Showing posts with label Caroline Glick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caroline Glick. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 January 2009

The Lefts Assault on Language Mirrors and Supports the Islamic Assault on Female Genitals.

















Insane Saudi Sheik/Cleric/circus freak interviewed by Leftard hack Paul asshat Auster, rather ironically on the right. [See the second article by Caroline Glick titled the Lefts Assault On Language.]




Dig, I dedicate this post once again to the truly great women who run stophounourkillings, and to the women at the slightly peculiar rawa org, who nonetheless have a vast resource with serious insight into worthy essentials. You know the drill.


In the tedious MSM, Arab religioso head geeks and freaks, are laughably referred to as "top clerics" or "spiritual leaders" either of the Saudi or other wasteland stripe, and they are.

All one apparently needs to qualify for such a drooling moniker, is gross intellectual and emotional retardation, a mindset permanently attuned to the criminal as normal and thus possessing of the required and relentless psychopathology.

Basically, one must be stark raving mad, or you'll fail the interview.

Dig the teeth. He’s borrowing them from his camel. I have a whole hideous gallery of these mutilation pics and this, yes this vile crime and standard cultural practice is one of the least repulsive. Nope, I don’t mean the emotional and mental spastic on the left, who is a major advocate for the mutilation on the right.

Now it’s a well known fact that not a single lip licking advocate of depravity without limits via the genital mutilation of female children, has demanded that someone slice off their wanger with a blunt razor. Though I’d be willing to do a free consultation for any dirty Imam shit Sheik or other faux titled criminal butcher and Islamist psychopath.

"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Pope Benedict, 2006. Groovy link via moonbatcentral.


Why millions of Muslims are inbred, irrational and beyond reach dysfunctionals. Via Yahoo news.

Edited extract: “Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric was quoted on Wednesday as saying it is permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who think they're too young are doing the girls an injustice.

Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, grand mufti, said during a lecture that those who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a "bad path," according to the pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper.

...about parents who force their underage daughters to marry, the mufti said: "We hear a lot about the marriage of underage girls in the media, and we should know that Islamic law has not brought injustice to women."

"For it to be said that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger is wrong," Al Sheikh was quoted as saying.

"A female who is 10 or 12 is marriageable and those who think she's too young are wrong and are being unfair to her." The mufti said a good upbringing will make a girl capable of carrying out her duties as a wife.

"Our mothers and before them our grandmothers married when they were barely 12," said Al Sheikh, according to Al-Hayat.

...it's also not clear whether these unions are on the rise or whether people are hearing about them more now because of the prevalence of media outlets and easy access to the Internet.

Activists say the girls are given away in return for hefty dowries or as a result of long-standing custom in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships”.


"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political Left, is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the Left concentrated in institution's where ideas do not have to work in order to survive". Thomas Sowell.

Colonel Neville: Think unversities, government, activist groups, unions, Hollywood, music and celebrity and so on.


Extract: "Our World: The Left's Assault on Language by Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 3, 2008.

THE LEFT's co-optation of the language of law and democracy is not limited to geopolitics. It extends to issues of cultural politics as well. Take feminism for example. Education Minister Yuli Tamir fancies herself a great champion of women's rights. She has written about feminism and the need for women to have mandated equal representation in both public and private forums.

In all of her work on behalf of women's issues, Tamir has been clear that a society's refusal to mandate full equality for women goes hand in hand with militarism and other violent and anti-liberal tendencies. And yet, in 1996, while a visiting professor at Harvard, Tamir authored an article defending female genital mutilation in the Arab world.

In the Islamic world, girls are forced to undergo clitoridectomies to deprive them of sexual pleasure and so "preserve" their "modesty." Yet Tamir argued in her article, "Hands off Clitoridectomy," published in The Boston Review, it is wrong to oppose the practice because doing so requires a rejection of multiculturalism.

As she put it, opponents of the barbaric practice, "intentionally widen the gap between our culture and those in which clitoridectomy is practiced, thus presenting those other cultures as incommensurable with ours. The effect of this distancing is to disconnect criticism of their practices from criticism of our own, and turn reflection on other cultures into yet another occasion for celebrating our special virtues."

