Ayaan Hirsi Ali To Joe Biden: Because I Respect The Office Of The Vice-President, I Will Politely And Graciously Refrain From Schooling You.
[guest post by Dana]
A funny thing happened when Ayaan Hirsi Ali met Vice-President Joe Biden: he wanted to straighten out her views of Islam.
In a recent interview, Ayaan Hirsi Ali discussed with sharp insight, the left’s willful and subsequently dangerous blindness toward radical Islam and the very real war on women:
They feel all religions are the same, and they’re not. I think if I adopt the position in good faith to multiculturalists and leftists, I would say [they take the position they do] because they see them [Muslims] as victims. They see them as victims of the white man and so they think: ‘Let’s protect them from the white man. Let’s protect them from capitalism.’… That is misguided at best and malicious at worst.
Wherever [Islamists] gain power, you see exactly what they do: The first thing they do is they chase women out of the public space, force them to cover up, beat them up, rape them, sell them into slavery.
Such violence against women needs to be exposed, and Western liberals need to “review their thinking.
Noted Islamic scholar Joe Biden begged to differ:
Hirsi Ali recalled meeting Vice President Joe Biden. He informed her that “ISIS had nothing to do with Islam.” When she disagreed with him, Biden actually responded: “Let me tell you one or two things about Islam.”
“I politely left the conversation at that,” Hirsi Ali said, to laughter. “I wasn’t used to arguing with vice presidents.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: steadily provoking liberals and feminists everywhere because girl doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
–Dana