Aayan Hirsi Ali at Harvard
Posted on May 9, 2006
Check out the video at Hot Air!
One of Michelle Malkin’s readers share their experience of hearing Aayan Hirsi Ali speak at Harvard.
My favorite part:
One telling moment came when an early questioner asked about the overall issue of assimilation versus cultural isolation in Europe. Hirsi Ali answered that she did not think in terms of assimilation and isolation but rather in terms of individualism and collectivism. The collectivist says
that those people in this neighborhood all believe that a woman who is bad should be beaten by her husband. And those people are a valid collective. Hirsi Ali contends that the collective ethos of any group is fine, but it ends when individual rights are violated. And she said in as many words that she is firmly in the camp of the indivualists.
Hat tip: Allah
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