I thought that I could not be more shocked, or further outraged, by the unbelievably offensive behavior of Brandeis University — and then I was proved wrong.

According to The Other McCain, the petition that led to the rescinding of an honorary degree in Social Justice Studies from feminist and exposer of the truth about Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, was started by two of the university’s professors of women’s studies, Karen Hansen and Dian Fox. I know — shocking, isn’t it? In fact, the petition wasn’t just started by faculty; 21% of the signatures on the document were from faculty members who were associated in some capacity with the Women and Gender Studies Program at the university. The petition stated:

 “… by honoring Aayan Hirsi Ali, Brandeis would suggest “to the public that violence toward girls and women is particular to Islam . . .  thereby obscuring such violence in our midst among non-Muslims, including on our own campus,” and concluded:  ”We cannot accept Ms. Hirsi Ali’s triumphalist narrative of western civilization, rooted in a core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western peoples.”

In this I have to disagree with these ladies (and I use that term very loosely here). Perhaps these women need to acquaint themselves with some of the more backward cultural beliefs of the Islamists: forced child marriage, murder of rape victims, hanging of suspected or confirmed homosexuals, stoning of women… should I continue, ladies? In this I have to agree with The Other McCain:

“Perhaps the Brandeis University feminists could send their young female students on a field trip to Tehran, Kabul or Mogadishu to protest against this “triumphalist narrative.””

What do you think? Perhaps they could start off with a trip to observe a local girl undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which is still practiced throughout the Muslim world, then continue on to witness the humiliation of a woman accused by her husband’s family of adultery, and then top it all off by celebrating the forced marriage of a 9 year old to an 80 year old man.

Call me callous, but I really have zero interest in living in a society that views the above as anything but culturally backward, and until these women are personally subjected to the things that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has survived (including FGM and an attempted forced marriage) under radical Islam, I do not see where they have any right to judge her truth or how she shares it.