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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more I could have done, but alas...I didn't have that much time. If you want to join in the fun...make one and tweet it to me @nicemangos :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway - a clarification for the pedants: I use the terms IDW/Classical Lib to describe them, their dogmatic fans <i>and</i> the figures who hover around them....the Quillette, '<i>But what about anti-white racism</i>' types...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">...So it's not limited to the amazing bigbrained peeps mentioned in Bari Weiss' </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">LOL-worthy article</a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (featuring pictures of them jerking off trees or hiding in bushes)....you know the one i'm talking about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Why is it important to mock this pretentious circle-jerk as often as possible, you ask? I'll give you a quick rundown, even though I could write a bit on each central figure here, I just don't have the time to delve in that deep at the moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Simply put though, its because they're pushing some dangerous ideas and providing cover for dangerous people. In a new, repackaged & polished format this isn't immediately recognizable to some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They're driven by a strongly anti-left agenda, while often simultaneously claiming they are on the left ...or at least ‘not right wing’ (though they do have their more open RW types like Ben Shapiro/JBP, but I believe even Peterson <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/yes-jordan-peterson-really-is-that-smart">has denied</a> being a conservative), </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I find it's almost better to deal with an open right wing, anti-immigrant type than to deal with a sophist covering their tracks every step of the way, leaving room for plausible deniability, while being an apologist for similar issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In this era of a resurgent far-right and rising hate crimes.... this 'totally-not-right-wing' crew still focus their energies on the left while downplaying the dangers of the far right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anything random campus SJWs do will be an outrage and indicative of the 'rot on the left'... but when it comes down to calling out Milo Yiannopolous, even after he's exposed for being a pedophilia apologist...there will be excuses.... deflections - even if it means pointing the finger at fictional plays and then realizing that your example is ridiculous. </span></div>
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There will be reminders that Milo was smart and charismatic (they'll say they are no fans, of course!)...but even in the face of him defending sex with minors there will be 'he doesn't deserve this... let's wish him well and hope he can leverage his charm into a new life' type apologetics. </div>
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I remember this too. Cringe.<br />
I genuinely don't understand how u can have this attitude towards some of the worst ppl around, but feminists and campus sjws just don't get that kind of sympathy and understanding. <br />
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— Eiynah --- (@NiceMangos) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiceMangos/status/951917121713393665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Or at best, they'll say<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/7j0gjp/milo_is_gay_jewish_has_a_black_boyfriend_i_mean/"> Milo can't be far right because he's gay and flamboyant, Jewish and has a black boyfriend</a> . They'll dismiss him as a mere troll...justify his outrage at the 'liberal media bias'...and complain about his Twitter Ban. Or defend him using Breitbart articles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They'll be happy to threaten to quit Patreon over banning White identitarian Lauren Southern...meanwhile portraying her to their massive audiences as a mere 'conservative journalist'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">...the best you'll get is a shrug and a claim that they 'just don't know enough' to make a judgement on him (while they retweet flawed defences of him).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Even in the wake of serious incidents like more than a dozen pipe bombs being mailed to Trump’s critics their priorities do not shift from the dangers of sjws and The Left. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">They will minimize RW terror threats even, referring to them as "minor events"/a few malicious jerks...</span><br />
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Once again the press gets gamed, giving saturation coverage and agonized commentary to a minor event. It's not major news that a country of 325m has a few malicious jerks who (correctly) anticipate 15 minutes of notoriety with a vindictive stunt. <a href="https://t.co/zXnBJXCqdB">https://t.co/zXnBJXCqdB</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But compare that with the wording you often see about The Left, 'Devouring it's Children' .. oh nooo: </span><br />
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Another Amazing take in response to the Pipe bombs was telling people we shouldn't make it 'costly to consider conspiracy' FFS</div>
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You kicked up a lot of dust, tried to tie me to Trump, to Alex Jones and to various claims that I've never made, but in the end you avoid my only point: If we make it costly to consider conspiracy, we hand power to those who would conspire, placing the honorable at their mercy. <a href="https://t.co/dvB1Mi6pg5">https://t.co/dvB1Mi6pg5</a></div>
