First They Came For the Jews: The Story of Yet Another World War--I have seen so many lies and half-truths by Western mainstream media exposed in the blogosphere, especially related to Islam, that I no longer trust them for information. Leading bloggers such as Charles Johnson of
Little Green Footballs recently demonstrated this by showing how photos distributed by international news service Reuters from Lebanon had been grossly manipulated to make Israel look bad.
Blogger Zombie argued, in a very convincing way, that the story about Israel deliberately targeting ambulances in Lebanon was full of holes, quite possibly a complete fabrication. It proves how easily, willingly, many Western journalists believe every piece of nonsense Muslims feed them, as long as it's directed against Israel, the United States or the West in general.
Status Of Feminists
Memo to Jennifer Ditchburn of via Macleans: I'd like to draw your attention to something -
Several pro-Conservative Internet blogs have signed onto a campaign to eliminate Status of Women Canada, a Trudeau-era federal agency that promotes women's equality and advancement. The campaign was kickstarted by REAL Women of Canada, one of Canada's most vocal organizations of social conservatives. It has long urged the federal government to axe Status of Women - but this time its message is being widely discussed and supported among some in the Conservative Internet community.
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But fears that the campaign might find favour within a caucus that includes many social conservatives have taken root in some quarters.
Halifax communications consultant and blogger Audra Williams has mounted her own counter-offensive, urging readers to write to their MP in support of Status of Women Canada.
"This actually turns my blood to ice," Williams wrote last week. "I am calling my MP right now. I mean, I know she's on board, but still I am calling her."
It isn't just "social conservatives" who want the "Harper government to axe Status of Women Canada" and marginalizing their critics in such a manner is disingenuous - at best. Had you bothered to report on
who and
what SOW spends our taxdollars on, those fearful squeals from feminists might have been placed in the appropriate context.
This quote from Monica Lysack of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada is particularly ridiculous:
"When you look at women in Canada and their human rights compared to international standards, we have a long way to go."
What complete and utter bullshit. Modern organized feminism has nothing to do with human rights for women, and everything to do with pushing the agenda of the left - the word "Women" in Status Of Women reduced to a device to ensure continued government funding.
If this were not the case, if SOW genuinely functioned as a voice on "womens issues" in Canada, the organization would maintain official political neutrality on issues like abortion and child care. There would have been no us-vs-them content in the Ditchburn article, because the "social conservatives" she refers to would be playing a meaningful role in policy development within the organization.
Pamela Bone, in the Australian, illustrates how (like the word "progressive") the word "women" has been quietly appropriated as yet another euphanism for "the hard left";
IN Tehran in June, several thousand people held a peaceful demonstration calling for legal changes that would give a woman's testimony in court equal value to a man's. The demonstrators, most of them women, were attacked with tear gas and beaten with batons by men and women from Iran's State Security Forces, according to Amnesty International. Iranian women may not travel without their husband's permission but they are allowed to wield a truncheon against other women.
Do you think women in Western countries marched in solidarity with the Iranian women demonstrators? Of course not. Do you think there are posters and graffiti at universities condemning the Iranian President? Of course not. You know, without needing to go there, that any graffiti at universities will be condemning George W. Bush, not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (I concede Bush is easier to spell.)
You know, before you get there, that at the Melbourne Writers Festival starting this weekend the principal hate figures are going to be Bush and John Howard. You know there will be many sympathetic references to David Hicks but probably none to Ashraf Kolhari, an Iranian mother of four who has been in jail for five years for allegedly having sex outside marriage and, until last week, who was under sentence of death by stoning.
Thank goddess, as they used to say: a few Western feminists have begun to wonder why women who once marched for women's rights are marching alongside people who would take away even the most basic of those rights.
The latest is Sarah Baxter, a former Greenham Common protester, who in Britain's The Sunday Times had this to say about a recent demonstration in London calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon: "Women pushing their children in buggies bearing the familiar symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marched alongside banners proclaiming 'We are all Hezbollah now', and Muslim extremists chanting, 'Oh Jew, the army of Mohammed will return'.
"I could never have imagined that many of the same crowd I hung out with then would today be standing shoulder to shoulder with militantly anti-feminist Islamic fundamentalist groups whose views on women make Western patriarchy look like a Greenham peace picnic."
A little late to the game, Ms. Baxter is.
More reaction...
Posted by Kate at
09:43 AM |
Comments (53) Keep up the good work Kate! and Suzanne too...
This is nothing more than nest building by a bunch of well paid socialists that are on the government teat. GET RID of SOW. This is an important issue. It's actually about accountability of the use of the taxpayer's money. It has nothing to do with the CPC government, with 'conservativism', or even with political ideology.
The status of women in Canada compared to international standards
I'm a man, so what do I know? But I know how to research. So when someone makes a factual statement on why women in this country need a government department to help them, I figure I should be able to find some data to support that assertion.
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