Politics and Culture
Full interview here.
Now, something completely different.
In that last post we saw a scion of the hard left acknowledge and welcome the Islamic inspiration driving their battle against the West and the Jews. This video, from Dearborn Shiite “poet” Hassan Salamey at MEMRI TV, is the other side of the equation: an Islamist in praise of the glorious Islamic regime in Iran couched in terms of liberation from Western hegemony, imperialist crimes, secular and godless values, and the evil Zionists.
He even throws in a Martin Luther King pastiche – “In a religion where supremacy is not decided by being black or white, Arab or not, rich or poor, but by the content of the character and obedience to the Lord. And the fear of the ones who have us under control, who oppress and murder, is that this message will go beyond Iran’s borders and expand even further.”
And they buy it. Idiots like Palestine Action’s Calla Walsh actually buy this stuff. They think an Islamic theocracy – currently butchering its best young people – is a progressive force against the evils of western liberal democracy.
“And I don’t think you can understand the efficacy and the strength of the resistance without understanding its Islamic character, and its spiritual character that unifies it, that provides it with this strength and this determination …”.
The total moral bankruptcy of the hard left Free Palestine crowd in one short video.
They – the media – often claim that it’s difficult to know what’s going on, or to verify the sources. That never stopped them from splashing every Hamas “news” release across the front pages.
Victoria Smith in the Telegraph:
According to Meghan Trainor, surrogacy “is not something to whisper about or judge”. Then again, she would say that. The singer has just announced the arrival of a third child, Mikey Moon, born via surrogate. An Instagram post shows Trainor in a hospital bed, tears of joy in her eyes as she clutches her recent purchase.
Somewhere out of shot is another woman, unphotogenically awaiting the trials of the post-partum stage.
Newsweek reports that Trainor has faced “an onslaught of hate” following her announcement. The language here, and in other pieces decrying the “loaded discourse” of critics, hints at something irrational, if not downright mean.…
One of the oddities of today’s politics is the way in which rich people renting the wombs and buying the babies of the poor has been coded as progressive, while any criticism is cast as mean-spirited and unempathetic.
Those who judge posh white ladies for hiring cleaners, and respond to any safeguarding concern with the retort that children are not property, tend to be at home with this extreme manifestation of privilege and reduction of humans to purchasable commodities.
Yet as the sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman argues: “we have in every every pregnant woman the living proof that individuals do not enter the world as autonomous, atomistic, isolated beings, but begin socially, begin connected”. This is not a connection that can be bought or sold.
The surrogacy process is by its very nature dehumanising, no matter how pretty the “commissioning parent” looks on Instagram. In her 1998 piece on the Baby M case, Katha Pollitt noted that when the woman involved “signed her contract, she was promising something it is not in anyone’s power to promise: not to fall in love with her baby”.
Surrogates are encouraged to switch off feelings, to view their pregnancies as “extreme babysitting” and to “think of their wombs as carriers, bags, suitcases, something external to themselves”.
“Extreme babysitting”. Good lord. It’s human trafficking: the buying and selling of babies.
“There is no one to help us. We are being massacred. Kobani, the fortress of the Kurds…Kobani is encircled. West Kurdistan is surrounded. The entire Arab nation has betrayed us. ISIS beheaded our wives and daughters”. A Kurdish woman protesting outside the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq. At MEMRI TV.
Elsewhere, a Syria regime-affiliated fighter proudly holds up the braid of hair of a female Kurdish fighter killed in Raqqa clashes, as the Syrian government retakes swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Kurdish forces.
The Arabs may be doing the killing, but it’s Turkey orchestrating this.
The only friends the Kurds have in the Middle East are the Jews.
The Mail has the story.
Mick Hartley 