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Those that follow this cheerful group closely, know full well how often they whitewash troubling views/figures ...or <a href="https://www.echoplexmedia.com/new-blog/2018/5/14/your-atheist-guru-is-stefan-molyneuxs-bitch">delete criticism</a> of them if it happens to come up. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s about joining hands with those <a href="https://twitter.com/andyriga/status/985939322263228417">radicalizing young men</a>, with those who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmE1cNB9WI">fear monger about immigrants</a>, and the <a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4868/full">whiteness levels of London being too low</a> (aka the far right conspiracy of 'white genocide') - its about giving these things more credibility in the mainstream, and helping to justify and rationalize people’s bigotries while making big bucks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s about amplifying the "#metoo has gone too far" message, about how women have it better and if they don't have power it's because they don't want to have more power,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What these IDW-type RationalSkeptic movements are about is pushing back against those who want equality, and those who want to minimize racism and sexism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It's about the maintenance of social hierarchies and the status quo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s also about proclaiming ....loudly... how identity politics is bad, but using identity politics at the drop of a hat when it suits you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Its about criticizing people who use the word racist, but using it happily yourself whenever it suits you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Casually accusing groups of people of having the intellectual and moral integrity of the KKK even, </span></div>
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There you go. Sam Harris compares Salon and Vox journalists to the KKK. <a href="https://t.co/hc6hRtmxFc">pic.twitter.com/hc6hRtmxFc</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s about discrediting the media as Rubin does with his Infowars support and CNN/MSM hate, and about discrediting entire educational fields too (Peterson has declared entire fields of study 'corrupt' because of postmodern neo marxism)... all the while, these heroes pat themselves on the back for being the Rational ones ...having 'tough conversations' and tolerating differing views (while tossing out lawsuit threats like halloween candy, of course).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's about downplaying actual sieg heiling white supremacists while claiming that the term Nazi has lost meaning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I mean it's exhausting just pointing out the endless contradictions, holes and dangers of such self-important groups. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">These are the threats we recognized in islamist sanitizers posing as progressive...*immediately* in ‘skeptic circles’ but unfortunately...this crew has managed to convince many 'Rational', atheist-skeptic types that re-energizing conversations around ‘race science’, traditional gender roles, and anti trans sentiment from a ‘respectable, 'this is just science/rationality' angle is indeed ‘real liberalism’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So....this, dear readers, is a very quick rundown of why I think it’s incredibly important to mock and expose this group pushing alt lite/right adjacent talking points into the mainstream. Especially in today's political climate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is where the real threat of literal regressiveness lies, currently - and I think we should do our part to push back.</span></div>
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Eiynahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347528710695523104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731703290032072857.post-32951584591834501942018-05-18T16:52:00.001-07:002018-05-18T16:52:57.601-07:00Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I still get those, and power to the people breaking away from religion. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Such emails still fill my heart with joy because despite the accusations of 'taqqiya' that I get, I am no fan of religion. I just happen to be of muslim background and vocally against anti-muslim sentiment, so you know how it goes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I remember how freeing it was to realize you're no longer tied down by an obligation to please a god that never seems satisfied, and one that doesn't seem consistent either. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Now</i>, in addition to the 'questioning religion' emails, I get quite a lot from people questioning the double standards, the rightward shifting priorities, leaders, shady associations with the alt right/lite, etc. within movement atheism (a movement many deny exists at all, to avoid criticism). </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Of course it's not at all the same as questioning ancient ideology forced upon you since childhood - you can unclench your buttocks, haters...I'm not drawing an equivalence.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">BUT...</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">there's still something about it that feels a little regressive and cult-like. The blind faith, dogmatism, <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/sam-harris-and-the-myth-of-perfectly-rational-thought/">tribalism</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%22lady%20boy%22%20from%3Agadsaad&src=typd">homophobia</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/NiceMangos/status/986027928772374530">sexism</a>, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=.rmkOejevy#.fg00xKxgL">sexual abuse and harassment</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ4zUjMUtXQ">transphobia</a> - and often, what boils down to a refusal to question leaders. