My editorial this week ended with a coda praising Ayaan Hirsi Ali and, in effect, daring Hillary Clinton to stand up for someone who, as the savagery of Boko Haram has reminded us, has been so right about Islamist terror. As we were closing the magazine Thursday, one of my colleagues commented, apropos my editorial, that it would be interesting to hear from Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the latest developments.
Sure enough, Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured a terrific op-ed by Hirsi Ali. She argued that, “Far from being an aberration among Islamist terror groups, as some observers suggest, Boko Haram in its goals and methods is in fact all too representative,” and that “It is time for Western liberals to wake up….The kidnapping of these schoolgirls is not an isolated tragedy; their fate reflects a new wave of jihadism that extends far beyond Nigeria…” Read the whole thing, as they say.