&#8217;s rights are also human rights. So I really want to know: under what circumstances it&#8217;s acceptable to say that &#8220;I wish I could take their vaginas away. They don&#8217;t deserve to be women.&#8221; Just to give that context, that&#8217;s one of the tweets off your Twitter.
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There was a long pause while Sarsour decided how to mitigate the effect of the truth being thrown at her. She finally responded by evading the question:
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So, let&#8217;s give some context here, because, y&#8217;know, we have &#8212; Uh, this is an event organized by an Asian American, right? Let&#8217;s just get &#8212; let&#8217;s get some context to what is going on here. Celebrating a community, right? Talking about communities of color who are being directly impacted by this moment and I have a young white man in the back who is not directly impacted by any of the issues I mentioned.
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That elicited applause from the supine audience, which apparently didn&#8217;t care about the massive hypocrisy of a woman posing as a fighter for women&#8217;s rights who had called for literally ripping away the vaginas of women that she hated.
Sarsour continued by astonishingly claiming she never issued the tweet: &#8220;A copy and paste that he got from a right-wing blog. He doesn&#8217;t even know if it actually came from my Twitter account because he has a screenshot of it. He never actually went to my Twitter to see if it&#8217;s actually there. Right? That never happened. &#8221;
The audacity of Sarsour claiming she never sent the tweet and acting like tweets couldn&#8217;t be deleted is beyond comment.
She went on, &#8220;But let me just say this to you: You&#8217;re college students, I was in my twenties, when was that, 2011?&#8221;
Sarsour initially referenced the actual date of the tweet, which the young man hadn&#8217;t mentioned. But then she quickly backtracked, suddenly getting fuzzy about when the tweet was issued, while giving herself an out in case people still believed she sent the tweet:
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People say stupid shit sometimes, right? I will be judged by my impeccable track record for black lives and immigrants rights and women&#8217;s rights and LGBT rights, you judge me by that record and not by some tweet that you think I did or did not tweet ten years ago or seven years ago or whenever it was. So that&#8217;s my answer to your question. Next.
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Just for the record, Hirsi Ali was <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/ayaan-hirsi-ali-fgm-was-done-to-me-at-the-age-of-five-ten-years-later-even-20-i-would-not-have-8534299.html">genitally mutilated</a> as a five-year-old child in Somalia. Gabriel and her parents lived underground <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/An-inside-ally">for seven years</a> in an 8-by-10 foot bomb shelter during the Lebanese Civil War. Gabriel has stated that she had to crawl in a roadside ditch to a spring for water in order to evade Muslim snipers. She said later that in 1978 a stranger warned her family that the Islamic militias were intending to attack all Christians, but her life was saved when the Israeli army invaded Lebanon. Her mother was seriously injured and taken to an Israeli hospital, where Gabriel saw the Israelis &#8220;providing medical treatment to Palestinian and Muslim gunmen. &#8230;These Palestinians and Muslims were sworn, mortal enemies, dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of Jews. Yet, Israeli doctors and nurses worked feverishly to save their lives. Each patient was treated solely according to the nature of his or her injury.&#8221;
Video of Sarsour below:
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Student asks <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">@lsarsour</a> about wanting to &#8220;Take away <a href="https://twitter.com/Ayaan">@Ayaan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte">@</a><a href="https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte">ACTBrigitte</a>&#8216;s vagina.&#8221;
Linda Sarsour responds: You&#8217;re a &#8220;white man.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ij1BT4bvVq">pic.twitter.com/ij1BT4bvVq</a>
&#8212; Lalo Dagach (@LaloDagach) <a href="https://twitter.com/LaloDagach/status/866847033042325505">May 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Sarsour Berates White Student For Quoting Her Tweet Saying Women Who Disagree Shouldn’t Have Vaginas

