(IPT) She certainly looked like Linda Sarsour, the flame-throwing Islamist political activist. And the speaker had Sarsour’s voice. But the woman who spoke Monday night at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts seemed entirely unfamiliar with Sarsour’s own views.
Arguing that “unity is not uniformity,” Sarsour said she’s “cool with” people who don’t share her views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as long as they can work together on other causes.
“It doesn’t matter to me who you are,” she said. “Come to the aid of people who are the most broken in our country, and that’s the thing that I never just understood. I never went to a movement and asked people to fill out a form and say, ‘please tell me all your political views.’ I mean, that’s not how it works.”
But that’s exactly what she did.
