Amazing piece. Thank you for thinking this through and sharing. There is no common sense explanation for what is happening in the world right now. The response to the October massacre has thrown everything I thought I believed in, into a blender and destroyed it.
I have always been left leaning, supporting hope and change for women and those who seem to struggle through life. Now these movements are tainted and poisoned and I am backing towards the centre and even right! It is like a well intentioned movement of compassion has morphed into a mindless monster and bizarrely set its sights on Jews and Israel!!!
The so called silent majority isn’t silent. We’ve said things but get labeled, ignored, cancelled, or told that the center is wishy washy “if you don’t stand for something (like we don’t stand for something- ignored!) then you don’t stand for anything.” In other words “pick a side.” Then they wait for you to pick a side by either being cowed/agreeing with them, or if you still disagree, then they “other” you. Unfortunately this happens at both extremes (far left and far right) and obfuscates any truth. I don’t believe there is any true mental health issue going on, other than cognitive dissonance and “man’s inhumanity to man.” I think the silent majority is fed up and uncertain what to do exactly. I think we need to start a new political movement. We The People need to re-establish certain principles and common sense. Just my 2 cents.
True but we are just starting to see that silent majority truly rising up in the UK and Europe. Elder ladies and men and are being arrested for just being present They will pay a price but I am watching closely to see if they also bring about change...
I am afraid compared to the left any support of Israel and more thought into gender issues seems like a whisper. I don't see the right joining pro Israeli marches or calling on their political leaders to make change in nearly the noise and numbers of the left! But I think the tide is turning for example in London on July 27!
Remember, protesting isn’t quite a part of our democratic processes (officially.) We have become so immersed in the iconography of the ‘60’s rhetoric and tactics that we seem to have forgotten that the protest du jour isn’t really what we are supposed to do (even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr used peaceful protests as a last desperate attempt to get justice.) we are supposed to write and call our representatives, go to our statehouses and make appointments to talk to our representatives in person (preferably in groups or as representatives of groups of like-minded constituents.) Think through your talking points and have them written in an initial email or letter you send in advance making your position know and requesting an appointment to meet in person. (Also track any bills online- both state and federal.) Make sure you wear your “Sunday best” clothes, as they used to be called. Suit and tie (yes!) for men, polish your shoes, get a handkerchief and put it in your coat top pocket. Make sure you are clean - including under fingernails- smell nice (bring breath mints anyway) hair clean and neat. Ladies wear business dress wear- dress, skirt & blouse (NOT low cut, thin, tight or revealing) or pants suit set (🤪🥴 Nothing tight here either). Jacket for ladies is optional. Accessorize minimally but tastefully. Yes all of this counts. Have a digital or paper business card to leave behind as well as any additional leave behind paper with additional details and information about the talking points. A sort of summary paper- one sheet. For each representative you scheduled to visit and several extras just in case you run into anyone who wants one. We used to do this on bills at our statehouse all the time. Get to know your representatives. I know all of this sounds tedious, but if I could do it 23 years ago while carrying my then less than one year old baby around with me and quietly finding an unobtrusive place to nurse him under a blanket over my shoulder because he wouldn’t take a bottle and we didn’t have a babysitter last minute (and they had just outlawed public breastfeeding in a bill the day before) then you can figure out how to do this and find the time even with a job and busy lives. It’s good skill development and practice anyway. Start putting out contacts to family, friends, neighbors interested in helping and good with you. I cannot stress enough that we all need to participate in our democracy, and that actually means a whole lot more than just voting and/or protesting. I wish I had a Rosie the riveter graphic right now. 🥴😆
This has been my experience with some of my friends. I am mainly cowed into submission because of my 'anti-palestinian racism' and using a 'white moderate defence'. I am shouted down for criticizing any of the protests and told they I don't care about the genocide that is happening.
Maybe, but given our choices (and the fact that polls originally showed a majority of people did NOT want a rematch between Biden and Trump) and considering how BOTH parties have become more ideologically and behaviorally extreme since the 1990’s when our “common enemy” the Soviets fell and the internet started, I doubt it unless a truly centrist “middle way” political movement starts at the grassroots level up. 🤷♀️🤦♀️🤷♀️ Still I have hope.
I think things might be turning as Jamaal Bowman got the boot, Cori Bush might be ousted and plenty of people are awakening to the extremism of the far left.
