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  • A great cause, but don't blame the Dutch

    Mr. Hitchens is a great intellectual and his words have a global appeal. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is doing great work in striving for humanism, feminism, and against brutality. Now who can be against that? Not me. And, sorry for my high school English by the way. But working for a great cause doesn't mean you don't have to have to facts right. Mrs. Ayaan ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by OnClogs on May 8, 2008

  • Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking

    It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008

  • Re: moderation is extremism

    princesswonderful: we have to acknowledge that there is absolutely no earthly authority who can ideologically police actions which bear the marks of religious interpretation or carry a claim (however irrational by empirical standards) of divine mandate. moderate religious practice (of all faiths) only further entrenches the dangerously ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on December 19, 2007

  • My check is in the mail

    Thanks, Mr. Hitchens! My check, made out to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Securitry Trust, is going out in the mail today. Let's do all we can to support this noble woman. I think it speaks volumes that she has chosen to live in the United States.
    Posted to Fighting Words by Brenan Nierman on November 1, 2007

  • Why I don't side with Hitch even when I agree with him

    Hitchens has always been a complete ass about things that people have a genuine disagreement on (Iraq War, anyone?), leaving one the impression that if you don't see it his way you're a lunatic. So it's no surprise when he writes on a topic like protection from terrorists -- a subject I agree with in theory -- I still find myself playing ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Science on October 12, 2007

  • The Dutch gov has been paying for her protection

    Hirsi and Hitchens? Ecce quam bonum, et quam iucundum habitare fratres in unum, i.e. ''behold, how good and joyful a thing it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity.'' Ah, let us recall a few things, please: Ali did not legitimately receive Dutch citizenship, i.e. she gave false information about her real name, her age and the country ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Dan Hadan on October 12, 2007

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Western Civilization

    Whenever I read Christopher Hitchens, I learn a few lessons. In this case, Hitch upheld The Netherlands/Dutch as historically heroic for, among other things, offering refuge to Spinoza's family. Who knew? Unfortunately, when reading Hitchens, I always come across masterfully artful examples of his selective Polemics - (argumentative techniques.) ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on October 9, 2007