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What has the New York Times got against Ayaan Hirsi Ali?


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2021 Feb 14, 9:09pm   101 views  4 comments

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https://spectator.us/topic/new-york-times-got-against-ayaan-hirsi-ali/

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not an easy person to cancel. She has survived the brutal murder of her colleague Theo van Gogh, lived through more than two decades of serious threats to her life and fled more countries than many people have visited. Perhaps it is for these reasons, rather than in spite of them, that she generates such hatred from what used to be called ‘liberal’ quarters.

Hirsi Ali has a new book out this week. Prey is a forensically detailed, careful and brave analysis of (as the subtitle says) ‘immigration, Islam and the erosion of women’s rights’. It looks at questions that most people turn away from: horrors that result from the mass immigration into Europe of recent decades. Horrors like the one which Britain euphemistically describes as the ‘grooming gangs’ problem.

Prey is a clear-sighted book, filled with what data is able to be gathered from numerous Western countries which have been careful to do anything other than collect data on such questions. Hirsi Ali’s conclusions are far from outrageous. They are moderate, detailed and in line with what sensible public opinion would agree with in almost every country.

Unfortunately sensible public opinion is rarely aired because a small group of left-wing boundary-beaters have spent the last twenty years trying to ensure that none of the news, data or debate around this is ever had out. For the last 20 years all Western European countries have circled around the consequences that mass immigration from Muslim societies can bring. ...

A pattern has emerged in which whenever somebody raises the issue of whether or not there are any consequences that result from importing large numbers of mainly male migrants from culturally — ahem — different cultures, the person raising the question is accused of being ‘far-right’ or bigoted. If they are white they are called ‘racist’. If they are black they are called the same thing and more.

Occasionally there is talk of needing to at some point address these questions in a ‘responsible’ fashion. But the long-awaited day never comes, and in the meantime whenever anybody attempts to address these questions ‘responsibly’ the same routine applies. A small coterie of left-wing and Islamist activist boundary-beaters pop-up to ensure that the discussion is suppressed once more.

In recent days, this formula has again been employed against Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As soon as her book came out, the New York Times published a characteristically inaccurate hit-piece to try to kill it at birth. Speaking engagements — even virtual ones — involving Hirsi Ali came under sustained pressure to cancel.

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1   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2021 Feb 14, 9:12pm  

why are they doing it? who is pulling those strings from up top?
2   Patrick   2021 Feb 14, 9:54pm  

I don't know who exactly, but it sure seems like someone powerful is directing the NY Times to write hit pieces. There was just another hit piece recently on a blogger who goes by the name Scott Alexander. A nice guy, not at all racist, that they decided to call racist and dox (expose his real name).

Here's his story:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive
3   mell   2021 Feb 14, 10:06pm  

She has been facing similar treatment from leftoids in the EU and its lamestream media for years and needs bodyguards and secret locations (like Wilders) at times.
4   Patrick   2021 Feb 14, 10:12pm  

Either Islam is right about women, or Islam is wrong about women.

No matter what, liberal heads asplode when considering the issue. They can't bear to admit they are wrong about anything, ever.

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