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Í lýsingu hópsins er vitnað í orð Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Hún var að missa af því að vera gerð að heiðursdoktor við hinn virta Brandeis háskóla fyrir að nota "neikvæðar staðalímyndir" til að lýsa Íslam.

A private university outside Boston has decided not to award an honorary degree to a Somali-born women's rights activist who has branded Islam violent and "a nihilistic cult of death."

Brandeis University said it had decided not to award an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch parliamentarian who has been a prominent critic of the treatment of women in Islamic society.

Ms Hirsi Ali in a 2003 interview with a Dutch newspaper said that by modern standards, the prophet Mohammed could be considered a paedophile, and in a 2007 interview with the London Evening Standard called Islam "a destructive, nihilistic cult of death."

"We cannot overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values," the university said in a statement late on Tuesday. "We regret that we were not aware of these statements earlier."

Það er vandlifað í hinu nýja heimi pólitísks réttrúnaðar. 

Heimild: The Sidney Morning Herald World

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