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If there is any area on which modern day liberalism is not willing to compromise its beliefs in order to appease the worst excesses of radical Islam, I have yet to find it. The staunchest defenders of human rights are oddly silent about the most eggregious human rights violations facing Muslims, mainly women and children. To the extent that ANY of them speak about barbaric practices such as female genital mutilation...it is usually to defend such practices.

One of the most grissly recent stories to fit this model is the tale of Yasser Abdul Said who murdered his daughters Amina and Sarah for offending his honor. No stories on DailyKos or DemocraticUnderground. And in a search on yahoo, google, and even ask.com, the first 40 stories are all from right wing blogs, usually linking either to JihadWatch and Robert Spencer, or to Phyllis Chesler. This is a case of TRUE theocratic religious zealots murdering their daughters for impure sexuality (real or imagined) and for religious reasons...yet, there is silence.

As Chesler reports:

[B]ased on extensive interviews that I have done with the female relatives of the murdered Texas teenagers, it is clear that:

a) Amina and Sarah were expected to wear headscarves. Their failure to do so, their “hidden” lives as normal American teenagers, doomed them.

b) Amina and Sarah were expected to enter into arranged marriages against their will to much older Egyptian men whom they had never met. Their refusal to do so doomed them.

c) Amina and Sarah were expected to keep quiet about the horrific sexual, physical, and psychological abuse which was heaped upon them by their father, mother, and brother. Their failure to do so doomed them.

d) Amina and Sarah were not supposed to have “boyfriends.” At the very least, their friends, both male and female, were not supposed to be Christians. The fact that they were friendly with Christian male teenagers doomed them.

e) Amina and Sarah were supposed to learn to hate America and to choose Shari’a law. Their failure to do so doomed them.

These are only some of the “rules” that Amina and Sarah were expected to obey. One of my informants has quoted their brother Islam, who often stalked his sisters, as saying: “They knew the rules. They broke them.” Islam is saying that it is their fault that his father had to kill them.

Thus, whenever you see a woman in a face veil, headscarf, or burqa, it is very likely that these rules also apply to her.

Western feminists, who leap to defend the poor and downtrodden female from having to unfairly look at ultrasounds of their unborn fetus, report to their parents that they need to travel across state lines to have an abortion at the age of 12, or have a 15 cent an hour wage difference from their male counterparts...are shockingly silent about the execution of two beautiful young women by their zealot father for not conforming to his expectations of their lives.

The charge of racism to anyone who brings up such issues is not only irresponsible...it is silly. How is it racist to try and defend women and children of color or minority faith? All those who would defend “the Muslim community against such slander” is defend behaviors that lead to the deaths of young women the world over in such “honor killings”. It’s just a shame that some would rather play victim politics than save lives. That those who would defend western women from the rather minor inconvenience of a wage disparity would not stand up for their sisters who are being executed by a very real patriarchy is a terrible dereliction of duty. And that some would actually defend a patriarchy responsible for such attrocities is disgusting and pathetic.

On this blog, I will occasionally post a side project of mine...what I call “Looking at the Left from the Left: Why Liberal Ideas Don’t Make Sense from a Liberal Worldview”. The point of this project is to show why all liberal thought is deeply and inherently self contradictory, and why it is a deeply reactionary ideology, bereft of any coherent unifying belief system or logical backbone.

No logical, coherent philosophy could produce the thought pattern that a wage gap (real or imagined) is an unacceptable patriachial business world discriminating against women...but that a man who cuts out his daughter’s sexual organs is just a cultural difference we need to understand. No rational person could ever argue that a woman has the unmitigated right to an abortion, yet has no right to smoke, or eat foods made with certain ingrediants. And no intelligent person could rationally expect minority children to succeed in a “deeply racist white boy world” by “acting black” or refusing to speak english.

Even if one tries to accept all Liberal arguments as fact, it doesn’t become long until we start hitting snags. “If it is responsible for a woman to have an abortion if she cannot keep a child, then why is it good for the state to subsidize, and indeed, even incourage, such women to keep the child by having a welfare state?” “If sex is an inherently coersive act...where a man is asserting his dominance over a woman, thereby exploiting her, then why would a company like Planned Parenthod go out of it’s way to hide statutory rape, and further the sexual exploitation of girls by older men?” “If it is violation of the Seperation of Church and State to have the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge, or to have the 10 Commandments in a courtroom...then how can it be remotely Constitutional to force California school Children to take a Muslim name, recite prayers in Arabic, and play jihad?”

It is my belief that these are not minor problems with the liberal worldview, but are emblematic of a deeply irrational worldview.

