“I am categorically opposed to all forms of misogynist conservatism, be them Islamic, Christian, or Secular: I stand by the non-relative radical truth that women are people.”

Based on this radical belief, I do not support propaganda which suggests that the Big Western Hero with his chiseled chin must sweep in to SAVE! the poor, hajib wearing exotic beauties chained into slavery by their brutish Islamic masters.

Instead, I will listen to the feminist voices present in both Islam and the Middle East and help out where I can.

Did you know they exist? Yep! Yanar Mohammad, for example.

I been tryin’ to get Canajuns to stop proppin’ up The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. We got this here warlord Karzai and a buncha torturin’ lackeys runnin’ Afstan under constitutionally enshrined Sharia law.

We got good Canajun soldiers dyin’ so’s Karzai’s bunch can dole out the death penalty fer “humiliating Islam.” We’re fightin’ fer Karzai’s own brother who’s a well-known major opium dealer. Under Afghanistan’s new constitution, conversion from Islam to Christianity is a death sentence crime.

In September of 2007, Karzai was quoted:

“If a group of Taliban or a number of Taliban come to me and say, `President, we want a department in this or in that ministry, or we want a position as deputy minister … and we don’t want to fight any more’ … If there will be a demand and a request like that to me, I will accept it.”

Yessirree, HardboiledEgg, us lefties sure are givin’ Islamists a free ride. It’s them who are proppin’ up Karzai and Taliban-Lite who are really the problem.

JB

Funny how you moonbats dump on the Jesus Brigades, yet ignore Sharia, and the inbred misogyny and conservatism Islam presents.

Moral relativism is bigotry – writ large. Maybe it’s cause the hommus is better than chitlins…

Whatever the elected politicians can pass. In the case of the US constitution, there is remarkably unambiguous language as to how powers are divided and to whom unenumerated rights belong, and that has not prevented people who covet some type of control or influence over others from having their way.

Oops, my bad, that’s another ‘religion’.

Hey, anybody but the PIAPS!

if you’re MAD
punish your country
VOTE for Hillary

http://haltterrorism.com/

http://absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com/
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I think we have come dangerously close to a theocracy. I think it could get worse.

If it is enshrined in law that the constitution comes from god instead of the people what does constitutional law become?

What does an offense against the constitution become?

Do you think that sacred law and charges of heresy in the highest courts of the land will provide any benefit to the people of the United States of America?

Lets face it, they are probably going to get either Obama or Hillary “Bush-lite” Clinton.

As someone who lived in the US for a long time, I can tell you, that American in general: not Republicans, not Democrats, like being told by “the world” how to vote in their own country.

As for ‘the left’, most of the posts I have read have been defending the HRC, not Soharwardy. Most of ‘the left’ that I have read are pretty clear that this is frivolous and will be dismissed, because it has no merits.

Further, I have actually sided, begrudgingly, with Ezra that the HCRs should not exist.

I make it a point to defend the principle even if it means defending people, like Ezra AND Soharwardy , whom a vehemently disagree with.

In this case, I choose to spend my time and resources defending against what I see is the greater danger to my life and freedom. In this case, it is a fundamentalist Christian running for the US presidency that is more of a danger than an obscure Edmonton Imam. And that is where I will spend my efforts.

As an atheist, I appreciate the sentiment. However, I’ve seen nothing but people on the left going out of their way to defend Soharwardy in this case. I defend neither Christian fundamentalists or Islamic fundamentalists in their beliefs. I do, defend both groups rights to hold their beliefs, though. In all my years of blog posting, I’d challenge someone to find me defending social conservatives. I have always been a stark secular, classical liberal.

But I see people on the left, going out of their way to defend “minorities” who can, in many ways be far more offensive in their thinking, than any member of the Christian-right I’ve ever met.

To say, you only defend the former, because it’s not likely they will come to power, is quite possibly the most absurd rationalization for defending outward un-progressiveness I’ve ever heard.

To that end, I wrote a whole post on this: http://noncogent.blogspot.com/2008/01/on-ezra-motive-of-left.html

I never you see people referring to Rudy William Louis Giuliani, or Fred Dalton Thompson.

It must be so hard to be so scared all the time.