Avi Lewis and the Decline of Socialist Thought By Aaron Goldstein

My interest was piqued when I read an e-mail sent by Matthew Brooks, Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition (of which I am a member). His e-mail contained a little blurb on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian who is now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The blurb contained a video link to an interview she did on a CBC Newsworld (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s 24 hour news channel) program while she visited Toronto called On The Map with Avi Lewis in June 2007.(1) Brooks said Hirsi Ali "demonstrated her trademark bluntness in response to condescending and anti-American jibes from the interviewer."

In introducing Hirsi Ali, Lewis described her as a “born again America booster.” Indeed, when Hirsi Ali praised America as the “best democracy”, “the best place to be” and a place where someone can come without a penny and become wealthy, Lewis asked incredulously, “Is there a school where they teach you these American clichés? Is it part of your application process?....I can’t believe you just said that.” Hirsi Ali, in her reposeful manner, replied, “I don’t find myself in the same luxury as you. You can grow up in freedom and you can spit on freedom because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom. I haven’t.” Lewis abruptly concluded the interview.

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