Linda Sarsour

Racism

Islamic terrorism cannot be understood without an examination of Islam, said Ayaan Hirsi Ali in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjxhLlBX5j0">Tuesday-published interview</a> with Dave Rubin for his eponymous show.
Contrary to narratives pushed by Democrats and their left-wing ideological allies of Islamic terrorism as somehow divorced from Islam, Ali maintains that Islamic terrorism is rooted in the legacy of Muhammed and the Quran.
Understanding the draw of Muslims to Islamic terrorism requires an understanding of Muhammed and the Quran, said Ali:
<blockquote>With Islam, I find that very often we talk about symptoms, we talk about the environment, we talk about disenfranchised young men, we talk about countries that feel that because they have autocratic dictatorships that maybe the populations are acting out, but we hardly ever talk about the core of the issue, and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, if we want to defeat what it is that makes ISIS — Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — so attractive, and al-Qaeda and all these other groups so attractive, we will no be able to do that without learning something about the life and legacy of Muhammed, the founder of Islam, [and the Quran].</blockquote>
Ali&#8217;s statements are at odds with false narratives pushed by Democrats and the broader left regarding Islamic terrorism. As president, Barack Obama <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/politics/obama-isil-not-islamic/">said</a> &#8220;ISIS is not Islamic,&#8221; <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/7755/obama-trump-doing-isils-work-robert-kraychik">later accusing</a> then-presidential candidate Donald Trump of &#8220;doing ISIL&#8217;s work.&#8221;
Obama also <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/10/04/blameshifting-obama-tells-dicaprio-climate-change-contributed-to-the-syrian-civil-war/">described</a> ongoing war in the failed Muslim-majority state of Syria as driven by &#8220;climate change,&#8221; neglecting to identify its connections to Islam and Muslims. Various leftists have parroted this narrative, including <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/politics/hillary-clinton-climate-change-syria-refugee-crises/">Hillary Clinton</a>, <a href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a40133/bill-nye-climate-change-paris-attacks/">Bill Nye</a>, <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/11/23/prince-charles-climate-change-root-cause-syria-crisis">Prince Charles</a>, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/1474/video-maher-agrees-sanders-climate-change-robert-kraychik">Bill Maher and Bernie Sanders</a>. TIME also <a href="http://time.com/4113801/climate-change-terrorism/">connected</a> mass murder Islamic terrorist attacks in France to &#8220;climate change.&#8221;
Democrats and the broader left regularly deny any overlap between Islamic terrorism, Islam, and Muslims. Left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR regularly ignore or deny Islamic terrorism&#8217;s connections to Islamic theology and doctrines.
&#8220;Islamization,&#8221; said Ali, is the process of pushing societies toward fusion of politics with Islamic doctrine. Islamist states such as Saudi Arabia fund such operations. Islamist heads of state such as Turkish President Recep Erdogan, she noted, encourage Muslims to move to the West, raise large families, and reject assimilation.
Now living in America, Ali expressed her love of the homeland&#8217;s freedom, describing it as paradisiacal in its ethos of liberty to pursue happiness.
The West is failing in its defense of its own identity of freedom, said Ali, warning Westerners against taking freedom for granted:
<blockquote>We in the West, we have failed to sell [the values of freedom]. I think part of it is because the people, present-day Westerners, didn&#8217;t do the fighting. They were not the young, hungry, scrappy men that made this country. They were the ones who inherited it after several generations.</blockquote>
Western decadence has disconnected the current generations from the struggles overcome to secure their inheritance, said Ali: &#8220;[Lots of Westerners] don&#8217;t know what is not to be free.&#8221;
Rubin&#8217;s interview with Ali was filmed in an undisclosed location for security reasons.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Quran/Muhammed Central To Islamic Terrorism

