Too weird not to link to: Noted historian Niall Ferguson shacks up with militant atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
by Will on February 8, 2010
Too weird not to link to: Noted historian Niall Ferguson shacks up with militant atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Tagged as: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Niall Ferguson, Pundit Gossip
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She’s pretty. What I could never understand was Paul Wolfowitz leaving his wife for General Burkhalter’s sister.
Maybe she’s really funny.
I was not expecting this.
Militancy with regard to belief in God or lack thereof is exactly what Ayaan Hirsi Ali stands against, in fact. A clearly stated, unambiguous, unapologetic view on a question is not necessarily a militant one.
Man, I keep trying to come up with a Goldwater paraphrase of that first sentence.
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