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Do lliberals detest Ayaan Hirsi Ali?

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Why do liberals detest Ayaan so much?
Trump, Modi and the Saudi prince provide a clue

Some of these musings might end up as subchapters of a book – a non fiction and likely my analysis of the goings on around the world, only some of which I understand or can write about. Some I do not understand and will be hard pressed to explain let alone analyse. Now I am trying to hone my writing and analytical skills here, and treading through uncharted waters. Same time, storing some of the writings.

So,  why so much of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and why so much of Islamic terror or intolerance? Well, more I observe the global goings on, most of it coming out skewed through a highly biased press system and media outlet, appears to me to be tell tale signs of various kinds of impending doom that might synchronise and unsettle human civilisation as we know it.


Climate change, and food security, and a tsunami of ill-health will combine with incessant war mongering that brings the conflict out of the TV screen and closer to everyone’s home. And finally, an assertive Islam faces and equally assertive resistance, where the resistance if a mind set that wishes to retire all religions to the museum, and Islam tries to establish one religion and one god for all.

This super conflict, all of it man made, is going to wrench the world. The first and second world wars were about Europeans jostling for right to control more of the world. There has been a long time without conflict of that scale. Instead we have had continuous low level warfare in specific regions far away from the west, but with active participation of the west – for almost three generations now. Having a war somewhere far off, has become acceptable to the western mind set. Most do not think about it at all in their day to day work.

But, the war is going to change shape and get a lot closer to western homes in my analysis.

Back to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens wrote –


“Here is the story of a young African woman, born into Islam, who was given every possible occasion to feel grievance, resentment and humiliation yet who has employed her own life as an example of internationalism, tolerance, multiculturalism and the redemption of others. Her humour and irony and fortitude constitute the finest counterpoint to the surly cult of death that presses itself against us. For me, the three most beautiful words in the emerging language of secular resistance to tyranny are Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Secular resistance?

What did Hitchens mean by secular resistance ? I cannot help but try to superimpose that term over say what is happening in Europe with regard to Muslim immigrants, or what is happening in India with regard to protesting CAA.

In India, those that are protesting are mostly the Muslims. Those that are supporting them on main stream and social media – are leftists and liberals. They seem to tout the term “secularism” like a mantra, and accuse the BJP government of moving away from it and towards some sort of religious totalitarianism.

But, though Hitchens is now dead and cannot be asked to clarify, I do believe that what he meant by secular resistance is the opposite of what the liberals are saying in India. This “secular resistance” is supposed to be against Islamic intolerance, not Hindu totalitarianism. In fact, from Hitchens’ point of view, what BJP and the government is doing in India is actually representing secular resistance to Islamic intolerance.

This probably is a good example of how the same text can be conveniently used by parties on opposite sides of the line in the sand, to their advantage. So much for Secular resistance.

Do liberals hate Ayaan Hirsi Ali ?

I have developed a sort of bad habit. Instead of typing liberal, my fingers seem programmed to type pseudo-liberal, although the new term involves far more key strikes. Anyhow, I see a lot of scathing attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali from the liberal clan in the US. I am not certain of all the reasons, but can identify at least three of them.

1)
Liberals actually hate Trump more than they hate almost anyone or anything else. Except if you are an Indian liberal. In this case, you replace Trump with Modi. You hate Modi than anybody ever born anywhere.

But back to Trump – the problem here is really sticky. Ayaan Hirsi Ali supports some actions of Trump. In particular, she supports Trump’s ideas of keeping intolerant, militant type that reek of Islamic terror – away from USA. In the process, if the US institutions are unable to separate a good Muslim from a bad one in some countries, then Trump prefers to ban all Muslims from those countries. This is the policy that Ayaan Hirsi Ali supports about Trump. And she has walked the walk on Islamic terror, before she talked the talk.

And since the liberals, some like to call them Neoliberal, hate Trump more than anything and anybody else, and since Ayaan Hirsi Ali supports what these Neoliberals think and absolutely unacceptable side of Trump – painting all Muslims with the same brush as long as you are from certain suspect countries – the liberals have a powerful reason to hate the guts of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Point number one of why they hate her so much.