Sexualized violence is endemic to Palestinian society and to the wider Muslim Arab world. Their intense rejection of the Zionist entity, namely Israel, is as extreme as it is because Palestinian ideology has for some time now reached down into the pores of sexual desirer and fused with it. Years ago an Egyptian journalist had no compunctions about detailing his wet dream of being Sharon's bodyguard on a visit to Egypt and not being able to refrain from killing him to avenge his submission to Islam. The tremendous demands placed on Muslim men to defend honour and conquer the infidels leads them into a fusion of sex and violence, often taken out on their wives, who in turn get their revenge by sacrificing their first born sons to Allah as suicide bombers. Once political ideology fuses with sexual desire, the society is literally fucked. If you doubt me, take another look at Visconti's film The Damned. Or watch Fauda to see the fusion unfold in real life drama. Which has a strange boomerang effect on western idiots chanting pro-Palestinian propaganda and denying the sexual violence of October 7. I suggest the effect is to desexualize their own sexuality and sublimate it in slogans that do no harm but enable them afterwards to go to Starbuck in keffiyehs. Little wonder that the birth rate of western society is declining everywhere. Who needs sex when you can have encampments?
• Girls' clitoris should be cut (Muhammad's words, Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251). • Girls can be sodomized until and vaginally raped after 8 years of age (see Islam & Sex). • A woman or girl who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s). • Testimonies of 4 male witnesses are required to prove rape of a female (Quran 24:13). • A woman or girl who alleges rape without producing 4 male witnesses is guilty of adultery. • A woman or girl found guilty of adultery is punishable by death • A male convicted of rape can have his conviction dismissed by marrying his victim. • Muslim men have sexual rights to any woman/girl not wearing the Hijab (see Taharrush). • A woman can have 1 husband, who can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more. • A man can beat his wife for insubordination (see Quran 4:34 and Religion of Peace). • A man can unilaterally divorce his wife; a wife needs her husband's consent to divorce. • A divorced wife loses custody of all children over 6 years of age or when they exceed it. • A woman's testimony in court, allowed in property cases, carries ½ the weight of a man's. • A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits (see Mathematics in Quran). • A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
Amazing piece. Thank you for thinking this through and sharing. There is no common sense explanation for what is happening in the world right now. The response to the October massacre has thrown everything I thought I believed in, into a blender and destroyed it.
I have always been left leaning, supporting hope and change for women and those who seem to struggle through life. Now these movements are tainted and poisoned and I am backing towards the centre and even right! It is like a well intentioned movement of compassion has morphed into a mindless monster and bizarrely set its sights on Jews and Israel!!!
The silent majority needs to start shouting...
The so called silent majority isn’t silent. We’ve said things but get labeled, ignored, cancelled, or told that the center is wishy washy “if you don’t stand for something (like we don’t stand for something- ignored!) then you don’t stand for anything.” In other words “pick a side.” Then they wait for you to pick a side by either being cowed/agreeing with them, or if you still disagree, then they “other” you. Unfortunately this happens at both extremes (far left and far right) and obfuscates any truth. I don’t believe there is any true mental health issue going on, other than cognitive dissonance and “man’s inhumanity to man.” I think the silent majority is fed up and uncertain what to do exactly. I think we need to start a new political movement. We The People need to re-establish certain principles and common sense. Just my 2 cents.
True but we are just starting to see that silent majority truly rising up in the UK and Europe. Elder ladies and men and are being arrested for just being present They will pay a price but I am watching closely to see if they also bring about change...
I am afraid compared to the left any support of Israel and more thought into gender issues seems like a whisper. I don't see the right joining pro Israeli marches or calling on their political leaders to make change in nearly the noise and numbers of the left! But I think the tide is turning for example in London on July 27!
