Last spring, Brandeis University disinvited Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born author of Infidel and advocate of women’s rights in Islamic countries, as commencement speaker. Now that she is scheduled to speak at Yale on September 15, members of 35 student groups have signed a letter written by the Muslim Students Association saying that she should be replaced by someone with “representative scholarly qualifications.” The editors of NRO write about the protests elsewhere on this site, commenting that:

…in our age of studious political correctness, where the inmates write the asylum’s curriculum, these students are happy to insulate themselves against any opinions from beyond the Old Campus Quad.

The sponsor of her talk is the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale, which is not likely to rescind its invitation.