Speaking of silencing opposing viewpoints, the actual comments Ali was criticized for are reproduced here:
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Reason: Here in the United States,
you’d advocate the abolition of—
Hirsi Ali:
All Muslim schools. Close them down. Yeah, that sounds absolutist. I think 10 years ago things were different, but now the jihadi genie is out of the bottle. I’ve been saying this in Australia and in the U.K. and so on, and I get exactly the same arguments:
The Constitution doesn’t allow it. But we need to ask where these constitutions came from to start with—what’s the history of Article 23 in the Netherlands, for instance? There were no Muslim schools when the constitution was written. There were no jihadists. They had no idea.
The University stated that these comments, the idea of shutting down religious freedom, were antithetical to the views of the University. If a University declined to allow a vicious anti-Christian speaker who wanted all Christian schools shut down, would you consider it a bigoted liberal attack meant to silence that person?