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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (328628)	6/6/2011 1:35:19 AM
From: average joe	10 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

"I wonder how Ayn Rand would have made out if she were born in Chad." Message 27417918 I'm taking the liberty of answering your question on this thread Mary. Ayn was born in the Soviet Union, learned a foreign language and became a best selling author in her new language. I don't think any other author from the time of Plato until now can claim that. This one fact alone proves her brilliance. The fact the intellectual elite of SI hate her and hate her and ignore modern contemporaries of Rand such as Hirsi Ali further bolsters what shrinking violets today's left is. Don't worry Mary and feel you're alone. This place is full of quitters just like you. The Left's Strange Hostility To Hirsi Ali From Mark Steyn, the Canadian conservative pundit, about the Somali-born libertarian feminist: "Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s great cause is women’s liberation. Unfortunately for her, the women she wants to liberate are Muslim, so she gets minimal support and indeed a ton of hostility from Western feminists who have reconciled themselves, consciously or otherwise, to the two-tier sisterhood: when it comes to clitoridectomies, forced marriages, honour killings, etc., multiculturalism trumps feminism. Liberal men are, if anything, even more opposed. She long ago got used to the hectoring TV interviewer, from Avi Lewis on the CBC a while back to Tavis Smiley on PBS just the other day, insisting that say what you like about Islam but everyone knows that Christians are just as backward and violent, if not more so. The media left spends endless hours and most of its interminable awards ceremonies congratulating itself on its courage, on 'speaking truth to power,' the bravery of dissent and all the rest, but faced with a pro-gay secular black feminist who actually lives it they frost up in nothing flat. The latest is Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times." Ayaan Hirsi Ali Upends Leftist Stereotypes In Santa Monica Big Government blog checks out a Hirsi Ali book signing out in California, and how quiet a room of mostly liberal 150-200 people got when the libertarian feminist discussed her latest book Nomad: "Well, she was black, so they could not dismiss her as a racist; she had lived in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands and the United States, so they could not call her an ignorant provincial hick; she was an avowed atheist, so they could not call her a Christian bigot on a crusade against peaceful Islam; and she was multi-lingual, articulate, and brilliant, so they couldn’t just call her stupid. All the pejoratives they usually apply to people who disagree with them wouldn’t work, and so they were left to confront her ideas, and those ideas stripped them naked, rent their garments of superiority and condescension into tatters at their feet, and left them angry and confused, whining to each other in the corners of the room, unable to say anything to her face. Their favorite weapons, ad hominem name-calling and sneering condescension, were disarmed." bookerrising.net