Brandeis Feminists Fail the Historical Moment by Phyllis Chesler April 16, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1282/brandeis-feminists-fail-the-historical-moment Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. The Brandeis professors who demanded that Ayaan Hirsi Ali be "immediately" dis-invited wrote that "we are filled with shame at the suggestion that (Hirsi Ali's) above-quoted sentiments express Brandeis's values." The professors also castigated Hirsi Ali for her "core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western peoples" and for her suggestion that "violence toward girls and women is particular to Islam." The professors note that such a view "obscure(s) such violence in our midst among non-Muslims, including on our own campus." This is exactly what these professors are teaching the more than four thousand Brandeis students who signed a petition to rescind Ayaan Hirsi Ali's award. (Read it here.) Are eight year-old girls being genitally mutilated at Brandeis or forced into polygamous marriages with men old enough to be their grandfathers? Are they being forcibly face-veiled or honor murdered for refusing to marry their first cousins? Perhaps they are being executed because they have been raped, for leaving an abusive marriage, or for daring to express an independent opinion? » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Academic Freedom, Culture Wars & Censorship, Feminism, Islam, Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid

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