If she had been born in a Muslim country, she might have been married off by the time she was 15 (or less), stuck inside, been forbidden to read, write or use any means of communication, the list goes on and on and on.... and the overall result is a form of slavery that is the antithesis of the mutual support, respect and partnership that makes up what Christians and many other religions and cultures consider to be a healthy marriage.
For anyone, anyone in the world, to insinuate in any way that Islam treats women better than Christians is so utterly bizarre as to virtually demand an immediate response. If he actually believes this, there is only one conclusion that can be drawn, and this is he is a Muslim. Just as many have suspected, just as many have warned.
There can be no other explanation. A true Christian — as Obama claims he is — would never say such a thing. Not an honest one who has seen, heard, read, the reality of the plight of Muslim women at home and abroad. So that’s out.
On the Liberal side, they have always pretended not to see the abuse of women, and concentrate instead on praising the Anti-western culture aspects of the Muslims. But that only goes so far, so this kind of talk is verboten in that arena as well. Since equal rights for all is the most fundamental principle they claim to have, its hard to believe a genuine Leftist would stray that far off the reservation.
So what’s left?
I do believe he just mousetrapped himself.
Great points.
The perils of designer tribalism -- Third Worldism - ".....Whatever the current object of adulation— the wisdom of the East, tribal Africa, Aboriginal Australia, pre-Columbian America —the message is the same: the absolute superiority of Otherness. The Third Worldist looks to the orient, to the tribal, to the primitive not for what they really are but for their evocative distance from the reality of modern European society and values.
It is all part of what Bruckner calls “the enchanting music of departure.” Its siren call is seductive but also supremely mendacious. Indeed, the messy reality of the primitive world—its squalor and poverty, its penchant for cannibalism, slavery, gratuitous cruelty, and superstition—are carefully edited out of the picture. In their place we find a species of Rousseauvian sentimentality. Rousseau is the patron saint of Third Worldism. “Ignoring the real human race entirely,” Rousseau wrote in a passage Bruckner quotes from the Confessions, “I imagined perfect beings, with heavenly virtue and beauty, so sure in their friendship, so tender and faithful, that I could never find anyone like them in the real world.” The beings with whom Rousseau populated his fantasy life are exported to exotic lands by the Third Worldist. As Rousseau discovered, the unreality of the scenario, far from being an impediment to moral smugness, was an invaluable asset. Reality, after all, has a way of impinging upon fantasy, clipping its wings, limiting its exuberance. So much the worse, then, for reality. As Bruckner notes, in this romance adepts “were not looking for a real world but the negation of their own. . . . An eternal vision is projected on these nations that has nothing to do with their real history.”.....