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">All these things, that make so many movement atheists smug because they regularly assume and *loudly* declare that they're above it all, are present within their own circles too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />For me personally...after leaving Islam and finding others like myself online, I thought I had <i>finally</i> found a place to belong, a place where people shared my values. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I could't have been more wrong. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"Atheism", as many twitter pedants point out when faced with any criticism of the community or leaders, means nothing more than a lack of belief in god. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So naturally, one <i>would</i> find that people from all over the political spectrum </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">can be atheists. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">What one would <i><b>not</b></i> expect however, is that the online movement that has developed ...would be biased strongly against the left, progressives, feminism - with many of it's prominent leaders signal boosting right leaning talking points or rightwing talking heads much of the time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Doug is the sweet guy you see in the clip below, who thinks even if the nicest asylum seekers are taken in...their currently unborn children ...in the future... mayyyyy...some day...you know, become terrorists. </span></span><br />
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We could take in the 'nicest' asylum seekers, 'but their son could be a suicide bomber': <a href="https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DouglasKMurray</a> on second-generation terrorists <a href="https://t.co/3yMHLjF2aj">pic.twitter.com/3yMHLjF2aj</a></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">He's also the lovely fellow who worries about <a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4868/full">declining whiteness</a> levels of London. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: helveticaneue;">He's the guy who isn't sure if men and women can work together, and who thinks women who wear makeup/high heels to work but expect not to be harassed are hypocrites. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">More recently, Peterson is also the guy who thinks that 'enforced monogamy' is a reasonable and not totally unhinged thing to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html">suggest</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Atheist movement (that does not exist) has </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a distinct culture, distinct talking points, has centred and rallied around the same causes, socialized at the same conferences and supported the same atheist/humanist groups....it has clearly appointed top-tier authorities and leaders, who's words are often treated as infallible by the most devoted...no matter how contradictory. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">How they agreed to pose for a photoshoot where they were told to stand creepily in the bushes I do not know. But it was incredibly entertaining. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />This unraveling of the movement and it's leaders has been tough to come to terms with. Especially for those of us who have already done this bit before...wrestled our beliefs, questioned respected leaders, lost community for it, and so on.<br /><br />I had noticed a troubling turn 2-3 years ago. The questions in my mind became harder and harder to ignore when Rubin arrived on scene. He really brought the hypocrisies to the surface. <br /><br />My personal, recent last straw was the treatment of the Krauss thing generally among movement leaders....and the Ezra Klein/Harris convo, the utterly obvious flaws in thinking. That was really it for me. No looking back and hoping former heroes come to their senses. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">But anyway, the point of this blog post was to share one of several emails i've received in the past couple of weeks with the same theme.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If you have a story like this to tell, email away! (nicemangosDOTblogATgmailDOTcom)<br /><br />I'm so glad more and more people are Waking Up and recognizing that something's not right here.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Harris had taken the place of a hero. Your criticisms made me defensive and dismissive but I couldn't help carry them with me after that and notice Rubin, Saad, and so on. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Peterson came along and I felt strange. When did dubious messianic preachers become the cool new thing the kids are into? </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I watched Bill Maher have this unremarkable chickenhawk cult leader in the making on his show unquestioned, unchallenged, and that's when you popped into my head for the first time in a long time. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When I went to see what you were up to, I was really happy to see you were still active, and having conversations about the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/pc-panel-14-are-too-many-atheists-veering-dangerously-towards-the-alt-right">alt-right in movement atheism.</a> </span></i></div>
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We could take in the 'nicest' asylum seekers, 'but their son could be a suicide bomber': <a href="https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DouglasKMurray</a> on second-generation terrorists <a href="https://t.co/3yMHLjF2aj">pic.twitter.com/3yMHLjF2aj</a></div>
