“You grew up in freedom, and so you can spit on freedom, because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Not quite parody but dangerously close. How can she be so disgustingly pro-American, he wonders, and yet so stridently anti-Islamic? Doesn’t she see that Islamists and “Christianists” are two sides of the same coin?
MWV file here if you have problems with the CBC version (34 megs).
Don’t miss the comments. It seems that having one’s genitals sliced half off in the name of Muslim purity, a colleague murdered in broad daylight in the street for the crime of criticizing Islam, living in hiding under armed guard, and being forced from your home by court order because your neighbors fear the jihadists who have pledged to kill you is insufficient personal experience from which to draw conclusions about the relative merits of Islam and America.
As one of the progressive CBC faithful so eloquently explains, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is little more than a “prized puppy”.
Or, to think of in another way – of about the same relative value under his belief system as the average Somali woman is entitled to under Sharia law.
You’ve come a long way, baby.
h/t.
(It was suggested I bump this item closer to page top so that readers don’t miss the Dennis Prager link below)
Update – Avi Lewis is becoming famouser by the minute…. developing….
Here’s a minor, but encouraging, bit of trivia. Went online to check out my library system for reserving a copy of Ali’s book. They have about 20 copies, so i figure, no waiting. My queue position is 123; so i guess i’d better buy it or wait a long while.
Point is, her words are getting out and there is huge interest, despite those who try to ignore it.
What the heck is the use of a Conservative government if they can’t do anything about the CBC?
I’m willing to bet $26.00 and my right nut that that little puke won’t be on Dennis Prager’s show any time soon. Although it would be fun to hear him getting torn a new one though.
No, for tearing a new one, you don’t look to Prager, who is quite a Mr. Rogers for the most part. If we could trick Lewis into going on Hugh Hewitt. Oh man, when he’s on his game he can slice you and dice you.
(It was suggested I bump this item closer to page top so that readers don’t miss the Dennis Prager link below)
The blogosphere has never hit the CBC harder.
Bump it to the top and keep it there all week(and add a picture of Ayaan smiling at that leftist snotbag’s stupidity)…
Avi Lewis does deserve some cred for airing an interview in which he is completely owned. Unfortuantely he came up short with not admitting that his whole basis of thinking was shown to be flawed by someone for whom English is at best a 2nd language.
This is a powerful statement against moral relativism and for moral objectiveness. Truth is Truth.
Reminds me, though not as powerful, as the time the Syrian woman totally owned a Muslim cleric and commentator on Al Jajriza a while ago. The Syrian woman lives and teaches at a university in Calaifornia now and escaped Syria.
The best line is, “You can spit of freedom, because you are free and have never not been free.”
they had a reception for him and his new bride(zilla), Naomi Klein
Ya but at least he married within the faith. Not like some of those faux socialists that marry neo-cons or worse Christians.
More comments from Kathy Shaidle please.
Kathy’s got her game face on with this one.
Iain and mistahtibbs above make good points. I would like to give Lewis credit for letting her speak, which for the most part he did, and of course for airing the interview. Now, I do understand that he’s so far out there that he doesn’t know what an idiot he made of himself during that interview. That’s actually one of the major problems with leftists — they don’t know how much they don’t know. They also project their own mindset onto others, as many posters above have noted with respect to Lewis’s sneer that Hirsi Ali must have studied a list of cliches somewhere. Of course that’s simply a projection of his own talking-points approach.
Will Avi appear on Prager? Probably not, but he will go to all his fellow Bloor West Village foreign-film-watching, chai-tea-drinking chums and tell them war stories about being attacked all week by the “arch-conservatives”. Because, as we know, being a liberal means REVELLING IN VICTIMHOOD!
(Kathy: Prager may be a poodle to Hewitt’s pit-bull, but Prager always gets his leftist guests to expose their sicknesses on their own, without them even knowing it. I prefer his style to the prosecutorial Hewitt – although Hewitt vs. Andrew Sullivan was perhaps the best hour of radio I’ve ever heard!)
I just never get it with the Jews who think that championing the causes of people who hate them irrevocably will somehow save their butts in the long run.
People like Avi Lewis and his family probably know a few Muslims who are highly educated and cultured, with whom they can have pleasant and civilized discussions about “life”. They think that they can all just get along.
But these “old school” Canadian muslims who have been here for decades and are successful professionally and socially (else the Lewis’ and their ilk would never run into them except in a cab) are utterly unrepresentative of the typical Muslim immigrant coming to Canada now, working as a cab driver or in a factory, much more religious, far less educated, and coming from places where hatred of Jews is so deeply ingrained as to be inseparable from their own identity.
This story has happened time and again – in Russia, in post-WWII Europe, in the US Civil rights movement, Jewish intellectuals often led the anti-establishment “champion of the downtrodden” movements, only to have the Stalinists, communists, and black power activists turn around and attack them viciously once they achieved power. Don’t they learn????
If Lewis ever gets on Pragers show I hope someone links to it.
Iain (9:44 P.M., July 17)
I believe you’re referring to Wafa Sultan (Syrian woman, MEMRI TV). Well worth watching.
I would never have caught “the Beav’s” interview of Ayaan Hirsi Ali unless I picked it up at a place like SDA; I never… NEVER… watch the Canadian Broadcorping Castration. Not even NHL playoff hockey.
Simple inertia has carried the CBC forward for far too long. It’s not a Canadian institution, not any longer. It’s federal funding should be cut completely off; I contend it wouldn’t be very difficult to do.
Why worry about the politics of it? Government largesse has dried up in many other places over the last 20 years or so. In a few weeks, the hard core of CBC supporters… and there are precious few of them… would be the only ones to remember the CBC. The ROC would have forgotten all about it.
