CharlesRabb wrote:
Where is Michelle Obama's hashtag campaign #BanShariaLaw? I guess she'd rather ban cupcakes from kindergartners.
Yet ISIS, the Taliban and other Muslim extremist groups are committing horrific acts of violence against women and children every day. Under Sharia Law, women have virtually zero rights and are routinely raped, beaten and sold off as sex slaves or child brides. Many are forced to wear a burqa and can't even show their faces in public. Women and girls are abused, tortured, stoned, gang-raped or outright killed if they do anything their male rulers deem wrong.
In August, ISIS kidnapped 3,000 women and girls at Mount Sinjar and are using them right now as "war booty." These women -- and girls as young as 12 -- are being beaten, humiliated and raped daily.
Yet American feminists and liberal women's groups have remained shockingly silent on this barbarism. Instead of focusing on this very real war on women, Democratic women reserve their vicious attacks for Republicans and the Tea Party.
DNC spokeswoman Debra Wasserman Schultz and other liberal congresswomen and senators come out in droves and attack any conservative they find handy, including their most recent target, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
And if Sandra Fluke doesn't get free birth control -- watch out! Does anyone else find this absurd?
The reality is that getting free condoms or $15 worth of birth control pills is small ball compared to the torture and abuse countless Muslim women and girls are facing throughout the world. And let's not forget, ISIS is threatening to attack the U.S. and raise its jihadi flag at the White House.
If Democratic women want to protect their own freedoms, they should be paying more attention to ISIS and less to Hobby Lobby -- which, the last time I checked, offered its female employees 16 different types of birth control.
American women of all political stripes and backgrounds should be demanding that our government destroy ISIS before it brings its radical jihad to our backyards.
They should also be pressuring the U.N. and our commander in chief to rescue Muslim women and girls who are still being held hostage by ISIS in Iraq and Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Obama ISIS, Islamic State, has nothing to do with Islam.
Next he will tell us Shariah law has nothing to do with Islam.
IF you believe that he will say Islam has nothing to do with Islam.
Obama is a lying, gutless twit as are most liberals, so dont expect any of them to criticize Islam, as they want all the Muslim votes for the Dems.
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Maybe, American women don't feel it necessary to speak-out against Shria law because, Shira law doesn't frighten them any more than the American, reich-winger politicians who say there's no such thing as rape, or that a woman has a built-in, biological means of preventing a pregnancy after being raped. Or because American women have a larger distrust of conservatives, already trying to do what you're now clanging your alarm bell over. But, instead, you say it's ISIS that is the real enemy. Maybe American women think that the "clear and present danger" isn't on the other side of the globe, but has been inside the USA all along; only masquerading as "compassionate conservatives."
Maybe they're tired of a bunch of American men deciding what a woman can and can't do regarding the reproductive aspects of their own bodies. Maybe they think that all of your American male bluster and wringing of the hands is just a political stunt to get women to focus away from the issues at home, and instead, focus on the less relevant issues of what's occurring of the other side of the world. Maybe they think that the biggest threat to their personal rights, come from American, conservative, Republican, T-baggers and libertarians, in their own country and not from ISIS. Additionally, maybe they realize that wearing a burka is more of a cultural identity phenomenon, based on Middle Eastern and Muslim traditions, instead of being forced into it simply because they're Muslim and the Koran dictates it. Besides, not all Muslim women wear burkas. Look at Muslim women in a Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Jordan. There are many practicing Muslim women in those countries that don't wear burkas. I've seen many Americans of the Muslim faith that don't wear burkas in public. I've worked with Muslim women that don't wear a burka, but do wear their head scarf.
Maybe, in spite of your incessant beating of war drums, American women see Dems, liberals and moderates as people more in tune to their thinking; in tune to allow them control over their own bodies; in tune to the demands that modern American society puts on women to not only raise a family on their own, but to protect it and provide for it. Maybe they see ISIS as the lesser threat to their freedoms than people in their own country, their fellow countrymen. To me, that doesn't seem like a good position for the reich-wingers to be in, politically. You know the saying, "Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn."
Instead of treating American women in the same fashion as Shira Law does, by treating women like no more than chattel, perhaps you reich-wingers should look for ways to promote the rights of women. Ya know, it just might work, and then, you'd be closer to attaining sexual equality in your ranks. Until then, continue your propaganda antics and scare tactics on those women who were brought up to believe that "the man always knows best how to treat his woman." I have no doubt that those tactics might get you guys 5-10% of the women electorate to vote your way.
So, unlike your "we're open to invasion by ISIS," alarm, maybe the women of America think, that based on what they've heard, read and seen, coming from the reich-wingers in their own country, that they'd best keep their eyes on the likes of you. After all, many American reich-wingers like to justify their stance on how women want to be or should be treated by quoting various passages from the Bible. The use of quoting passages from the Bible, in order to justify one's political stance, has been around long before the "Moral Majority" began using it. The practice was misused then and it continues to be misused today.
Personally, I think that people who like to use that approach have some serious issues. We live in a country that has no official state religion and according to its Constitution, isn't allowed to promote one religion over another. Yet, many of our lawmakers use religion as their basis to pass laws that restrict women's rights, and, at the same time, neglect to apply those same laws to men. I also think that using quotes from the Bible to justify American women's place in society is very similar to Muslims using various portions of the Koran to dictate to their women how they must cover, use and control their bodies. Oddly, too, the rules of both religions, governing how women are treated, how to dress and how they must behave at home and in public, are often times used to deny women the same rights that you now are telling American women they will lose once Shira law comes to the US.
Of course, your propensity is to paint any and all of any particular group with the same broad brush. It might work with those credulous people who don't know better and are easily frightened and led around by the nose. Besides, given all of your bravado, you'll be around to protect your women-folk from the god-less hordes as they come, sweeping across 2 oceans, in their efforts to take over the world. In case you've not checked the numbers, there are enough guns, in the hands of the American public, to arm every one old enough to carry, MULTIPLE weapons.
At present, I doubt there will ever be an invasion of the US by ISIS. The best they can do is to initiate terrorist attacks. If you're so afraid that ISIS is already at our borders, why is Obama's asking Congressional approval to fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq? Why aren't our armed forces sitting in camps all along our Canadian and Mexican borders? If I were plan an invasion of the US, using a large force of soldiers, I'd come in across the Canadian border. It's far less patrolled. The Canadian provinces are sparsely populated and there are thousands of timbered land which can hide a small army.
I fully expect you to reply using your typical hate-filled reich-wing rhetoric which is totally devoid of facts. You've already made it perfectly clear that you don't like the man. However, I seriously doubt your hate of him causes him to lose any sleep at night.