Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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HamNation: Liberating Halloween, Hilali-Style
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
12:18 PM
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For background on the Hilali statement, Hot Air had the original story. Outcry in Australia has been pretty impressive-- some from John Howard and some from the country's biggest Islamic organization, which called on him to resign. Allah has more reactions, and a "baby, you know I love you" from Hilali.
No outcry, as I noted, from the NOW or Ms. Magazine and its three blogs.
Instead, from NOW:
Who can forget voter suppression tactics in Florida in the presidential election of 2000? And then repeated in Ohio in 2004? Both states were pivotal to George W. Bush's election and re-election.
Perspective.
Ms. had nothing on Hilali, but did note a new India law on domestic violence, so clearly they're following world events. Why not this one?
Here's the Yvonne Ridley piece I mentioned: How I Learned to Love the Veil
And, Darleen Click's wonderful response to her:
Well, Ms. Yvonne, please list the Islamist countries where these Islamo-feminist women exist. Iran? Where they dangle sixteen year old girls by the neck for the crime of being a rape victim? Where "moral police" can accost and beat girls and women on the streets for showing a lock of hair or wearing fingernail polish?
Sweetheart, that's your Sharia. Islamic law uncontaminated by evil Western rule of law. Own it. Own it all. Including your "laughing" in derision about Vida Samadzai while remaining silent about the death threats she has received from your "feminist" co-religionists.
I will own the warts of excessiveness of Western Civilization because the cost/benefit sheet comes down positively in the benefit column, regardless of the silliness of Paris Hilton.
I notice you live in England, not Iran, and enjoy the freedoms of Western society while embracing a religion that tolerates a radical element that would erase your rights as a human being if it were successful in its stated goal of world dominance.
More of the lovely Wafa Sultan and Brigitte Gabriel. Enjoy them both, and have a great Halloween wearing whatever you want, since you have the glorious freedom to be modest or not!
Update: Watch Vent today. Some would call it "fearmongering," except that these people are for real, and you for real don't want them in charge.
Update: Check out producer Justin Germany's other great work, here. He's awesome. My actual Halloween costume below-the-fold, by the way, because I'm really proud of it. Next to me is my friend Emily Dunham, who beat me in the costume contest with her hand-painted Blackberry. Grrrr.
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LoL...
The bit with you pointing at the Dem campaign photo with a big "L" on your forehead...
That is too funny.
Your video today, effectively pointing at the hypocricy of feminists (with a big allegorical "L" on your forehead)...
It would be funny, if it wasn't so terribly true.
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Why Miss Ham, get better with each show, not just in your delivery, but the subject matter. This is, to me, the issue that should be driving most people.
The way women are treated in the primative cultures is just criminal, and it is time that all free people stand up and demand it stop NOW. The Burka is just one part of it.
If you don't think that the Austrailian Imam Hilali was describing the general accepted attitude that these men have towards women (Essentailly, if they aren't in a burka, who can blame a man who is driven to rape them? Exposed meat to a cat.) then you aren't paying any attention at all. Women in Isalam are held accountable for being RAPED! How is it necessary to say any more?
Stand up, free people of the world, and demand this opression end. It makes South African Apartheid seem tame. After so many generations of it, finally our president is taking action. Women in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and soon, hopefully, all over the middle east, will get some fresh free air. And be able to walk down the street without a pup tent hanging from theri hat to keep the horny uncontrolled males away.
Thank you especially for the Wafa Sultan's clip, she has a powerful message. Too bad we have not seen her far more on the MSM. Maybe then more people would understand what the stakes are.