Barack Obama

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Hillary Clinton

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Media

Anti-Semitism&#8217;s prevalence in the West is positively correlated with the size of its Muslim demographic, said Ayaan Hirsi Ali in a Monday-published interview with Dave Rubin, speaking specifically of anti-Semitism in Europe:
<blockquote>&#8220;We thought that after 1945, the end of the Second World War, that there was this enormous insight in the West; no more anti-Semitism. Never again &#8230; But in Europe anti-Semitism is back, and it&#8217;s back because of Islam.&#8221;</blockquote>
Left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media outlets regularly ignore or deny anti-Semitism as a social pathology prevalent among Muslims, opting instead to present false narratives of “the world’s oldest hatred” as primarily acute among white Christian conservatives and Republicans.
Ali exposited on contemporary manifestations of the West’s interactions with Islam and Muslims, particularly focusing on mass migration of Muslims to the West in recent decades. She offered a broad division of Islam&#8217;s adherents into two categories: Mecca Muslims and Medina Muslims; the former more interested in personal and mostly apolitical elements of the faith (i.e. praying and fasting), the latter more motivated by Islamic tenets promoting Islam&#8217;s fusion with politics (i.e. dawa, Muhammed&#8217;s military conquests of the Arabian peninsula) and prescribing its domination of the world.
Rubin proffered that leftists “hold Islam hostage” through their reflexive degradation and intimidation of Islamic reformers, effectively preventing reformation efforts to promote less overtly political brands of Islam. “It’s the liberals, unfortunately, the Left, that is holding the more extreme elements of Islam in power,&#8221; he said.
Islamic reformers, said Ali, are “marginalized, sidelined, and threatened” by wide swathes of Muslims and leftists.
Ali spoke of a political alignment between the Left and Islamists built on shared antipathy toward the foundations and values of Western civilization:
<blockquote>The Left find themselves, I just want to say inadvertently, I can’t believe that they really mean it, they’re doing this consciously and willingly — but they find themselves inadvertently aligned with the Islamists.
I’ve heard some people say that’s because the Left hates America, the Left hates capitalism, the Left can’t deal with political freedom, and to find another group with a similar outlook — even though they want a different outcome — it’s easy, it’s very natural for the far-Left to align itself not only with Islamism but also with other radical anti-Western movements.</blockquote>
The neo-Marxist concept of “intersectionality,” said Ali, amounted to false grievance-mongering for groups of persons arbitrarily defined by superficial biological attributes.
“I happen to be black, and I happen to be a woman, and I happen to be a minority in the United States. I even happen to be an apostate. So talk about intersectionality, but none of that defines me as who I am. I’m more than all of that. I certainly don’t see myself as a victim.”
Leftist paradigms of “identity politics,” added Ali, keep ideological fellow travelers in a “constant state of anger and resentment,” compelling them to “lash out at others” and “demanding that society” offer them benefits at the expense of others.
Ali was interviewed in a non-disclosed location due to security concerns.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘Anti-Semitism Is Back … Because Of Islam’

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Muslim Ban

Muslim Immigration

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On Wednesday, Islam critic and human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali called out &#8220;<a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/01/ayaan-hirsi-ali-slams-womens-march-organizer-linda-sarsour-sharia-law">fake feminist&#8221; and &#8220;defender of Sharia</a>&#8221; Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and organizer of the January 21 Women&#8217;s March on Washington.
Ali, who was tragically a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM), was viciously threatened with violence and told she didn&#8217;t &#8220;deserve to be a woman&#8221; by Sarsour in a vile resurfaced tweet:
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Sarsour, a defender of Sharia Law, was not only a co-chair of the &#8220;feminist&#8221; march; the Women&#8217;s March officially backed her after being confronted with the tweet. 
Ali finally had an opportunity to respond while speaking with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Wednesday night, where she slammed Sarsour&#8217;s &#8220;fake&#8221; feminism and asked why these women at the march haven&#8217;t activated to march against &#8220;mass rape,&#8221; attacks on religious minority Yazidi women, mass gendercide in China or for the victims of FGM, which she rightfully categorized as being part of the &#8220;real war on women.&#8221;
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&#8220;Ms. Sarsour is hostile to me and not because she knows me, but because she&#8217;s a fake feminist,&#8221; Ali <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/02/ayaan-hirsi-ali-calls-womens-march-organizer-a-fake-feminist-video/">told </a>MacCallum. &#8220;Ms. Sarsour is not interested in universal human rights. She&#8217;s a defender of sharia law&#8230;No principle degrades and dehumanizes women more than Sharia law.&#8221;
&#8220;We have threats, real threats, against women &#8212; a real war on women. Our genitals are being cut. 140 million woman have been subjected to genital mutilation &#8212; child brides,&#8221; she continued.
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&#8220;Ms. Sarsour is not interested in universal human rights. She&#8217;s a defender of sharia law.&#8221;
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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&#8220;We are not marching against this kind of thing. We&#8217;re not marching against mass rape in Europe. This is the kind of thing we need to be marching against, and we&#8217;re not marching against that. If we&#8217;re really interested in civil rights, human rights and the rights of women we should not go with fake feminists,&#8221; concluded the brave human rights leader. 
Amazingly, the mainstream media have avoided Sarsour&#8217;s radical ties and inflammatory language.

