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April 30, 2006
Ayaan Hirsi Ali evicted
Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be speaking today as part of the PEN Festival in NYC. Her new book will be out on Tuesday.
Back home in the Hague, she is being evicted by her neighbors because the fact that Islamists have targeted her for assassination, and therefore requires 24-hr. guard, makes them nervous.
Peaktalk:
Hirsi Ali’s neighbors self-interest runs so deep that they are prepared to use the court system to throw someone whose life is in danger out of her own house. It goes like this: we’re tolerant, we support free speech and a critical attitude, but if it comes too close to our front porch, sorry, we are no longer interested.
More from Done with Mirrors:
Not long ago, I made the mistake of bringing up the concept of moral courage in a comments section elsewhere. Almost immediately, that idea was dismissed, even pooh-poohed, and I assume it was because the word “moral” is immediately associated with religion and petty "moralism." But moral courage isn’t about that (although, at its best, religion can, and I think should, promote it). Moral courage is an ethical construct, a way of approaching the world and our core responsibilities in it that transcend any particular religion or time or place. It defines us as thinking human beings who can face not just our physical fears (which are predicated on failure) but our ethical ones (which are predicated on success).
Sounds like the fault line I described in my posts on United 93.
Judith | 04/30/06 at 02:08 AM | Categories: WWIV
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Moral courage involves following the courage of one's convictions. To caste Ms. Ali out of their midst when she is in danger from Islamofascists is reprehensible !
Paul | April 30, 2006 07:51 AM
Ali's neighbors have come up with a novel idea for fighting crime - kick the potential victims out of their homes.
I can't believe this quote:
We are relieved. We just didn’t feel safe any longer in our own homes. Of course, we consider it to be terrible for Hirsi Ali to have to leave her house. The case was not directed at her personally. The point was that the State should not open us to so much danger”
The state isn't opening them up to danger, the Islamists are.
mary | April 30, 2006 10:51 AM
I guess we know why so very few Dutch Jews survived the Holocaust compared with, say, France or Denmark.
Shameful!
Lynne | May 1, 2006 10:28 AM
