Reuters Played Blame-the-Victim and Minimized Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Childhood Sexual Trauma


	Reuters Played Blame-the-Victim and Minimized Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Childhood Sexual Trauma

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eb2c8ee5-650d-4b2b-88a3-159f31fa4796/4D8499AA-8B9A-4F91-9975-9EB7D7D3EDC0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsbusters.org/node/12351" href="http://newsbusters.org/node/12351" style="font-size: 11px;">newsbusters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/node/12351"><H2 class="page-title">Reuters Played Blame-the-Victim and Minimized Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Childhood Sexual Trauma</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/node/12351"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/newsbusters.org/img/3764A4D5-3EE5-4CD7-A7E4-772EC5A8DC0C" alt="BBC photo of Hirsi Ali" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/node/12351"><P>Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali immigrated to the US from Holland in 2006 after her <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali" title="Hirsi Ali's entry in Wikipedia">controversial</A> views of Islam (she called it “backwards”) resulted in serious death threats and the eventual murder of a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_%28film_director%29">friend</A>. An April 24 Reuters <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/24/AR2007042402193_pf.html" title="Washington Post article ">article</A> by Alexandra Hudson (picked up by the Washington Post website) stressed the theme that the Muslim women of Holland were relieved that she left for America. It also engaged in a slick game of “blame-the-victim” and  minimized the agonizing childhood violence she experienced by describing her flight from “<STRONG>an arranged marriage and abusive family who had her <I>circumcised</I> as a child.”</STRONG>   </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4D8499AA-8B9A-4F91-9975-9EB7D7D3EDC0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>