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‘Fake Feminist’: Islam Critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali SLAMS Women’s March Organizer

Following last week’s Islamic terrorist attacking in Paris and the ongoing flood of Muslim refugees and migrants into Europe, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is calling on Europe to change its immigration policies and reinforce its border security.
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Ali warned that if political leaders in Europe follow Merkel’s example of “making a virtue of the openness of their borders,&#8221; then right-wing populist movements will continue to grow. Given the threat of Islamic extremism, Ali says that Europe must revisit its treaties, laws, and policies in order to tighten its controls of the flow of people into and throughout the continent. She called for cultural and ideological screening of those wishing to make Europe their home.
Ali also called for a determined “war of ideas” against Islamists. European leaders, Ali said, must pursue the “infrastructure of indoctrination”: mosques, Muslim schools, and Islamic websites. Pretending that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam and Muslims, however, will prevent this from being possible. Given the multicultural ethos of Europe, this recommendation of Ali’s is all the more difficult to actualize. Multiculturalism discourages cultural integration of immigrants, contributing to ghettoization and Balkanization. It is also fused with cultural relativism, further obstructing the acculturation of immigrants by discouraging the promotion of Western values. If no culture is superior to any other, why should Europe preserve its own in light of cultural change brought in by the mass immigration of Muslims? Ali’s proposal to proselytize the values of Western Civilization is only possible in an environment which believes in the superiority of Western values over alternatives.
Ali heralded Israel’s counterterrorism systems as a model to be emulated by European security services. From Israel’s founding, it has dealt with the threat of Islamic terrorism. Nowadays, Ali says, such a mass casualty attack in Israel as was seen in Paris is unthinkable. Islamic terrorists in Israel, she continued, are now relegated to using knives and vehicles. “We should stop demonizing Israel. We should start learning from Israel,” said Ali.
<blockquote>“We should start by naming it.&#8221;
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Radical Islam</blockquote>
Joining Megyn Kelly last night, Ali exposited on her article. She said that President Barack Obama’s rhetorical strategy of denying the overlap between Islamic terrorism, Islam, and Muslims is a “failure.&#8221; After acknowledging that a nuanced grasp of Islam and Muslims is necessary in order not to indict the entire religious group for acts of Islamic terrorists, Ali stated that radical Islam must still be seen as a subset of Islam. The attempt to excise Jihadism and completely separate it from Islam and Muslims makes it impossible to effectively combat it. “We should start by naming it,” said Ali. Ali rebuked the view that carefully crafted rhetoric denying the religious underpinnings of Islamic terrorism will pacify its perpetrators.
Ali warned that this is a long-term struggle, saying, “Islamic extremism is older than this election cycle, and the last one, and 9/11. It’s going to outlast this election cycle.”
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: No More Unvetted Muslim Immigrants

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