Remember, protesting isn’t quite a part of our democratic processes (officially.) We have become so immersed in the iconography of the ‘60’s rhetoric and tactics that we seem to have forgotten that the protest du jour isn’t really what we are supposed to do (even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr used peaceful protests as a last desperate attempt to get justice.) we are supposed to write and call our representatives, go to our statehouses and make appointments to talk to our representatives in person (preferably in groups or as representatives of groups of like-minded constituents.) Think through your talking points and have them written in an initial email or letter you send in advance making your position know and requesting an appointment to meet in person. (Also track any bills online- both state and federal.) Make sure you wear your “Sunday best” clothes, as they used to be called. Suit and tie (yes!) for men, polish your shoes, get a handkerchief and put it in your coat top pocket. Make sure you are clean - including under fingernails- smell nice (bring breath mints anyway) hair clean and neat. Ladies wear business dress wear- dress, skirt & blouse (NOT low cut, thin, tight or revealing) or pants suit set (🤪🥴 Nothing tight here either). Jacket for ladies is optional. Accessorize minimally but tastefully. Yes all of this counts. Have a digital or paper business card to leave behind as well as any additional leave behind paper with additional details and information about the talking points. A sort of summary paper- one sheet. For each representative you scheduled to visit and several extras just in case you run into anyone who wants one. We used to do this on bills at our statehouse all the time. Get to know your representatives. I know all of this sounds tedious, but if I could do it 23 years ago while carrying my then less than one year old baby around with me and quietly finding an unobtrusive place to nurse him under a blanket over my shoulder because he wouldn’t take a bottle and we didn’t have a babysitter last minute (and they had just outlawed public breastfeeding in a bill the day before) then you can figure out how to do this and find the time even with a job and busy lives. It’s good skill development and practice anyway. Start putting out contacts to family, friends, neighbors interested in helping and good with you. I cannot stress enough that we all need to participate in our democracy, and that actually means a whole lot more than just voting and/or protesting. I wish I had a Rosie the riveter graphic right now. 🥴😆
This has been my experience with some of my friends. I am mainly cowed into submission because of my 'anti-palestinian racism' and using a 'white moderate defence'. I am shouted down for criticizing any of the protests and told they I don't care about the genocide that is happening.
Maybe, but given our choices (and the fact that polls originally showed a majority of people did NOT want a rematch between Biden and Trump) and considering how BOTH parties have become more ideologically and behaviorally extreme since the 1990’s when our “common enemy” the Soviets fell and the internet started, I doubt it unless a truly centrist “middle way” political movement starts at the grassroots level up. 🤷♀️🤦♀️🤷♀️ Still I have hope.
Got any secrets to share about the hope thing?
No special secret; “when you’ve come to the end of your rope, make a knot and hang on!” 😂🥴🤷♀️👍🍀
I think things might be turning as Jamaal Bowman got the boot, Cori Bush might be ousted and plenty of people are awakening to the extremism of the far left.
Sexualized violence is endemic to Palestinian society and to the wider Muslim Arab world. Their intense rejection of the Zionist entity, namely Israel, is as extreme as it is because Palestinian ideology has for some time now reached down into the pores of sexual desirer and fused with it. Years ago an Egyptian journalist had no compunctions about detailing his wet dream of being Sharon's bodyguard on a visit to Egypt and not being able to refrain from killing him to avenge his submission to Islam. The tremendous demands placed on Muslim men to defend honour and conquer the infidels leads them into a fusion of sex and violence, often taken out on their wives, who in turn get their revenge by sacrificing their first born sons to Allah as suicide bombers. Once political ideology fuses with sexual desire, the society is literally fucked. If you doubt me, take another look at Visconti's film The Damned. Or watch Fauda to see the fusion unfold in real life drama. Which has a strange boomerang effect on western idiots chanting pro-Palestinian propaganda and denying the sexual violence of October 7. I suggest the effect is to desexualize their own sexuality and sublimate it in slogans that do no harm but enable them afterwards to go to Starbuck in keffiyehs. Little wonder that the birth rate of western society is declining everywhere. Who needs sex when you can have encampments?
Oh wow. There's a great deal to chew on!
• Girls' clitoris should be cut (Muhammad's words, Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251). • Girls can be sodomized until and vaginally raped after 8 years of age (see Islam & Sex). • A woman or girl who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s). • Testimonies of 4 male witnesses are required to prove rape of a female (Quran 24:13). • A woman or girl who alleges rape without producing 4 male witnesses is guilty of adultery. • A woman or girl found guilty of adultery is punishable by death • A male convicted of rape can have his conviction dismissed by marrying his victim. • Muslim men have sexual rights to any woman/girl not wearing the Hijab (see Taharrush). • A woman can have 1 husband, who can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more. • A man can beat his wife for insubordination (see Quran 4:34 and Religion of Peace). • A man can unilaterally divorce his wife; a wife needs her husband's consent to divorce. • A divorced wife loses custody of all children over 6 years of age or when they exceed it. • A woman's testimony in court, allowed in property cases, carries ½ the weight of a man's. • A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits (see Mathematics in Quran). • A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
Islam is a war on women.