If Americans don't think that kind of cruel opression can come here, well, we all better start reading about what is going on in Europe as we speak. |
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PLEASE READ
something about the "kerry was obviously referring to bush" spin which needs to be slapped down hard is the "obviously" part.
progressives have been doing battle with the institution of an all-volunteer military since mid 2003, branding it early on as a "poverty draft".
the battle became formalized and physical with the so-called "counter-recruiting" movement and tactics developed by the afsc. this gave members of the media and pundits a means to newsify their agenda against our armed forces. when counter-recruiters were active, any seasonal dip in recruiting numbers were eagerly promoted through alarmist news items.
but two years of examination disproved the assertion that counter-recruiters presented any real effect on recruiting numbers. the media elites' explaination for this phenomenon has been to reaffirrm their base conciet that the only type of person capable of military duty is stupid by issuing news items asserting that the military has lowered its recruiting standards.
a google search of "lowered" "recruiting" "standards" results in thousands of hits from both the mainstream and leftwing activist media:
http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/ (uses the term "dumbing down" to describe new recruits)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15197832/
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1004-01.htm
etc.
other terms may be as effective. the point is that the leftwing conciet that military servicemembers are charictarized by intellectual inferiority, and that it is the noble concern of decent people that the military is the leading predator of our nation's stupid, is one which is profligate and comfortably shared amongst the left.
in stark contradiction of the notion that kerry "obviously" could not have meant the troops, it is in fact unlikely that he intended to convey otherwise. his message was not meant to his thinking with wanton malice. rather his intention was to spur his audience to moral action - to strengthen education as an alternative to the predatory appeals of military service.
of course, a shorter route to disproving kerry's spin is to try to parse bush into kerry's statement:
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you [may become a president who get's our country] stuck in Iraq."
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makes tom petty look bad (or, to be precise, even worse).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorG9TpPFHc
come to think of it, i'd love to see you sing that song for kerry.
oh, and as long as you're dressing up, what happened to that get-up of tacky creamsicleness from the team that must not be named? |
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what can you say? Thanks for a great post. |
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The burqua bedsheet goes great with the pink hat! |
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Quote: You were right to forego the fishnets
Dang you Kraut. MK in fishnets is the only reason I come here....;-) |
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Hey MK,
These vidcasts are super! No wonder you're getting all these calls for TV :) |
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You were not at all like uncovered meat.
Another great HamNation. |
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I have to take issue with your suggestion that women dress up as 'sexy' this or 'sexy' that. In America, the most common costumes are 'naughty' this or 'naughty' that. That's what my daughter told me at least.
On another note, when the NOW spokeswoman asks:
"What is more liberating? Being judged on the length of your skirt and the size of your enhanced breasts, or being judged on your character and intelligence?"
She forgot to ask: "Or being judged by how many beatings it takes for you to learn the lesson your husband is teaching you?" I would have thought that would be an important question for a feminist.
Live and learn. |
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and most eloquently I think..
Well, well, well.
Funny you should use that analogy there, Sheik. You see, just the other evening, I left my pastrami and swiss on rye uncovered for a moment when I went to the fridge for a beer, and the cat tried to snatch it.
The cat got a combat boot in the ribs for its attempt.
Look, Sheik, I don't care if "The Meat" is walking down the street stark nekkid' in broad daylight: "No" means "Keep your mitts to yourself or I'll shoot you between the running lights."
Are we clear?
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2006/10/uncovered-meat.html
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You were right to forego the fishnets in favor of a more tollerant coustume. It made my heart race with desire. |
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The content of this episode is fascinating; comparing the uncovered meat metaphor to two women who escaped that mindset is a fantastic contrast...however, I was so mesmerized by the moonwalking (took me a double take to realize what you were doing) I had to watch twice to get my attention focused...MK, you rock. |
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MK - don't forget everyone here's personal favorite- the sexy political commentator costume.
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It's amazing that Hilali chose to compare women to meat and men to (tom) cats. All he is saying is that muslim men have no self control or respect for women other than they are pieces of meat.
Yvonne Ridley obviously hasn't spent much time as a woman in the middle east. I don't think the terms intelligence, empowerment or respect and women are ever in the same thought. If being treated as a third class person empowers her, more power to her. |
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