Sunday, May 21, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Phyllis Chesler: Priorities Out of Order - Where are the feminists? - '...Hirsi Ali has increasingly referred to the Dutch betrayal of its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust—but she enters America at a moment when American Israel Public Affairs Committee officials are on trial and the Pentagon has begun to strip security clearances from government employees who hold dual Israeli and American citizenship or whose relatives live in Israel. Like Fallaci, Hirsi Ali has argued that, if Europe does not stand up to Islamists, European civilization is doomed. She says: “Radical Islam is not just against me. It’s against [my Dutch neighbors] too. By having me evicted, the terrorists have won. It makes the situation more dangerous for everyone.” She is right. God help America if we are not able to protect her and all other such truth-tellers.'