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After this recent Channel 4 interview, we've seen a flood of predictable 'contrarian' thinkpieces pouring out in defence of this newly emerged hero...one who dares to challenge 'leftist orthodoxy', by sharing ‘truths’ that no one else will tell you. 'Truths' like, how women just <a href="http://nicemangos.blogspot.ca/2017/07/professor-jordan-peterson-charlatan.html"><span style="color: blue;">don’t WANT powerful positions</span></a>, (no really, I've watched <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7AewaHr0Q"><span style="color: blue;">lectures</span></a> of his where he, a top earner on Patreon making over 60K $ A MONTH, spends a lot of time deterring women from wanting power positions. He talks about how awful and complicated being rich is, how it can make you (women) unravel) about how the gender pay gap can be explained away because women are <b>choosing</b> lower paying careers, what they <b><i>need</i></b> in order to be happy is marriage and babies, ok? Also, there is no systemic discrimination, you silly emotional, brainwashed neo-marxist sjws! </div>
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Anyway, amidst those thinkpieces...shared by the most popular anti-left (but still clinging to leftist status) figureheads, there is a wave of outraged culty fanbases coming together, speaking out in unison against this shrill harpy of a woman who dared to have an adversarial interview with Peterson. </div>
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The ones with a bit of self-awareness and self-respect will never <i>admit</i> to being sympathetic to Peterson’s views (kind of like they did with Milo)...and so will phrase their disgust at this interview more along the lines of, “<b>I’m no Peterson fan</b> BUT, all he did was say true things while she aggressively strawmanned him.”</div>
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I honestly had to watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54"><span style="color: blue;">interview</span></a> 3 times to see if maybe I had missed something the first two times, and no, I still don’t understand where the hate and rage towards Cathy are coming from. </div>
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Why are people SO upset that she didn’t perform to their liking (people who claim to be 'for equality & progress')? I don't get it...She was pretty standardly 'meh' I thought. Not great at grilling him, sure. But at least she tried to take on this shifty charlatan.<br />
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Why the full blown outrage? I mean, I understand where it’s coming from with people who are openly anti-left and anti-feminist, people who think diversity is a codeword for white genocide…people who think theres a leftist cultural marxist conspiracy to compel them to use non-binary pronouns, or some garbage like that - But I <i>really </i>don’t understand what so-called sophisticated thinkers & non far-right lunatics are doing lowering themselves to defend Peterson in any way whatsoever. </div>
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There could have been a perfectly fair and measured critique, where people kept in sight who Peterson actually is; </div>
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A man with ideas so regressive that they're sure to set us back a few decades, if they gain enough influence. His explanation here for accusations of sex assault is not to first find fault with the perpetrators of the assault, but to blame the idea that sex is no longer enshrined in marriage (not like marital rape ever happens or anything, never mind that many of the accused are MARRIED). I mean, I'm no stranger to hearing such garbage, I did grow up in Saudi Arabia, as a woman. </div>
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I just don't expect to hear this nonsense being embraced so gleefully by people outside of a blatantly misogynistic theocracy.</div>
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In this now disproportionately notorious Channel 4 interview he remained cool and calm is all. That is not to be confused with performing well or having decent ideas...or speaking 'truths'. </div>
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He could have performed in <i>any</i> way and his sycophantic followers would have perceived it exactly how they do now. In their eyes he would have 'won' regardless. </div>
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The harassment Cathy received from this misogynistic fanbase was mentioned in several publications. At first, even causing Peterson to tell his fans:</div>
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If you're threatening her, stop. Try to be civilized in your criticism. It was words. Words, people, words. Remember those? "C4 calls in security experts after presenter suffers online abuse." <a href="https://t.co/z4UAVOSYuO">https://t.co/z4UAVOSYuO</a></div>
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Don't let it fool you though, Peterson often engages in this kind of performative condemnation, of the alt right, or of misogynistic harassment...when he feels the mainstream media are on to him. But it isn't long before he shows his hand. </div>
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He continued to post criticism of Cathy right after telling people to stop threatening her, which is not something you'd do if you were genuinely concerned about her being targeted. </div>
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He then soon went on to do another interview where he started off obsessively complaining about her...and the apparent 'spin' that was being created, that she was some kind of planned feminist martyr, because this was a sort of ...I dunno face saving tactic, because she had received so much criticism. He said the criticism was being spun as harassment. </div>
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If a future interviewer ever tried to press him on this statement and say something like <i>'wow what an irresponsible thing to say after a channel had to call in extra security because of your fanbase'</i> - he'd most definitely hide behind semantics, as he always does...and say something like, <i>"Oh I wasn't signalling that they should do that, I was saying that that's the dark part of my thoughts, something everyone experiences...everyone has dark thoughts...but obviously I believe we should control those. So I'm not sure why you are misrepresenting what I was saying there"</i> - Meanwhile, his followers would get enraged again that someone dared 'misrepresent' him, and again he'd get away with putting out troubling statements.</div>