Over the course of these posts (identified with a LotL or LBL before each title), when I speak about things like “seperation of Church and State”, “right to an abortion”, and other such topics, these are usually not my personal views, but its simply me arguing from a leftist perspective to show the problems with the basic liberal conclusion. Hopefully, this will stop needless arguing when I call waterboarding torture, or refer to our soldiers as killing. If there’s a real question on where I stand, feel free to send me a message, and I will clarify my actual position.

I’m certainly up to examining any topic that I’m asked to. And I’m open to any real criticism or additions to the project.


http://www.theleftfromtheleft.blogspot.com

While he expounds on each problem, and the different views to it, we’ll just skip to Obama’s solutions:

Obama’s solution (to our disagreements about taxes): Shared sacrifice. If your last name begins with A through E, Obama will continue the Bush tax cuts. If your last name begins with F through L, Obama will allow the Bush tax cuts to expire. If your last name begins with M through Z, Obama will raise your taxes. Now the following fiscal year, those with last names beginning A through E face a tax increase. The F through L’s get the Bush tax cuts. And the L through Z’s will have their tax cuts expire. The next fiscal year, Obama will rearrange the cuts, depending, of course, on your last name, and will continue this rotation every year of his administration.
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Obama’s solution(on Iraq): Withdraw all troops by the year 2009. Then send them back in 2010, followed by their return to America in 2011, with another redeployment to Iraq in 2012. These on/off, every-other-year rotations would continue throughout his presidency. This satisfies those who want the troops home immediately. But it also appeases those who consider our national security dependent upon a military presence in Iraq. This policy also confuses our enemy, since they never know whether we are coming or going.
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Obama’s solution (on health care): Provide universal health insurance to those without it. Allow those happy with their current health-care policies to retain them. Who pays for the uninsured 47 million? Tax Canada.
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Obama’s solution (on global warming): Force Lutz to square off on pay-per-view against Al Gore in an Ultimate Fighting Championship no-holds-barred death match. The winner gets to decide America’s policy on climate change.
Hopefully this comforts the naysayers who doubt whether Barack Obama can, indeed, bring us together.

Read the whole thing. Elder demonstrates just why those who believe Obama can “bring us all together” are absolute idiots.

By recreating the recent Democratic Debate:

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Or a derivation thereof. On a recent show he made the comment that (paraphrased) “Of course, we don’t expect Bush and them to serve. They’re too old. They’re not good age for the military. But why aren’t their children serving? Why are’t Bush’s daughters over there fighting the war? Why don’t any of the supporters of the war send their children over there?”

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After reading several threads on Say anything about how Barack Obama is the “inevitable candidate”, I felt I needed to point something out. If the trends continue as they have been, Hillary Clinton will become candidate.

Clinton and Obama will probably split the Texas delegates, 93-90 (Obama) and the Ohio delegates 70-56 (Clinton, some undecided-most likely to go to Clinton).

Given that the superdelegates have been going to Hillary at a rate of between 4-5 to Obama’s 3, Hillary is still the nominee given any way you look at the polls.

If the super delegates continue to vote the same way they have been, Obama doesn’t have a chance unless he starts beeing Hillary in 70-30 margins.

After watching almost a month of Conan and Leno without the writers, and not being subjected to the tripe they put on SNL, the return of the writers was as much of a shock as drinking a gallon of bleach. Leno was ten times funnier without his writers, and Conan spinning his ring was funnier than anything his writers ever came up with for him. Not a funny skit on SNL tonight.

Time for them to go back on strike.

For over a year now, we’ve heard about the evils of water boarding from anti-war left. So surely, when given a chance to walk the walk, we could count on our two leading Democratic candidates to vote yay on a measure to ban such interrogation?

From Malking:

Neither Clinton or Obama could be bothered to vote on the issue. This after both candidates have made it clear how immoral this process is and how it needs to be stopped immediately.

Worthless. The both of em.

From Moonbattery

Equivalents would be Heinrich Himmler’s face on a Nazi flag, Felix Dzerzhinsky on a Soviet flag or Honcho Nuon Chea on the flag of the Khmer Rouge’s Cambodia. None of these socialist sociopaths was more aggressively evil than Guevara. Humberto Fontova documents some of the dark deeds of Fidel Castro’s chief executioner.

Yet the mainstream media doesn’t seem to find this worth mentioning.

Leftists constantly worship socialist monsters who left nothing but suffering and daed bodies in their wake. But it’s those right wingers who are the bad guys don’tcha know?

From Michelle Malkin:

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reminding law-enforcement officials of the increased use of female suicide bombers worldwide, and warning that women terrorists might hide explosives in devices “that mimic the look of a pregnant woman.”

The unclassified DHS threat assessment, released Monday and obtained by NBC News, shows photographs of “pregnancy prosthetics,” hollowed-out devices that could hold explosive devices. The report says “female suicide bombers have used devices that make them appear pregnant to hide explosive devices.”