2)
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince young Mohammed bin Salman. Well, Saudi Arabia is the epitome of Islamic intolerance and highhandedness, isn’t it? They did not even allow women folk to drive till very recently, and possibly only with a male escort present.

Anyhow, Saudi Arabia represents the worst example of male chauvinism and intolerant Islam that denies women any rights above being a pet animal. A husband can slap a wife in front of their children – this is to teach the children that women need to be kept in their place. Liberals hate this stuff. So they have reason enough to hate Saudi Arabia.

But Ayaan Hirsi Ali threw a spanner into this logic, by actually supporting the young prince Mohammed bin Salman, for starting the process of reforming not only the Saudi society and regulations, but also perception of Islam with regard to people of other religions and women folk. Saudi Arabia has a long way to go – but the young prince has made the first steps towards taking the country to meet up with the rest of the world somewhere in future. Ayaan Hirsi Ali appreciates and publicly supported that.

So what do the liberals do now? They decided to hate Ayaan Hirsi Ali some more. Go figure.

3)
The most serious crime that, according to the liberals, Ayaan has committed is that she asks USA to ban Islam till it can be proven that the religions has been reformed and has learned to treat every human, including women and including those of other faiths and those that are atheists and do not at all believe in God, are all treated absolutely equally and the texts about needing to convert or kill or harm nonbelievers are removed from its text and all preachers reprogrammed.

Result ? Liberals absolutely hate Ayaan Hirsi Ali now.

Again – go figure.

But as one of my friends asked on social media, do all supporters of Trump actually like him for specific policies or do they like him because he so pisses of the liberals.

Pissing off the liberals is a quality that Trump seems to have in the US, and Modi seems to have in India.

And now, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is touted as becoming an anti-Muslim mouthpiece and a despicable Trump follower.

Well – go figure.

I wonder if this deserves to be a subchapter – why the liberals so hate Ayaan Hirsi Ali?

 

About CAA protests – A letter to a Vice chancellor

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Protests against CAA in the name of secularism upsets me no end. These are reasons I have of late really come to dislike liberals and think of them as rotten eggs determined to take the rest of mankind with it.

I also feel it in my bones that this century will bring multiple civilisation and biodiversity crisis to the fore. It is not certain in my mind if mankind will be able to overcome all of them or any one of them, and what will survive at the end of it.

CAA is not the most important of them, but it is one of the litmus paper and indicator of a global crisis that will descend on the planet in different forms and challenge the established order of society. Is this also related to globalisation or the deep state, or the New World Order ? I do not know, and as far as India is concerned, I do not think so.

So what gives? Well, CAA is directly linked with persecution of non-Muslims by Muslims, and in particular in countries around India that have long history of persecution of non Muslims. There are horror stories of mass killings and religious riots from the time these regions separate from each other as the British raj ended.

What remained of India, was supposed to be secular where Hindu, Muslim and others could stay with equal opportunity and safety. But the two splinters made nobodies of being Muslim theocracies. The non-believers have been persecuted for a long long time there. CAA was to ease their effort to get Indian residence and citizenship, should they manage to reach India and seek shelter.

This is taken as being terribly anti-Muslim by the Indian Muslims. This Muslim view is also supported by the liberals and leftists. And it is this liberal and less that really annoy me.

By protesting against CAA, they wish to disenfranchise those persecuted people suffering for generations under repressive theocratic regimes. Even a bimbo can understand this logic. But a liberal will not – and like a stubborn mule, will keep pointing finger at Modi as a blood sucking vampire.

This really gets me mad because this persecution of non-Muslims is getting closer and closer to home for every body, and in particular, the Bengali speaking Hindu population of west bengal, irrespective of if the leftists and liberals will admit it or not.

Half of the Hindu Bengalis have already once been massacred and driven off their land in todays Bangladesh to take refuse across the border in India. Very soon, they become a minority if the goings continues. At this time, I have no illusion that the remaining Hindu Bengali will either have to convert, or be killed, or be driven off as refugees, all over again. And this time there will not be any Bengali speaking land left for them. They will be perpetual refugees like the Hindu Kashmiri.

I get really upset when the myopic intellectual Hindu leftists sing the false songs of Hindu-Muslim harmony and bark at Modi for spoiling their party.

