The Patriot Post® · Brandeis' Islamic Censorship

L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham: “Brandeis University has just knuckled under to student and faculty protests over its announced speaker, author Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She was disinvited. You’d think a human rights advocate would be cheered by these liberals. You’d think they’d positively swoon at a human rights advocate for women! But, no. She is a conservative. The Muslim students and their ‘allies’ didn’t want to hear anything Ali had to say about honor killings or female gender mutilation. Explaining why 86 faculty members signed a demand the invitation be revoked, professor Bernadette Brooten offered an empty justification: Non-Muslims commit violence, too. … In a statement of rebuttal, Ali said she accepted the commencement invitation months ago due to its history: ‘It was founded in 1948, in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, as a co-educational, nonsectarian university at a time when many American universities still imposed rigid admission quotas on Jewish students.’ But what ‘was initially intended as an honor has now devolved into a moment of shaming. Yet the slur on my reputation is not the worst aspect of this episode. More deplorable is that an institution set up on the basis of religious freedom should today so deeply betray its own founding principles.’ Bingo. Now let’s wait for the famous Brandeis faculty, past and present, to speak out. What say you, Robert Reich? And how about you, Anita Hill? A black woman has been silenced.”