HERETIC

 The terrific book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, "Heretic," should be read by every American.  Basically, she this moment said to me, "if you were a blogger in Bangladesh and said something critical about Islam, they would come to your house, drag you out and hack you to death." This happened. What the f..K, this is what we face according to Ali.  

Having read her book, "Infidel," I was hooked. She is a terrific voice of reason even while enduring  some disappointing views from America. I apologize on their behalf. Ostracized because of her views and a victim of political correctness, she more than answers her critics in "Heretic."

Even when she was in the Netherlands, with all their chest beating on their great display of tolerance, I didn't think they did such a hot job of supporting her. With a courageous person like Ali, they should have been falling all over themselves. And then when her good friend was killed by  a fanatic, they didn't appear to be very outraged; that incident was brutal.   As she was relating the experiences of intolerance, I thought, "come on to 'Merica' (NASCAR pronunciation). "

I was especially happy to see her "call out" all these colossal assholes who either were intimidated, i.e.,  the President of Brandeis. Coward--to let some faculty and students with un-American views, determine what he was going to do. What the f..k. No guts. 

And, proves her point that you can say what you want against most anything/anybody but you better not criticize Islam. Why is it threatening to a liberal view to point out the obvious. And, to accuse her of being am Islamaphobe. What the f..k is that. 

Here is something really interesting, having been a former publisher, I watched "Heretic" debut at 8th on the NY Times best seller list only to  disappear quickly. What the hell. 

My personal belief is that her book, in calling out those in politics and in general, to include our own president, on their wrong headed look at Islam, kind of doomed the sales of "Heretic. " 

I don't want this to sound like some conspiracy theory but there is the old American "live and let live" which we think can be extended to Islam. Not so according to Ali, for lots of reasons. Read the book. 

In the book she tells a great life story which is quite inspirational. Liberals (I hate labels) like myself would like to think that tolerance ruled the day. Forget that. 

According to Ali, there has to be "Reform." But, this is "Alice in Wonderland." By her own admission, the worst thing any Christian has ever said to her is "God bless you." She is heavily guarded and from who. Sure as hell not from a bunch of evangelical Christians, "you convert or you die." Think of a recent event as an example. Migrants are on a leaky vessel escaping from tyranny, and yet along the (haven't verified this but there have been several accounts), way on this dangerous journey, the Muslims took time to throw twelve Christians overboard. These are the people that Hershi Ali wants to reform Islam. I don't think so.