Codger on Politics

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Islam is radical, Islam is the Problem

Islam is radical, Islam is the Problem

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ayaan-hirsi-ali/from-selma-to-tunis-when-will-we-march-against-the-segregation-of-our-own-time_b_6915660.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000090

""But I am also addressing Western liberals -- and not only those at Brandeis University who last year saw fit to rescind their institution's offer to me of an honorary degree.

In their letter denouncing me, 87 Brandeis faculty members accused me of suggesting that:

violence toward girls and women is particular to Islam or the Two-Thirds World, thereby obscuring such violence in our midst among non-Muslims, including on our own campus [and]... the hard work on the ground by committed Muslim feminist and other progressive Muslim activists and scholars, who find support for gender and other equality within the Muslim tradition and are effective at achieving it.

Seriously? "Support for gender and other equality within the Muslim tradition"? As for Muslim feminists "achieving" greater equality, the evidence, as we have seen, is that women's rights in the Muslim world are being rapidly eroded by the spread of Islamism.""

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

This Nobody Doesn't Know

This Nobody Doesn't Know
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/03/boehners_sorry_spectacle_125793.html

"As everyone knows, the speaker is being stymied by far-right conservatives who insist on using the Homeland Security funding measure as a vehicle to protest President Obama's executive actions on immigration. And as everyone except those far-right conservatives knows, this is a self-defeating exercise in utter futility. The Senate won't pass these immigration provisions. The president won't sign them into law. For the House conservatives, this is not a winnable fight."

I just don't know, does that make me a nobody? Maybe the lefty columnist is not qualified to say. Here's hoping the speaker pays him no more attention than I do.