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June 26, 2017

Democratic Senators Have No Interest in Persecuted Women if They’ve Been Persecuted by Muslims

Moral relativism disguised as cultural sensitivity.

On June 14, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Asra Normani—both from Muslim families—testified before a Senate Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Islamism. None of the committee’s four female Democratic senators asked a single question of either of these two women, and one objected to the very fact that the hearing was taking place. Hirsi Ali and Normani see this silence as evidence of “a deeply troubling trend among progressives”:

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June 26, 2017

  1. Reviving the Peace Process Brings Great Costs and Little Potential for Success

    There is harm in trying.

  2. Democratic Senators Have No Interest in Persecuted Women if They’ve Been Persecuted by Muslims

    Moral relativism disguised as cultural sensitivity.

  3. A Play about a Great Yiddish Play Mangles Its Source to Make Lesbianism Seem Scandalous Again

    The moral indecency of “Indecent.”

  4. Will No One Stop Islamic State’s War on Egyptian Christians?

    The fate of the Copts is now the main measure of the effectiveness of Sisi’s policies.

  5. The Narrow Orthodoxies of Jewish Cosmopolitanism

    Between Princeton and Auschwitz.