Been there done that. There once was this guy called Trotsky whose followers got beat up and shot for saying Stalin was ruthless dictator who killed and imprisoned millions, because the right wing and fascists were making similar critiques and according Uncle Joe's supporters that put you in the same boat as them. The difference is that the yoshie's of the day at least defended a regime that let women hold drivers licenses, get divorced and go outside bare headed.
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:38:39 -0400> From: critical.montages at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: [lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit)> > On 10/23/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:> >> > So, I take, Yoshie, that your answer is that instead> > of imposing bourgeois wealth and liberties on the> > unwilling masses in typical imperialist fashion, we> > can let the clerics impose Sharia law, stuff the women> > into chadors, authorize honor killings of raped women> > who disgrace their male relatives, beat clean-shaven> > men, hang the queers and stone the adulterers, and> > build a bomb.> > The Right have an "Islamofascism Awareness_ Week_," a modest endeavor> in comparison to tedious repetition of leftists who say much the same> thing as the Right week after week, month after month, year after> year. . . . If you posted what you wrote to www.freerepublic.com or> www.littlegreenfootballs.com, it wouldn't be out of place there -- far> from it, it would no doubt receive many cheers from right-wingers who> have too much time on their hands.> > <http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamic-bigotry/81/the-violent-oppression-of-women-in-islam/>> Terrorism Awareness Project> The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam> > By Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler> > The booklet that you are about to read details some of the principal> ways in which women suffer in the Islamic world – often with religious> and cultural sanction. Many of these crimes against women, such as> wife-beating, are ordained by the Qur'an itself; others, such as> female genital mutilation and honor killing, are praised by Islamic> clerics and hallowed by Islamic culture. That feminists in the West> remain silent about this deeply ingrained and institutionalized> mistreatment of women, and even ally with groups that have devoted> themselves to the spread of Islamic law that justifies this> mistreatment, is one of the unconscionable scandals of our time.> > This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our> nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will> be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26.> Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the> victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad -- as well as to counter the lies of> the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very> existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way,> Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and> to enable them to rally to defend their country.> > In terms of the booklet of our subject today, its cover is a still> photograph that epitomizes Islamic oppression of women, and it has> come to also epitomize the Western feminist non-response to it. The> picture comes from a Dutch film called De Steen (The Stone), directed> by Mahnaz Tamizi, and features the actress Smadar Monsinos. The Stone> dramatizes the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic countries. It> accurately depicts the reality of Islamic Sharia law regarding> adultery: when a couple is caught in adultery, the man is jailed while> the woman is stoned to death.> > It is a telling indication of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of> the Left that it has fastened upon our use of this picture to try to> discredit Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, since the photo does not> depict an actual event – as if women weren't being stoned to death> under Sharia law in Iran and some other Muslim countries today. In> reality, eight women are currently in prison in Iran awaiting death by> stoning for the crime of adultery. A mother was sentenced to be stoned> to death in Iran for adultery just last week. It is typical of the> Left to try to cast opprobrium not upon those responsible for these> harsh realities, but upon us who are trying to draw attention to them> in the name of human rights.> > It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would> defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing> large stones at them, but that is the ultimate thrust of the Left's> outcry against our use of this picture and against Islamo-Fascism> Awareness Week in general. Such are the ironies of our troubled age.> > In this booklet are realities that should be of paramount concern not> just for feminists in the West and their allies on the Left, but of> all those who are concerned with the universality of human rights and> the dignity of every human being.> > To read this booklet, click here.> > (c) 2007 Terrorism Awareness Project All Rights Reserved.> 3,173,123 unique visitors since January 31, 2007> > -- > Yoshie> <http://montages.blogspot.com/>> > ___________________________________> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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