Today the University of Wisconsin Union Theater will host Ayaan Hirsi Ali as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Originally she was rejected as a speaker – too controversial.
….It is sad and even frightening that students, or any one for that matter, would succumb to the notion that the right to speak is measured by the messenger being timid, meek, and boring.
Fortunately there was an opportunity to revisit the issue and the right thing was done.