AYAAN HIRSI ALI

A good article on Ms. Ali by Anne Appelbaum in todays WP. Ms. Ali is apparently quite divisive, particularly for European's leftist elites.

Hirsi Ali's rejection of religion in favor of reason, intellect and emancipation seems to make everyone nervous. Typical is the British feminist who complained that not only does Hirsi Ali paint "the whole of the Islamic world with one black brush," she also "paints the whole of the Western world with rosy tints," which is, of course, far more objectionable.

Read the whole article.