A good article about her, with quotes from her, by Joseph Rago, in Opinion-Journal. Here are two kosmic klips, the first by Hirsi Ali:
The multiculturalism theology, like all theologies, is cruel, is wrongheaded, and is unarguable because it is an utter dogmatism .... Minorities are exempted from the obligations of the rest of society, so they don't improve .... With this theory you limit them, you freeze their culture, you keep them in place.
And the second by the author:
...for this remarkable woman, ideas are not abstractions. She forces us back to first principles, and she punctures complacencies. These ought to be seen as virtues, even by those who find some of Ms. Hirsi Ali's ideas disturbing or objectionable. Society, after all, sometimes needs to be roused from its slumbers by agitators who go too far so that others will go far enough.
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