BJP and Modi appear to be the only thing that stands between annihilation of Hindu Bengali and sustainability.

When the Muslims preach unbelievable hatred towards Hindus, detailed enough to make ones blood boil, that is not shown as hate speech. But if a Hindu pints that out, like I am doing here, that is identified as hate speech.

This are reasons I absolutely loathe the liberal myopia in India. These are parts of the reason I started calling the liberals pseudo-liberals, a term already going around and a good one to pick up.

So, the leftists and liberals had called a shut-down-India notice. In Santiniketan, West Bengal, leftist students of the Vishva-Bharati university  and agitated in front of the administrative office in an effort to shut it down or otherwise register their protest against the Government passing this law to assist persecuted minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, that often end up as refugees in India because they find kinship with Indian culture, people and land.

The leftists identify any such Government effort in helping such persecuted people as being anti-Muslim, anti-secularism, and similar to Hitler’s Nazism. The degree of hypocrisy of the leftist is beyond belief. Joining hands with them on the issue of CAA are often the English educated pseudo-liberals who have lost all ability to think outside the box and by and large still judge India through the English liberal mans eyes, though the English eyes have at times been replaced by American liberals.

India is going through a major change of character. The so called old guard, is giving way to a new age younger groups of upwardly mobile population that do not carry the colonial baggage nor are they in awe of the white man or the main stream media. They do not feel apologetic for being brown skinned Indians. And they do not like being ridiculed for being of the Hindu faith.

There is a new kind of class struggle perhaps emerging in the educational institutions. For a very long time – many of the student organisations were communist or some sort of leftists. The only other alternative was Congress party – the so called national centrist party but in actuality it is a carry over of the British, Muslim appeasing, Hindu hating status quo maintaining dynastic Nehru gang that changed their name to adopt the Gandhi facade without having any link with the Mahatma. But, devoid of leadership and rift with corruption, Congress today is as good as extinct, being reduced to the sidelines. All the three political icons, Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka, are today political pigmies. So congress influence in the student body is more or less gone – far as I know.

But the new kid in the block represents the assertive Hindu groups in support of BJP and Modi. Ideological differences are now the source of much friction and fracas. But looking from afar – the new India is rising, and the old India is fighting a rearguard battle.

So, in Vishva-Bharati, the leftists tried to cause a stir – perhaps a few dozen folks. Along with them was a female student from Bangladesh on a student visa. She had already spent a year in the university but did not bother taking her annual exam. Which caused her to be removed from the University, but she got a re-admission, back to first year. She too joined the anti-government agitation protesting CAA. She too does not want, I suppose, that India Government should pass a law to protect those persecuted minorities from her own country, or from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The issue hit the news because the Indian Government has issued her a notice that she violated the Foreigners act because she engaged in anti-national activity by protesting agains laws enacted by the Government of India which violates the condition under which any foreigner can stay. She is given fifteen days to leave India.

Now there is a brewing protest agains the Government for expelling the student.

I had posted against the leftists and the foreign student using strong words on my own wall, in English and Bengali, fully supporting the Government for asking the foreign student to leave the country. I have very strong views not only on implementation of CAA but also about those that oppose it and in actuality allow more persecution of non-Muslims by those Muslim nations. These countries, especially Bangladesh is also responsible for continuously flooding India with more and more intolerant Muslim refugees that alter the demography and threaten to turn West Bengal into an outpost of Bangladesh some day. I have seen little evidence that this scenario is unlikely to happen.

Anyhow, the student is said to be from Silpa Sadan – in the design section. I have had some involvement in donating a lot of my savings to help Silpa Sadan stand on its feet with a free hand in handling its finances without dependence of UGC funding and harassment of University accountants which was stifling the unit. Following initiative taken by the University and suggestion from the then Governor of West Bengal, my support, along with that of a second ex-student living in the UK, helped the department to achieve financial security and independence from UGC funding in its product development sale and purchase section, and got back to producing and healthy performance.

And thus, a letter was sent to the Vice Chancellor. I know this letter is disliked by the leftists and the pseudo liberals. But that’s absolutely OK with me. I did not write it to be popular. I did write it because I strongly believe India needs it and it will be better served without the myopic and self destructive leftists and pseudo-liberals.