Celebrating Western virtues is a no-no for Tamir, because doing so makes us likely to defend those values at the expense of her leftist appeasement agenda. If the West judges Arab societies that mutilate women and girls objectionable, it is likely to judge appeasing them as objectionable and so reject the political message of Tamir and her comrades. And so, as she sees it, it behoves "feminists" like her to defend clitoridectomies, which she did in that article.

As far as Tamir is concerned, cutting out a girl's genitalia is no different from pulling her teeth. As she put it, "Removing a tooth is also a painful procedure, often imposed on children, and if performed in non-hygienic conditions, it can produce permanent damage." Tamir then went on to say that criticizing female genital mutilation is itself an act of misogyny because by expressing concern for the practice, critics objectify women. They reduce them to mere sexual objects.

So for Tamir the feminist, rejecting the superiority of Western culture - which allows her to freely express her views, vote, run for office, own property and control the fate of her genitals - over Islamic culture - which allows her to do none of these things - is more important than defending women. Indeed, she is willing to empty the rhetoric of women's rights of all intrinsic meaning to advance the interests of her radical leftist ideological platform against its rightist rivals who trenchantly criticize the mutilation of women and girls.

AND, OF course, Tamir is not alone.

In the US presidential race, American feminists have lost all credibility as champions of women's rights in their support for the often pornographic, openly misogynist and unabashedly chauvinist assaults against Governor Sarah Palin. Kim Gandy, the leader of the National Organization for Women, has argued that due to Palin's opposition to abortion, she is not a woman. [Dr Sanity on the how and why of the appalling criminal treatment of Sarah Palin. The groovy Deborah Gyapong picked it up too.]

Ignoring her record of service and achievement in Alaskan politics, leftist commentators and politicians have attacked her clothes, her shoes, her hair, her glasses, her children, her figure. They have insinuated perverted sexual proclivities and they accused her of everything from harlotry to illiteracy.

In an interview with Yediot Aharonot on Friday, the leftist American novelist Paul Auster, [GREAT link via rovianconspiracy on Auster the Leftard pervert and closet rapist] said of Palin, "There is something erotic about Palin that attracts people to her. Someone said that she reminds him of a strict schoolmarm, who wears a stripper's costume under her modest clothing.

I know this might sound funny, but I think that a lot of men are attracted to her and fantasize about being with her in bed. Particularly because she is conservative and far from all these erotic descriptions, the fantasy becomes even more powerful."

Auster then warned that if Palin is elected vice president, "a lot of good values will disappear from this country and we will become an evil, ugly country."

It apparently never occurred to him that his "funny" statements about Palin are the very epitome of ugliness and the absence of values like decency, tolerance and respect for women. And that's the thing of it.

THE ESSENCE of liberal democracy - the edifice on which liberalism and the democratic form of government were built - is reasoned discourse. Reasoned discourse can only take place when words like "values," "democracy," "law," "rights" and "equality" have intrinsic meanings that all members of society accept. When the Left empties these terms of their fundamental meaning and uses them only to enhance its political power at the expense of the Right, reasoned discourse is abandoned in favour of propaganda.

When equal rights are the exclusive privilege of leftist women rather than the natural right of all women, no woman can ever trust that her rights will be preserved. When the rhetoric of law is abused to advance the political power of the Left instead of defending the cause of blind justice, the rule of law is sacrificed in the name of leftist tyranny. When the cause of a nation is ignored in the interest of the fortunes of a faction, the fortunes of that faction will be advanced at the expense of the nation.

Auster told Yediot that the political discourse in the US has become so charged that dialogue is no longer possible between leftists and rightists. In his words, "We have reached a point where the two sides are no longer capable of speaking to one another, and I view this situation as a sort of civil war. There are no weapons or shooting. This is a civil war of ideas and separate ways of thinking, and often a war of ideas is the worst sort of war."

Auster's statement is true, and it applies to the entire Western world. But it is also true that one side bears the brunt of responsibility for the absence of discourse. The side that has destroyed the meaning of democracy, liberalism, feminism and racism to castigate and criminalize its political opponents is responsible for the absence of dialogue. And until the Left is compelled to acknowledge the intrinsic meaning of words rather than use vocabulary as a tool of political warfare, it is hard to see how this situation will improve.
caroline@carolineglick.com


The character Syme discussing Newspeak with Winston Smith, in the George Orwell book 1984 via Hotair.

