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This film will examine the negative impact that the misinterpretation of Islam has created for some of its women by ... all » looking at Muslim women's lives in two different countries -- Afghanistan and Pakistan. The central thesis of the film is that Islam has been politicized and misinterpreted to suit the ends of certain fundamentalist factions within the larger religious group. This misinterpretation resulted in the tragedy of 9/11. It has also resulted in extremely barbaric behavior towards women in some Muslim countries, where political upheavals have drastically and negatively impacted the status of its women.

I've been in a little of a kerfuffle with Nubian of BlackAcademic. I honestly get a knee-jerk reaction when I read or listen to people using racism to reduce every single negative aspect of American politics and culture. The knee-jerk reaction gets bigger when it comes from scholars and academics because it raises up a lot of issues I had with the part of US universities that fosters what I believe is a rhetorical posing that passes for a empirical analysis.

The problem though is that, not only are my biases strong but my articulation of them is weak, short-tempered, and unfocused. Which is why I haven't been too successful in engaging in a discussion about why reducing everything to racism is counterproductive to those trying to overcome racism in the first place.

I guess I am more into the grayish nuances of capitalist exploitation, the one's that can better explain why a Condoleeza Rice is Secretary of State or why there the genocidal war that rages across central Africa is all about slavery, human trading as capital, and not about race.

Yet ... and yet ... this image raises its ugly head at Feministing via Tennessee Guerilla Women: The Red Burka for A Red America

Get your Red Burka T-Shirt here, and tell the world what you think about the relentless, never-ending, Republican-led and State-financed War on Women.

I plan to wear a Red Burka Shirt when I go downtown to watch my elected representatives vote on whether or not women should be returned to the 19th century when the male-dominated state had the unmitigated audacity to rob women of their personhood.

I can't even begin to describe how culturally insensitive and narrow-minded this little campaign is.

I've been in a little of a kerfuffle with Nubian of BlackAcademic. I honestly get a knee-jerk reaction when I read or listen to people using racism to reduce every single negative aspect of American politics and culture. The knee-jerk reaction gets bigger when it comes from scholars and academics because it raises up a lot of issues I had with the part of US universities that fosters what I believe is a rhetorical posing that passes for a empirical analysis.

The problem though is that, not only are my biases strong but my articulation of them is weak, short-tempered, and unfocused. Which is why I haven't been too successful in engaging in a discussion about why reducing everything to racism is counterproductive to those trying to overcome racism in the first place.

I guess I am more into the grayish nuances of capitalist exploitation, the one's that can better explain why a Condoleeza Rice is Secretary of State or why there the genocidal war that rages across central Africa is all about slavery, human trading as capital, and not about race.

Yet ... and yet ... this image raises its ugly head at Feministing via Tennessee Guerilla Women: The Red Burka for A Red America

Get your Red Burka T-Shirt here, and tell the world what you think about the relentless, never-ending, Republican-led and State-financed War on Women.

I plan to wear a Red Burka Shirt when I go downtown to watch my elected representatives vote on whether or not women should be returned to the 19th century when the male-dominated state had the unmitigated audacity to rob women of their personhood.

I can't even begin to describe how culturally insensitive and narrow-minded this little campaign is.

March 8 is International Women's Day, and the Leader of the Free World has declared an end to sexual exploitation of women, free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, it's a miracle. And if he can't change the whole world by executive order, today he's at least making a stern example of those South Dakota sex traffickers and exploiters of women and young girls?

Off to tell my teen-aged daughter the great news that it's morning in America and starting today, she'll be judged on the content of her character, not her uterus. . .

From the festive Voice of America holiday story:

"America will help women stand up for their freedom no matter where they live."

The president says his administration is working with other nations to end sexual exploitation and the human trafficking of women and young girls . . .

March 8 is International Women's Day, and the Leader of the Free World has declared an end to sexual exploitation of women, free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, it's a miracle. And if he can't change the whole world by executive order, today he's at least making a stern example of those South Dakota sex traffickers and exploiters of women and young girls?

Off to tell my teen-aged daughter the great news that it's morning in America and starting today, she'll be judged on the content of her character, not her uterus. . .

From the festive Voice of America holiday story:

"America will help women stand up for their freedom no matter where they live."

The president says his administration is working with other nations to end sexual exploitation and the human trafficking of women and young girls . . .

This is one of those "I have a bone to pick with" Planned Parenthood. How could they get away for so long with the claim that Operation Rescue's terrorist attacks on abortion clinics was akin to racketeering just has me a loss for words. They certainly not one and the same. At all.

