Brandeis University has rescinded its decision to award Aayan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree at this year’s commencement. You might have thought that a Jewish liberal-arts institution that was sufficiently impressed by Ms. Ali’s advocacy of women’s rights to offer her this honor wouldn’t be put off by her outspoken criticism of a culture that subjected her to grisly genital mutilation (the same culture that also relentlessly seeks the destruction of Israel and the subjugation of the Jews), but all that means is that the dhimmitude of the West has got a little farther along than you were aware of.
In case this comes as a surprise to you, here’s an even more depressing exhibit, from Sweden’s former “Integration Minister”:
“We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us.’
As the linked article points out, this one may be “best example of Western Leftist Dhimmitude ever, combining defeatism, inevitability, false hope, and a fatal misunderstanding of Islam all in one sentence.”
So: what does the title of this post mean? It stands for a coinage of my own: Cultural Immunodeficiency Virus, the memetic plague that will be the death of the West.
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This memetic plague is an emetic persistence by the left for self loathing and destruction.
Hirsi Ali’s response is remarkable in its dignity and intelligence.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/09/ayaan-hirsi-ali-response-brandeis-university-statement/scUhyo0C8NuU1DQU8PxtPN/story.html