"It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms.

After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take “good”, for instance.

If you have a word like “good”, what need is there for a word like “bad”? “Ungood” will do just as well — better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of “good”, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like “excellent” and “splendid” and all the rest of them?

“Plusgood” covers the meaning, or “ doubleplusgood” if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already. but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words—in reality, only one word.

...Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year".

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Are we there yet? The Islamic and Marxist Apocalypse Soon.











Mark Steyn, Jonah Goldberg and Bruce Bawer march on in the post journalistic standards wasteland of the MSM, where empirical harsh truth is a Forbidden Zone. "Brigitte Gabriel...now there was a lovely girl" says Steyn wistfully. Amazingly, this proportionately tiny band of real journalists, bloggers, writers and analysts like them, still manage to get through the toxic desert of Left Marxist Liberal lies, domination and censorship.

"I want fifty rounds of ammunition, enough food for a week and Michelle Malkin's coming with me!" Chuck lays it on the line to Doctor Zaius.

"You may not like what you find, Taylor!" Dr Zaius. The not so good Doctor gives advice to Chuck Heston, investigative astronaut.

"I don't like it already, monkeyboy..." Colonel Neville:



Ok hepcats of the Conservative and Libertarian blogosphere. Dig these perfect little pieces by people worth reading. Not a personality disordered Koskid brat, Huffington Pissed hysteric, NYT or CNN ad nauseum professional bore to be seen. So if you're itchin' for some Hitchens, and need some P.J O'Rourke, I got 'em! Ok, so I'm too exhausted to come up with something worth a damn myself.

Dig this wonderful Free Mark Steyn! insightful and cutting run down, on the dumbness of the MSM old media control freaks, as opposed to the alive, free and empirical fun new media, spearheaded by the online hipsters of the largely Conservative and or Libertarian blogosphere thang etc. You know what I mean.

Here's the cool and stark insight on how most Western feminists are totally prepared to jettison and betray their alleged values for er, Islam! Why? Easy. Islam hates the West, George Bush, the Republicans and Conservatives etc, etcetera. Ipso facto feminists cannot concede a single glaring or positive fact to George and the free West, and must therefore be suicidal bedfellow fellaheens with Islamic totalitarians and terrorists. Go figure.

So it's just bad luck for women like those at stophonourkillings com, eh?

"The Left's Assault on Language by Caroline Glick. Nov. 3, 2008 via the Jerusalem Post.

Extract: "THE LEFT's co-optation of the language of law and democracy is not limited to geopolitics. It extends to issues of cultural politics as well. Take feminism for example. Education Minister Yuli Tamir fancies herself a great champion of women's rights. She has written about feminism and the need for women to have mandated equal representation in both public and private forums.

In all of her work on behalf of women's issues, Tamir has been clear that a society's refusal to mandate full equality for women goes hand in hand with militarism and other violent and anti-liberal tendencies. And yet, in 1996, while a visiting professor at Harvard, Tamir authored an article defending female genital mutilation in the Arab world. In the Islamic world, girls are forced to undergo clitoridectomies to deprive them of sexual pleasure and so "preserve" their "modesty."

Yet Tamir argued in her article, "Hands off Clitoridectomy," published in The Boston Review, it is wrong to oppose the practice because doing so requires a rejection of multiculturalism. As she put it, opponents of the barbaric practice, "intentionally widen the gap between our culture and those in which clitoridectomy is practiced, thus presenting those other cultures as incommensurable with ours. The effect of this distancing is to disconnect criticism of their practices from criticism of our own, and turn reflection on other cultures into yet another occasion for celebrating our special virtues."

Celebrating Western virtues is a no-no for Tamir, because doing so makes us likely to defend those values at the expense of her leftist appeasement agenda. If the West judges Arab societies that mutilate women and girls objectionable, it is likely to judge appeasing them as objectionable and so reject the political message of Tamir and her comrades. And so, as she sees it, it behooves "feminists" like her to defend clitoridectomies, which she did in that article". Continue reading...


