The Women's March 2017

On January 21, 2017, there was a 'Women's March on Washington' to protest the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.

Here is the 'Mission & Vision' statement for the 2017 'Women's March on Washington' —

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https://archive.is/WXbcs

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Notice this sentence from the 'Mission & Vision' statement shown above —

'We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.'

And this —

'We will not rest until women have parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society.'

Very well.   What reasonable person who would disagree with such statements?

Here is the 'Unity Principles' statement for the 2017 'Women's March on Washington' —

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https://archive.is/hXlI6

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Notice this sentence from the 'Unity Principles' statement shown above —

'We believe that Women’s Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are Women’s Rights.'

It would have been clearer to write that there are no separate categories of rights — there are only individual rights, and which all women share with everyone else.  As written in the quote above, the implication is that only women have rights — and from the behavior of many women, I do not doubt that many of them believe this.

And notice the element of confusion in this sentence —

'Women deserve to live full and healthy lives, free of all forms of violence against our bodies.'

'Living a full and healthy life' depends on a long list of factors, most of which cannot be provided by government (even with no restraints on taxation), and as such are not a legitimate subject of a protest.  Obviously, health, as just one example, is primarily a product of nature — even with advanced medical care, the physiological processes of the human body are largely beyond the control of medical science (see the survival rate of pancreatic cancer, for example).   And of course, 'a full life' depends primarily on one's own choices — this makes it especially telling that it would be included in a statement of protest principles, as if such individual choices are somehow to be dealt with as a matter of government policy.   Even if some form of government could provide complete protection from any crime or violence, this would in no way ensure that any individuals 'lived full lives'.

And of course, again, no reasonable person would disagree with ending 'all forms of violence'.   Though it is not clear why the qualifier 'against our bodies' would be added — the implication is that forms of harassment are acceptable.

But now notice the national co-chairs of the 2017 'Women's March on Washington', and that a prominent supporter of Sharia Law, Linda Sarsour, is among them —

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https://www.womensmarch.com/team/
https://archive.is/h9hfs

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Here are a number of tweets from Linda Sarsour from 2014 and 2016, promoting Sharia Law —

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https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/483624197931806720
https://archive.is/OcW0P

https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/484513285921046529
https://archive.is/Ga2Fx

https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/534073703588700160
https://archive.is/twVRD

https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/719301817771892737
http://archive.is/w6ood

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Here are two more tweets from Linda Sarsour from May, 2015, extolling a supposed virtue of Sharia Law — interest free debt.   This begs the obvious question, who would be doing any lending when it only cost them to do so —

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https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/598327052727615488
https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/598326262218813440
http://archive.is/Tepny
https://archive.is/bGUtO

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And here is a tweet from Linda Sarsour from March, 2011, denouncing two women who are vocal critics of Islam, Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.   Note that Ayaan Hirsi Ali was raised Muslim, and suffered the customary Islamic female genital mutilation at the hands of her grandmother.  Ayaan Hirsi Ali may know slightly more about the practice of Sharia Law than Linda Sarsour.   I guess Linda Sarsour did not feel the need here to be restrained by the 'Unity Principles' statement of the 'Women's March on Washington', that women should be 'free of all forms of violence against our bodies' —

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https://archive.is/ZdFSI

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Here are replies from a Saudi Arabian woman to one of Linda Sarsour's tweets — she did not appreciate the false statements that Linda Sarsour has made regarding the supposed benefits of Sharia Law —

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https://archive.is/68JAd

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So much for those mission and principle statements of the 2017 'Women's March on Washington' —

'We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.'

'We will not rest until women have parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society.'

'We believe that Women’s Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are Women’s Rights.'

But it gets even worse.

Now notice the honorary co-chairs of the 2017 'Women's March on Washington', and that a prominent Communist, Angela Davis, is among them —

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https://archive.is/TXzui

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The photo below is of Angela Davis with Erich Honecker in 1972.   Honecker was the Communist leader of East Germany from 1971 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.   Keep this quote from the profile of Angela Davis above in mind, as you ponder the picture below, showing her being friendly with a brutal dictator —

'Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice.'

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/women-on-fbis-most-wanted-list/3/

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Also, notice that Angela Davis was the second black woman to make the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list —
     http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/meet-nine-women-fbi-s-10-most-wanted-list-n552631
     https://archive.is/80upV

In August of 1970, Davis was a fugitive wanted on murder and kidnapping charges, as a result of acting as an accomplice in an attack on a courtroom in Marin County, California.  Guns which were registered to Davis were used in the armed escape of the three murder defendants, 'The Soledad Brothers', from the Marin County courtroom.  The three defendants and the case judge, Harold Haley, were killed in a shootout with police, as they were transported away from the courtroom.  Davis was arrested two months later at a Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in New York City, and was later acquitted by jurors of kidnapping and murder, since she was not directly involved in the attack.  Angela Davis is now 'Distinguished Professor Emerita' at the University of California, Santa Cruz —
     https://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=aydavis
     https://archive.is/WhIG

Those on the political left have a consistent pattern of defending tyranny in general — including Islam.   Linda Sarsour is a perfect demonstration of the pattern — as is the 2017 'Women's March on Washington', which Linda Sarsour helped to organize.