[via Supreme Court Backs Abortion Protesters in Unanimous Ruling - New York Times]:

The ruling today marked the third time the justices have addressed the long-running dispute over how federal law applies to blockades of abortion clinics. The Hobbs Act, enacted in 1946 to supersede a 1934 anti-racketeering statute, specifically outlaws the obstruction of commerce "by robbery or extortion."

Two violations of the Hobbs Act, in turn, can demonstrate a "pattern of racketeering activity" that entitles victims to triple damages under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.

In the 1980's, the National Organization for Women and two abortion clinics sued Operation Rescue and the Pro-Life Action League under the Hobbs Act. In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that abortion clinics could use that statute, but that they had to prove in court that the actions of protesters were part of a "pattern of racketeering activity."

This is one of those "I have a bone to pick with" Planned Parenthood. How could they get away for so long with the claim that Operation Rescue's terrorist attacks on abortion clinics was akin to racketeering just has me a loss for words. They certainly not one and the same. At all.

[via Supreme Court Backs Abortion Protesters in Unanimous Ruling - New York Times]:

The ruling today marked the third time the justices have addressed the long-running dispute over how federal law applies to blockades of abortion clinics. The Hobbs Act, enacted in 1946 to supersede a 1934 anti-racketeering statute, specifically outlaws the obstruction of commerce "by robbery or extortion."

Two violations of the Hobbs Act, in turn, can demonstrate a "pattern of racketeering activity" that entitles victims to triple damages under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.

In the 1980's, the National Organization for Women and two abortion clinics sued Operation Rescue and the Pro-Life Action League under the Hobbs Act. In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that abortion clinics could use that statute, but that they had to prove in court that the actions of protesters were part of a "pattern of racketeering activity."

This is one of those "I have a bone to pick with" Planned Parenthood. How could they get away for so long with the claim that Operation Rescue's terrorist attacks on abortion clinics was akin to racketeering just has me a loss for words. They certainly not one and the same. At all.

[via Supreme Court Backs Abortion Protesters in Unanimous Ruling - New York Times]:

The ruling today marked the third time the justices have addressed the long-running dispute over how federal law applies to blockades of abortion clinics. The Hobbs Act, enacted in 1946 to supersede a 1934 anti-racketeering statute, specifically outlaws the obstruction of commerce "by robbery or extortion."

Two violations of the Hobbs Act, in turn, can demonstrate a "pattern of racketeering activity" that entitles victims to triple damages under the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.

In the 1980's, the National Organization for Women and two abortion clinics sued Operation Rescue and the Pro-Life Action League under the Hobbs Act. In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that abortion clinics could use that statute, but that they had to prove in court that the actions of protesters were part of a "pattern of racketeering activity."

I bring your attention to this coprolite devoid of judicial, legal and philosophical reason :

[via Catholic Online]:

I end by using the expression, "Free State" with great intentionality. At another critical time in our Nations history another evil was once "sanctioned" by the Supreme Court, the "owning" of human beings as property. The Court was wrong then it is wrong now. For a while, some States were "Free States" and some were "Slave States." After Roe is overturned, that will probably occur once again. Our work will not be over with the coming demise of Roe v. Wade, it only begins. Our goal is not simply to expose and oppose the current anti-culture of death; it is to build a new culture of life, and a civilization of love to replace it.

GoogleNews and Yahoo!News have decided that no feminist blogs will be rotated as part of their sources covering abortion and reproductive rights while fascist Catholic crap like this gets promoted by them as newsworthy. Which is why, all I get on my GoogleNews alerts are anti-choice, dominionist "news sources" on the topic of abotion like Catholic.org. And all I get to read ... oh, yipee ... is stupidity like the one quoted here.

I bring your attention to this coprolite devoid of judicial, legal and philosophical reason :

[via Catholic Online]:

I end by using the expression, "Free State" with great intentionality. At another critical time in our Nations history another evil was once "sanctioned" by the Supreme Court, the "owning" of human beings as property. The Court was wrong then it is wrong now. For a while, some States were "Free States" and some were "Slave States." After Roe is overturned, that will probably occur once again. Our work will not be over with the coming demise of Roe v. Wade, it only begins. Our goal is not simply to expose and oppose the current anti-culture of death; it is to build a new culture of life, and a civilization of love to replace it.

GoogleNews and Yahoo!News have decided that no feminist blogs will be rotated as part of their sources covering abortion and reproductive rights while fascist Catholic crap like this gets promoted by them as newsworthy. Which is why, all I get on my GoogleNews alerts are anti-choice, dominionist "news sources" on the topic of abotion like Catholic.org. And all I get to read ... oh, yipee ... is stupidity like the one quoted here.