Constitutional questions derail America’s first FGM trial; the government will almost certainly appeal, and the beat goes on.
Saudi women are wearing their black sacks inside out as a sign of protest; their leaders are being tortured in Saudi jails.
The farcical current leaders of the Women’s March, with their passion for Farrakhan, Hamas, and Bill Cosby, are under serious pressure to fuck off. One of them, Linda Sarsour, is the Mad Trump of the movement, screaming for Ayan Hirsi Ali’s vagina to be removed, and every day sharing with us more and more of her pornographic imagination. Sarsour is in the grand tradition of
Houria Bouteldja, the [Party of Indigenous People of the Republic’s] charismatic spokeswoman, [who] has in recent years won notoriety for her defense of Muslim men accused of sexual violence. Faced with “testosterone-fuelled virility among indigenous men,” she has argued, women of color should look for its redeeming side, “the part that resists colonial domination,” and stand with their brothers.
Since Sarsour and her co-leaders represent the exact opposite of the democratic values for which the march stands, UD remains baffled as to their continued high profile. It’s precisely zanies like these who continue to sabotage the Democratic Party in this country, making it a big fat target for conservatives.
November 22nd, 2018 at 6:08PM
I’m not hearing much squawking, UD. The progressive nightly network noise I watch seems to have missed this one entirely. FGM is, of course, the kissin’ cousin of some other kinds of considerably more radical genital mutilation now heartily embraced in certain fashionable quarters.
November 22nd, 2018 at 6:57PM
tp: There’s a little squawking, but not much. FGM has to do with women, poor women, darker-skinned women, and therefore no one much cares. And of course their cause is fatally hurt by it being, you know, their culture and how wonderfully richly diverse such practices are…