"Great moments in J school self-detonation by Mark Steyn. "...was no longer possible to avoid the painful truth that, for a profession that congratulates itself incessantly on its courage, bravery, fearlessness, etc (far more than, say, firefighters do) and hands out awards all year long for "speaking truth to power", most journalists are total pussies happy to suck up to state power as long as it's in PC clothing. Professor Miller, a J-school ethics bore boldly campaigning for the right of government bureaucrats to censor writers, would seem to be an almost parodic example of the phenomenon".


Colonel Neville: Mark Steyn on how the MSM would "rather die than actually write".

Unreadability in the defense of liberalism is no vice.

Ed Driscoll writes: "When the MSM moans about the gallons of red ink it's spilled since 2001, it needs to ask itself if it's prepared to actually report the news, in a fashion that interests readers, or if it exists as a non-profit ideological support system".



Colonel Neville: Excellent Christopher er, Peter Hitchens piece on the Obama Marxist Muslim win. Via Eowyn.

"The night we waved goodbye to America.

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.

I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts...

...The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.

Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.

These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts." Continue bleeding...


Colonel Neville: Dig Jonah Goldberg on why demanding the government spends someone else's money, known as Left Liberalism, is a bad idea. But demanding a limited government lets you keep as much of your own money as possible, is an empirically good idea. It's a fact that lower taxes result in a greater economy and hey presto!, an overall higher tax revenue.

Jonah Goldberg on "The Soul Of The GOP: ...this isn't to say that one can't be a moderate on this issue or that and be a Republican. But the idea that social liberalism and economic conservatism can coexist easily is not well supported by the evidence. For example, in Congress and in state legislatures, the more pro-life you are, the more likely you are to be a free-market, low-tax conservative. The more pro-choice you are, the more likely it is that you'll be remarkably generous with other people's money.

One objection is that "economic conservatism" and "fiscal conservatism" are different things. One can be socially liberal and fiscally conservative, in the sense that you're only willing to constrain your statist do-goodery to the extent you're able to pay for it.

This is certainly an intellectually defensible position.

But politically, this is hard ground to defend. It turns out that people who buy into the logic of social liberalism usually find themselves ill-equipped ideologically to say no to spending on causes they care about. They even find it difficult to stay Republicans, as we can see from recent example Colin Powell, who endorsed Barack Obama for president for largely ethereal reasons.

It should be noted that it's also difficult to be fiscally conservative and socially conservative if you've jettisoned the conservative dogma of limited government. We saw this in spades as President Bush embraced "activist government" and ended up wildly increasing government spending over the last eight years." Continue digging gold...


Colonel Neville: Here's David Frum on why electing ACORN fraudster, Marxist and Muslim, [via his Father being a Muslim thus he is a Muslim for life] Barry Hussein as a President, is a very, very bad idea.

David Frum at National Post: "True, Ronald Reagan’s party lost votes in its first mid-year election, 1982. But Reagan’s stringent anti-inflation program imposed short-term pain for long-term gain. In Obama’s program, by contrast, the pain is all long-term.

In the short term, he offers a big increase in government spending, cash rebates, and wider health coverage. That’s short-term gain for long-term pain. It seems unlikely that very much of that long-term pain will have arrived by 2010..." Continue frum here...

Colonel Neville: Mark Steyn on how Daniel Craig is a maverick rebel conservative on screen, and off is a bog standard Leftard Liberal actor.

"...as a final question was asked which of the two candidates would make the better 007:

Craig doesn’t hesitate: "Obama would be the better Bond because, if he’s true to his word—he’d be willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe-to-toe with them. McCain, because of his long service and experience, would probably be a better M,’ he adds, mentioning Bond’s boss, played by Dame Judi Dench. ‘There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain."

Oh, great. John McCain has survived plane crashes, just like Roger Moore in Octopussy. He has escaped death in shipboard infernos, just like Sean Connery in Thunderball. He has endured torture day after day, month after month, without end, just like Pierce Brosnan in the title sequence of Die Another Day. He has done everything 007 has done except get lowered into a shark tank and (as far as we know) bed Britt Ekland and Jill St John.

And yet Daniel Craig gives him the desk job.