That a noted Communist with a checkered past like Angela Davis would be featured prominently as an 'honorary co-chair' of the 2017 'Women's March on Washington' further demonstrates that point.

Here are more examples —
     http://maxautonomy.blogspot.com/2015/06/progressive-infatuation-with-totalitarianism.html
     http://maxautonomy.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-courage-of-charlie-hebdo-the-cowardice-of-john-semley.html
     http://maxautonomy.blogspot.com/2016/04/garry-trudeau-charlie-hebdo-cowardly-conformity.html

If either of the ideologies that Linda Sarsour and Angela Davis promote were put into practice in the U.S., a 'Women's March' would not be possible, and they would be among the first to be imprisoned.

Linda Sarsour: Obedience Is Freedom

As of this writing, Linda Sarsour is the executive director of the 'Arab American Association of New York'.  Linda is a Muslim American woman, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Here is a short video profile of Linda Sarsour —

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vduu3_c5xo

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At 1:19 in the video clip above Linda Sarsour makes the following statement —

"Oppression of women is absolutely shunned in the Islamic faith."

It seems that Linda Sarsour never read Chapter 4, Verse 34 from the Quran (one of the founding texts of the religion of Islam), which clearly states that 'righteous women are devoutly obedient', and that husbands can 'strike their wives' as a last resort, simply for 'fearing they are arrogant' —

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http://quran.com/4/34

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Is that what you think of as 'absolutely shunning' the oppression of women?

And notice that Linda Sarsour also claims to be a feminist (she states this in the first 10 seconds of the video above).

What an odd notion — that the subjugation of women by men would be considered consistent with a movement that was founded to promote the rights of women — i.e. feminism.

So now, according to Linda Sarsour, being a follower of a set of religious beliefs which explicitly state that 'men are in charge of women', and that husbands can strike their wives for arrogance, is in no way incompatible with feminism.

You could not make this up.  It would be difficult to find two beliefs that are more contradictory — feminism and Islam — and yet we have this fairly common, but bizarre spectacle of women defending a belief system which could not be more explicit about oppressing them.

Here is a page at WhiteHouse.gov promoting Linda Sarsour as a 'Champion of Change' —

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http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2014/04/white-house-champion-of-change-linda.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYwq0cC_1g

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It is just a little ironic that the Obama administration would honor someone who believes that an Al-Qaeda plot to blow up civilian aircraft, that was foiled in part by the CIA, was actually a plot by the CIA.  Here is a tweet by Linda Sarsour to that effect, along with links to two articles that attempt to explain what was really going on —

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-disrupts-airline-bomb-plot/2012/05/07/..._story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...-aqap-took-bait-dangled-by-saudi-informant/2012/05/09/..._story.html

https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/200052719178883073

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And I wonder how the many young women and girls who are victims of Islamic religious practices (such as being beaten for supposedly being arrogant), would react to knowing that a woman in the United States is to some degree celebrated for defending the religion that oppresses them.

For example, consider the case of Nada Al-Ahdal, who I wrote about here, back in January of 2015.

Or consider the even more infamous case of Nujood Ali, who was married at 8 years old, and raped and beaten by her husband —

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https://www.journeyman.tv/film/5951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmP66xGpjGo

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Or consider the terrible problem of child brides in general.   This 'Journeyman Pictures' documentary is specific to that Islamic practice in Yemen, but there is no indication that this problem is isolated to that country —

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https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6091
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_19_xIYEmI

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So much for Linda Sarsour's absurd claim that the religion of Islam shuns the oppression of women (as if Islam shuns the oppression of anyone).

And it should not be surprising that Linda Sarsour's organization, 'Arab American Association of New York' would receive funds from the New York City 'Mayor's Fund To Advance NYC', under Bill De Blasio, since Linda Sarsour campaigned for De Blasio —
     http://nypost.com/2015/10/23/taxpayers-should-not-be-funding-this-anti-american-hate-spewer/
     http://www.jewishpress.com/. . ./nyc-gives-500k-to-group-led-by-violence-glorifying-arab-activist/2016/04/04/

In my previous post about Nada Al-Ahdal back in January of 2015, I also mentioned Nujood Ali, and pointed to an article that quoted Nujood as being bitterly disappointed, because even after all of the international attention Nujood received for having the courage to seek a divorce from her abusive husband without the support of her family, she and others like her received no help.

Well, to Nujood I would say, sorry, but no one is coming — they are too busy celebrating the likes of useful idiots like Linda Sarsour, and their attempts to distract from the atrocities committed in the name of Islam.