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"Having a clothes drive would really help."
There was a panel discussion at the University of Virginia the other day, and the topic was ISIS and their crimes against women. Here is the blurb from the UVA campus paper.
On the one hand, I'm glad somebody in academia is talking about the horrible things that ISIS is doing to women (and men). It should be pointed out that Esfandiari, was a prisoner for several months in 2007 in Teheran's notorious Evin prison on trumped up charges.
On the other hand, did anybody mention the word, "Islam"? Apparently not, so if that was the case, the audience didn't learn much about why this is happening and what ISIS considers its motivation for slaughtering so many people.
And there was this gem:
"To prevent such an outcome, there will need to be greater direct intervention by the West, Nicholson said. There also need to be greater efforts to “protect and develop” the foundations of democracy and the principles of private ownership and property."
I would say the clothes drive has more chance of success.
* In the interest of full disclosure, I received a masters degree from UVA in 1993 when I was 48 years old.
And what did I major in, you ask?
You don't wanna know.
I would think you majored in booze and wenching, but that's only a guess based on your current expressions.
ReplyDeleteWhat does Islam have to do with whether it is wrong to sell women into slavery?
The quote: "There also need to be greater efforts to “protect and develop” the foundations of democracy and the principles of private ownership and property", is stunning. It becomes obvious that the panel knows almost nothing of Islamic ideology that comes from the Koran and Mohammad's biography. He was a warrior prophet who massacred the local and distant tribes and Jewish communities and took their woman and wives as slaves and their land and their wealth. Devout Muslims see him as the perfect man. So much for the foundations of democracy and principals of ownership of private property. This is just another case of intellectuals without intellect or worse, deception.
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Oh nonsense, Squid. Mohammed had some local political disputes with the tribes around Yathrib, some of which were Jewish, but once the armies rolled out of Arabia (two years post his death), the Muslims found Jewish allies everywhere they went, welcomed their aid, and privileged them much as the kings of Persia had centuries earlier.
ReplyDeleteYes, Siarlys and the Germans were welcomed with garlanbds when they marched down the Champs d"Elysees in 1940.
ReplyDeleteGermans were welcomed with garlands, Gary? Do you have documentary evidence of that? I think you must be on a very bad hangover to put that forward in public.
ReplyDeleteWhere is your sense of sarcasm, Siarlys?
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