On the other hand, Barack Obama has spent his entire adult life chit-chatting with “community organizers” and campus lefties – and he’s the last action hero? It’s true he’s offered “to quite literally look the enemy in the eye” without preconditions.

But, given that he looked the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in the eye for 20 years and failed to notice he was an ugly neo-segregationist race-baiter peddling insane conspiracy theories, and that he looked William Ayers in the eye for almost as long and failed to notice he was an unrepentant terrorist, and that he looked Tony Rezko in the eye for an extremely beneficial real estate deal and failed to notice he was already being mentioned in the Chicago papers for various unsavory activities, I’m not sure Senator Obama is the go-to guy for in-the-field intelligence work". Continue laughing and crying...


Colonel Neville: Now dig this. Professor Israel is almost entirely and precisely correct, except when he says that plenty of Muslims are still gonna be just Jim Dandy if they obey the laws, cos hey don't. I lack that confidence. Hey, blame reality cos they won't.


Friday, November 14, 2008 Netherlands: "Fraud At 86% Of Islamic Schools. From NIS News.

THE HAGUE, 14/11/08 - Nearly nine out of 10 Islamic schools in the Netherlands spend government subsidies unlawfully. The education ministry confirmed yesterday following a report in De Telegraaf that 86 percent of the schools make fraudulent use of money.

De Telegraaf obtained a study by State Secretaries Sharon Dijksma and Marja van Bijsterveldt of Education of the 41 primary schools and two secondary schools that provide Islamic education. At half of the schools, the quality of the education is assessed as weak to very weak. At normal schools, this figure is 11 percent".

Colonel Neville: Yep, it's a real bummer that many Muslims reproduce at around three times or more to the local rate, dig their deliberate self-inflicted ghetto scenes, have profoundly treasonous terrorist sympathies and connections, mostly take THEIR "religion" entirely seriously, blatantly lie and decieve and often import large extended families ad nauseum. But don't worry!

Plenty of cheery Muslims on University Campus's across the West, soon invariably agitate, lie and act like the religious totalitarian bastards that many, many naturally are.

Thus Islamists buy and set up phony chairs and departments with Saudi money all to promote Islamist Taquiyaa deceptions, control freakery and their rabid Jew and Christian hatred. I've not been able to find a single Muslim academic and their affiliated groups with their ugly Orwellian misnomers here or anywhere, that ain't pro-Islamist, pro-Palestinian Jew hating anti-Israel shitbag frauds and very close pals of Marxist Leftard shitbag frauds.

Have you? Well, cos they can be nothing else...Where are the er, Muslim good guys hiding? Sure, there's a negative side too.

With jolly old fun loving and laugh a minute Islam, it's all about NUMBERS and PERCENTAGES regards the absolute predictability of Muslim behaviour. Dig the previous link for the horror of the mark of the %.

"Limit Muslim [im]migration, Australia warned. Via The Sydney Morning Herald.

LIFE can become untenable when the Muslim population of a non-Muslim country reaches about 10 per cent, as shown by France, a Jewish expert on Islam says.

The Australian Jewish News yesterday quoted Raphael Israeli as saying Australia should cap Muslim immigration or risk being swamped by Indonesians.

Professor Israeli told the Herald that was a misunderstanding. But he said: "When the Muslim population gets to a critical mass you have problems. That is a general rule, so if it applies everywhere it applies in Australia."

Colonel Neville: Continue reading for the as per usual Islamist Taquiyaa response from chronic mediocrity Keysar Trad and his phony named Islamic Friendship Association of Australia...and all that jazz. And dig the dhimmi bullshit response at the end by one Colin Rubenstein, of the suicidal and largely idiotic AIJAC, [Australian Israeli Jewish Affais COuncil.]

Hey, peruse the startling, disturbing and pathetic details of the Kingdom Of Saud, THE premier primate cage in Gods Monkey House AKA the Middle-East.

Now here's a charming report on how seamlessly a Left Marxist indoctrinated government school system fits with forcing a PC view of Islam onto our children. And dig also, how the US education system is infected with anti-Christianity and blatant pro-Islam Marxism. No, really. Via Blessedview.

Still, it's a larf, innit?