Is Hirsi Ali the Only Lionheart In America?
Glenn Beck interviewed Ayaan Hirsi Ali (transcripts are here). In contrast to the slobbering incoherence of her host—my father has recently ventured that ours is The Age of the Idiot—Hirsi Ali was a model of lucidity. It helps that she looks like a model too. However, when asked by the hyperbolic host whether anyone in the USA was warning of the dangers of "radical Islam"—a redundancy Beck adheres to religiously—Hirsi Ali took full credit for being The Only One:
BECK: Have you met with anyone here in the United States that you thinks [sic]— that you think really gets it and is willing to stand up next to you? Is there — is there anybody here? Is there a woman's organization? Is there a Muslim organization that says, we're with you?
ALI: I've met several individuals, several organizations and all very concerned. To be honest, I think vigilance in the United States seems to me to be today better than the one in Europe. What I haven't seen in the United States is people who are aware of the problem here today in the U.S.
She clearly failed to acknowledge scholars-cum-warriors such as Robert Spencer and Andrew Bostom. (Spencer has even been addressed by an al Qaida emissary in a propaganda broadcast.) Nor was there any mention of Bat Ye'or, who was the first to expose the Islamization of Europe, and whose terminology we all use. Hirsi Ali cannot claim ignorance of another European woman on whose shoulders she stands.
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