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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

The Axis of Evil Hypocrisy

'Oh my God I have no friends. I'm like America the man'
American Dad

America, and other Western countries, within the last decade alone, have militarily intervened or bombed the shit out of or let drones attack the following countries; Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya and more by proxy. The famous justification for devastating Iraq was that 'God told me (George Bush) to do it'. The next stop on the sold out war tour of Muslim countries is Iran. I really don't know what I will do if this happens. How many more wars can we tolerate? How many more millions can suffer for the agendas of a few?

In a society where everything must be portrayed as a fantastical fairytale or it is simply irrelevant, the Americans are the good guys no matter how violent they are and Iran are the villains or 'not rational actors'. Newt Gingrich even said if it takes a pre-emptive strike to prevent another holocaust then so be it. Who exactly is threatening another holocaust????




Ahmedinibob has never threatened a holocaust and contrary to popular media mantra has also not denied the holocaust. If the mass media bothered to translate and communicate effectively it would have transpired that what he said was that the West rams 'free speech' down everyone's throat, using it as a tool to demean other countries yet is is illegal to deny the holocaust in certain countries and at the very least, any discussion that the holocaust didn't happen and/or is exaggerated is somehow off limits. The West committing hypocrisy? Never! Iran has merely committed the crime of intervening in the affairs of its neighbours, and the US, although they like capitalism, they do not like competition.


When someone says the word 'terrorist' what comes into your mind? Is it a Middle Eastern man with a beard? Because the biggest terrorists I see are white men in suits, talking of war as if they are talking about taking a walk in the park.  Prior to invading Iraq, the US were desperately trying to get as many countries on side as possible, lest we forget there were many who were involved in the invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia; Britain, Australia, Spain to name a few. One of the few European countries that refused to corroborate was famously France. Why? Not because France is 'Switzerland' but because Jacques Chirac had been a soldier, he had actually experienced what it was really like to step over dead and injured bodies in a war zone. One would think that it is probably easier to sign papers to send others to their death than going on the front line yourself.



Is it purely coincidental that the US have pulled out of Iraq and trying to get out of Afghanistan? Are they gearing up for a war on one axis of evil?

Just like the Hollywood movies we are bombarded with, these threats and ridiculous reasoning for war are myths based on the fantasy in someone's head. Just like the picture that is globally depicted as Jesus, which was created by an Italian painter centuries after Jesus' death, looking suspiciously like an Italian. Pure fantasy. I understand that Thatcher and Reagan implemented capitalism in order for the West to thrive but now capitalism controls the politicians. I knew AIPAC was rich and powerful but I didn't know they had enough money to buy the souls of the ones that lead us.





Saturday, 3 December 2011

Saudi Women Driving



There has been a lot of hubub about this issue, which I feel is disproportionate to the subject of equality and treatment of women around the world, e.g. female genital mutilation, mass rape, rape leading to women being legitimately punished... I have a lot of sympathy for Saudi women but the fact that they cannot drive is the least of their worries regarding gender equality so the publicity that this particular issues garners is actually patronising toward them.

Some clerics advising the legislative assembly in Saudi recently concluded that lifting the ban on women driving would lead to no more virgins, prostitution, homosexuality, pornography and divorce.

This adds fuel to the fire that this ruling has on the outside world's already Islamaphobic impression of the Middle East, it was a popular citation of 'pastor' Terry Jones, has been a source of protest of those idiot topless protesters (see previous blog) and is one of the biggest topics of the region in the West. It has become such a point of symbolism that I fear exactly because of it, the conservative authorities of Saudi will be even more resistant to lifting the ban.

Yet I somehow do not think that women driving would be a slippery slope, I think that they just may be a little more preoccupied with things like you know, being able to drive their own children to school, running errands, going to work and visiting their family and friends.

It is noble that one should want to physically protect the women in their family and society but not trusting them to resort to prostitution shows that it is not protection that they are concerned about, they actually literally believe that without legal bans women would want to whore it up. How homosexuality and pornography relates to women driving I do not know, can someone please explain this to me?? And God forbid women would want to divorce terrible husbands! Yet men there can divorce women without their presence or knowledge. Other ridiculous double standards include but are not limited to;

Women's testimony in court not being equal to that of a man; they almost always receive harsher legal punishments than men; gender dictating what ministries and restaurants they can enter; they can only do certain subjects at university; and at age 12 girls are forced to wear burkhas in public schools, the list literally goes on.

The argument for the other side of the argument is rarely cited so this is what I have gathered from the little sources I could find; Saudi is an extremely conservative country so the ruling befits this particular society just as liberalism and legalised prostitution befits other countries. Furthermore, they would not want their women to be treated as they are in the West i.e. sexually exploited and made to believe their entire self worth is from their looks. Finally, not all women want to be able to drive hence the relatively low numbers that attempt to defy the ban.

There is credence to both points of view but moreover, letting women drive as a token gesture, just as allowing them to vote was, will have no effect on the worse aspects of inequality.



See also http://raraproductions.blogspot.com/ and http://anbarrockny.blogspot.com/