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A recent article by 'Miz Daisy Cutter' does not actually have much in the way of comments, but what she says strikes me as very odd (and, to be honest, uncharacteristic of her). She provides a video of a programme called 'On The Map' presented by Avi Lewis.
Daisy Cutter's blog entry
You Tube video
Above the embedded media she writes:
"...because you do not know what is not to have freedom. I haven't."
Below she writes:
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 1. Avi Lewis, 0"
In case anyone is confused by Daisy Cutter's quotation with its triple negative (I certainly had trouble understanding it from the quotation alone) it works as follows in context. She (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) knows what it is like not to have freedom and the interviewer (Avi Lewis) does not. It seems a bit odd that Daisy Cutter is praising Hirsi Ali for pretty much claiming that Lewis 'hates freedom'. (Surely Daisy Cutter would not buy into that kind of Fox News rhetoric?)
It wasn't obvious to me that Hirsi Ali won the debate (if indeed, there was a winner or loser). Where I was particularly horrified was where she was claiming that if Muslims really didn't like their situation in the US they would leave, as if the fact that Muslims had not gone as far as fleeing the country meant that they had no cause for complaint. I wonder whether that means that no atheists are really discriminated in the US either, since they too have not decided to leave the country.
Atheist Blog Original source of video
Daisy Cutter's blog entry
You Tube video
Above the embedded media she writes:
"...because you do not know what is not to have freedom. I haven't."
Below she writes:
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 1. Avi Lewis, 0"
In case anyone is confused by Daisy Cutter's quotation with its triple negative (I certainly had trouble understanding it from the quotation alone) it works as follows in context. She (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) knows what it is like not to have freedom and the interviewer (Avi Lewis) does not. It seems a bit odd that Daisy Cutter is praising Hirsi Ali for pretty much claiming that Lewis 'hates freedom'. (Surely Daisy Cutter would not buy into that kind of Fox News rhetoric?)
It wasn't obvious to me that Hirsi Ali won the debate (if indeed, there was a winner or loser). Where I was particularly horrified was where she was claiming that if Muslims really didn't like their situation in the US they would leave, as if the fact that Muslims had not gone as far as fleeing the country meant that they had no cause for complaint. I wonder whether that means that no atheists are really discriminated in the US either, since they too have not decided to leave the country.
Atheist Blog Original source of video
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