Pay attention to the 7:31 mark folks.
That’s all I have left to say…
http://no-libs.com/?p=1877
Agreed about Sullivan (and that’s followed by James Lilek’s wonderful imitation of Sullivan’s bizarre performance — everyone should listen to them back to back).
Also for fun, there’s Hewitt’s interview with LA Time’s Joel Klein, who wrote a ‘why I don’t support the troops’ column. Now, I actually understood what Klein was getting at, but the way Hewitt went from casually asking the guy where he went to school to slowly evicerating him, it was like Bolero with a stiletto!
Kathy S…
I heard Lileks’ imitation of Andrew Sullivan a couple months back; how Lileks-come-Sullivan lept from HH’s most inane statements to the most wildly fantastic machinations was, simply, a hoot!
I haven’t been able to catch the weekly clips of Hugh Hewitt’s interviews lately but, when I can, I like to listen to his regular chats with Mark Steyn; Steyn always boils thing down to their most basic level, and usually good for a few laughs.
Be a giggle if Limbaugh picked this up, eh? Avi could have his Leftardation paraded in front of a bigger audience than CBC will ever have.
Here’s more enlightened reading from our favourite anti-American, Bush bashing, capitalist-hating, christian bashing, tax-payer funded commie …
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2005/a_canadian_response.pdf
“I won’t go deeper into that argument, because
it has been made far more elegantly in the writings of one Naomi Klein.” – actually he won’t go any deeper, because he is a narrow-minded, shallow thinker…pitching for his looney wife to boot… almost capitalistic there comrade…
Everything Avi Lewis knows about America, he learned from Michael Moore.
What is most disturbing about his mindset, is that he takes for granted his freedoms. The biggest lesson 9/11 has taught my generation, is that after the Cold War detente of mutually-assured destruction, there is no balance now. There is merely those who appreciate freedoms, and how difficult it is to protect them, and those who abuse it. As personified by the highly educated, student visa-bearing flight school attendees who hijacked those planes and murdered thousand of innocent civilians.
“Stolen elections?” Maybe, only if you look at it that the Democrats ran Al Bore in 2000, and Not-too-swift John Kerry in 2004. The GOP simply worked harder, and better understood the Electoral College system. They stole them the old-fashioned way, they earned them.
You never hear Democrats talking about how JFK really did steal the 1960 election.
Our PM, as glad as I am to have him in office and the meager progress achieved thus far, would really build up our nation’s pride by seriously gutting CBC television. I believe strongly that CBC radio is a wonderful service in our dominion of open space, and if you don’t like it, change the channel.
CBC TV is a different animal entirely. It needs to be neutered.
Be a giggle if Limbaugh picked this up, eh? Avi could have his Leftardation paraded in front of a bigger audience than CBC will ever have.
…and wouldn’t it be a feather in his cap to be attacked by Big Bad Rush? He’d probably wear that like a bagde of honour in the TO tearooms his ilk frequent.
Let’s turn the heat up on Avi. Send the clip to your friends, send it to any blog that might pick it up.
I’m sure more Americans would like to see this.
This guy wants to spout off? Let’s see him defend his views. He’s making out like a bandit on CBC, let’s see him earn it. We’re paying his salary, let’s get our money’s worth.
Send it to your MP or Bev Oda and ask why we are paying for this.
He lives in his little socialist echo chamber and I’m sure he thinks he won the debate.
We need to educate him on that, it’s the least we can do for the poor deluded soul.
“No, for tearing a new one, you don’t look to Prager, who is quite a Mr. Rogers for the most part.”
Not quite, Ms. Shaidle. You look to Dick Cheney ala Wolf Blitzer and the 12 gauge stare of doom that made Wolf fill his Depends undergarments.
Avi would be eating carrots through a straw after that one.
I was watching the Lewis boy a couple weeks ago, before the Ali interview. (hey, there isnt much on basic cable, besides American Inventor.)
He first interviewed someone from a ‘big bad mining company’, and then interviewed some activist. It was incredible the difference in his treatment of the two. The activist was softballed, and there were jokes and smiles. With the company rep, it was completely hostile.
As I was turning it off, I wondered if Lewis was even aware of how much he resembled a high school cheerleader?
Since 9/11, racism trumps sexism in the world of the lefty. The hatred of America runs so deep with these people that they will refrain from condemning anything Islam at all costs. They refuse to criticize the enemies of their enemy. Where are all the feminists speaking out about the atrocious oppression of their fellow sisters? And why isnt this Lewis guys mother, Michelle Landsberg, as staunch a feminist as there is, speaking out about the horrific mutilation this woman has endured?
Ironically enough, I first heard of female genital mutilation over 20 years ago on the Jane Hawtin show. She was outraged, like anyone would be, and if memory serves, she was a Toronto feminista.
You’ve come a long way, indeed.
Would someone please explain to me the love affair between the left and Muslim fundamentalism. They demonize Bush (homophobia is rampant in the U.S.) for not sanctioning gay marriage and give muslims a pass for burying homosexuals up to their necks and throwing rocks at their heads! What’s better, getting married or getting to live? Doesn’t little Avi realize that he wouldn’t last five minutes in a country like Iran. He’s Jewish for God’s sake. Lewis and his ilk will be our hamartia as this clash of civilizations unfolds.
Never hear of this Avi Lewis guy. Hope to never again — but Jesus Loves him too…Orlin
Little Green Footballs has linked the video today. The Avi Lewis train wreck keeps moving across the internet.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26321_Video-_Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali_vs._Northern_Moonbat&only