The DHS report states that terrorists are using female bombers more frequently, in part because these attacks generate “more widespread media exposure.” It adds: “Continued use of female suicide bombers-the most recent example being a 3 February 2008 attack at the main railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka-indicates that terrorists judge this tactic as effective in increasing defenses and thwarting security measures.”

Making suicide bombers look pregnant as a way of avoiding detection is despicable. It’s just one more sign of what vicious monsters our enemies are, and yet another reminder that our enemies aren’t doing this because they’re poor or mistreated, but downright evil.

Anyone who would use their child to hide a bomb, recruit the mentally retarded, or begin teaching infants and little kids to martyr themselves is part of a virulent culture of death...one that must be eradicated before it spreads.

After reading the absolutely silly Owens article (reposted by Proof), this phrase, more than any other, stuck out:

But McCain is far superior to the Democratic contenders on the basis of character and virtue. For instance, once the North Vietnamese found out that McCain was the son of the U.S. military commander in the Pacific theater, which included Vietnam, they offered him the chance to go home before his POW comrades.

No one is denying McCain is a war hero, or a true American. This is not a sufficient reason to vote for him. Much of the article seems to read as a recount of his war record. But NO ONE is attacking this. If being a soldier was enough, we would’ve voted for Wesley Clark.

It is telling that Owens chooses to talk extensively about the past, and say absolutely nothing about McCain’s actual voting record...except to tell us that it’s no worse than Obama. That’s it? No worse?

So he’d be (maybe) a step above Obama or Clinton, or equal...BUT NO WORSE! Indeed, on immigration, taxes, abortion, class warfare, etc, he is no different. And on the war (one of the two areas he is claimed to be superior), he consistantly voted with Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama to close Gitmo, to offer terrorists access to our courts, and offered a non-binding resolution that demanded Iraqis make certain benchmarks or risk losing American support.

The idea that he’s a huge hawk is misleading at best.

Likewize, it is pure fantasy that McCain would appoint conservative judges. Much as when Guiliani was promising to appoint conservative judges, McCain’s promise flies in the face of reality that he has consistantly not only voted against conservative principals, but has taken great delight in pissing off the conservative base in doing so.

McCain may have character, and may vote on principal, but that principal is not anything remotely conservative. And his character is little more than a shield to deflect criticism of his abysmal record.

In short Owens is playing the military infallibility card that failed to get Kerry elected in 2004. Hopefully it’ll fail just as badly this time...but in the primaries.

From Michelle Malkin.com:

A leading al Qaeda member in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, a Web site often used by the group and other Islamists said on Thursday.

A banner on the Ekhlaas.org site said Libi had fallen as a martyr, without giving further details.

It was not immediately clear if Libi’s death was linked to a suspected U.S. missile strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region this week.

The attack had targeted second or third tier al Qaeda leaders, according to residents in the tribal area.

Tribesmen in the area had said a deputy of Libi, a senior al Qaeda leader, had been staying there and was among the dead, according to an intelligence official.

Like most of us, I don’t care whether the US got him....or whether he tripped and happened to land on one of those IEDs that al Quida like to leave laying around for us...or little kids...to find. One more savage troglodyte gone, and the world is a little more safe.

I posted this once before. But with the recent influx of Ron Paul=Savior/Chuck Norris/Adam West Batman/Raptor Jesus, I felt it deserved another post.

The Ron Paul Record

Since the Paulistas always tout the nonsense rhetoric that Paul spouts, without actually telling people about his real record, I put this back up in case anyone was fooled.

After an 8 hour drive from St. Louis to Wichita, and then into the little podunk town called Mulvayne (10 miles south), I didn’t expect much from my trip to the treeless land they call Kansas.

But after spending a week with my sister and neices, I feel re-energized and centered. Despite the drive I feel almost like a new person, and starting a new job (hooray to more money) helps too!

But I’m happy to be back, and am ready to crank it back up a notch at SayAnything. It’s nice to take a step back from the world every now and again, get away from them thar Intarwebs, and go do something deeply personal to reinvigorate yourself.

And while I know this isn’t the standard fare for SayAnything...perhaps we all need to recharge the batteries every now and again and remember what’s important. Politics may piss us all off to no end (especially with the crap that we have in the primaries), but our lives go on pretty much untouched by the big stuff. And it’s nice to be reminded of all that every now and again.

A lengthy article I wrote about Paul with many footnotes,which has been submitted to IntellectualConservative.com

Here’s the current post of it.

http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-not-paul.html

I’m tired of the Paulistas who assure us that Ron Paul is JesusNorrisAdamWestBatmanHulkHoganMcGuyver… the answer to our every prayer, and have written a detailed essay about his problems.