On 2/20/07, Rajeev Srinivasan <rajeev.srinivasan@gmail.com> wrote:
feb 20th, 2007
the nytimes thought well of the book. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/books/14grim.html?8bu=&emc=bu&pagewanted=all
but the economist was rather critical. they seemed to think that hirsi ali's minor transgressions should prevent us from appreciating her words. in other words, shoot the messenger.
i tend to think of her as a courageous person who spoke up. someone who suffered from genital mutilation and thus had her femininity destroyed deserves our sympathetic attention at the very least as a victim.
