GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Hirsi Ali faces student critics....

I guess it's expected...lots of students don't like her message....
Ali’s comments riled up a few Muslim audience members, who accused her of painting an overwhelmingly negative picture of Islam.

“She is exploiting American ignorance on the topic,” said 18-year-old Kameron Khan, a Bucknell freshman born in Pakistan and raised in the United States. “She has some points, but she doesn’t have enough knowledge of Muslim culture. ... I didn’t hear her say anything positive about Muslims.”

Other audience members expressed concerns similar to Khan’s. One man, also a native of Pakistan, said she was fueling a “post-9/11, anti-Islamic phobia” that permeates the minds of many Americans.

One woman thought Ali was “kind of giving a more hopeless future” for Muslim progress in Western society.

Another student called her “the bin Laden of the opposing view (of Islam).”

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