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In all seriousness though, not everyone who jumped into this social media debate knew the backstory of Jordan B Peterson. I’m not faulting them for being unfamiliar with his views - and there are some fair criticisms to be made of Cathy’s interview but it just wouldn’t be the hill I’d die on when a swarm of far-right MRA types are already descending upon her.<br />
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These regressive ideas we thought we'd put to bed, come again in the form of various new-media far-right commentators like Milo, PJW, Molyneux, etc…who spend their time decrying victimhood culture on the left that portrays women, PoC as ‘victims’ of some systemic discrimination. Though this far rightwingery isn't all new...it's just that Fox News has more friends now - friends with influence among young people. </div>
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Eiynahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347528710695523104noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731703290032072857.post-83571546463090461322018-01-19T15:46:00.000-08:002018-01-19T15:46:25.782-08:00On Aziz Ansari: Let's Set the bar Higher than 'Not Rape'<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; text-size-adjust: auto;">I've had a hard time getting myself to sit down and write about this. I've procrastinated for days, always finding something else to do, other than think about this blogpost....or the Twitterhate writing about this subject could bring, from the antis and 'Rational Centrists' - who are usually...you know... *<i>totally* </i> believably moderate and Center in their politics. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; text-size-adjust: auto;">It's sad that we live in a world where being a feminist or simply a woman speaking up about sexual harassment/abuse/coercion/inappropriateness is a controversial position on the internet. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; text-size-adjust: auto;">There are so many thoughts buzzing around in my head...things that I’m recalling, that I’d rather not. I'm reluctantly combing through my relevant memories, because these #MeToo stories cause them all to surface. Those experiences in uni, on a packed bus, at work...with a boss creepily running his finger down my neck, bare shoulder and along my ear... (was it my fault for wearing an off shoulder top?) are all coming back to me. Another experience comes to mind, one with a doctor responsible for putting me under before a surgery - who leaned in and called me 'sexy'...as I lay there on the operating table about to be knocked out cold. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">There are so many ways that behaviour can be sexually inappropriate, a whole spectrum exists. It's not always as black and white as rape vs. not rape, attack vs. no attack...it doesn't actually have to be an 'attack' to violate someone.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; text-size-adjust: auto;">The thing that bothers me most about the discussion revolving around #MeToo, other than those trying to discredit the <i>whole</i> movement as some sort of hysterical, puritanical sex panic/witch hunt, is the binary thinking - That either this movement is perfection, impossibly unflawed....or that it is unfair and worth delegitimizing entirely... 'a<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-humiliation-of-aziz-ansari/550541/">ngry women</a>' apparently now hold a lot of 'power' over some potentially innocent men that will get caught up in this. Will somebody please think of the accused men?!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">This isn't some new thing sprung upon us by the 'spoiled, shrill, unreasonable, sjw' feminists of this decade. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Once upon a time in popular media, Pepe le Pew's courting tactics were considered acceptable for children to view, hilarious even. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">1) Of course it is in no way comparable to Weinstein, and 'Grace' from the story isn't saying that it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">2) It still paints a concerning picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">3) The <a href="https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355">Babe</a> article was done irresponsibly, it's focus on irrelevant minute details like the wine, etc. were damaging to the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">4) It still started an important conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">5) Just because it isn't rape or about workplace harassment, doesn't mean it can't be included in #MeToo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">6) Criticizing people who are less than serial rapists doesn't mean it's a witchhunt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">7) Yes there are bad takes happening in #MeToo, some blanketly throwing men under the bus. That is unavoidable in a conversation where literally anyone and everyone is chiming in. We should call those out too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">8) <i>Some</i> bad takes do not discredit all of #MeToo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">There are already many people like Christina Sommers, who will defend Milo at his worst, </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not to mention this very article laid out that the 'brave woman' being praised also defended Roman Polanski.<br />Then I was also linked to <a href="http://skepchick.org/2011/04/lawrence-krauss-defends-a-sex-offender-embarrasses-scientists-everywhere/">this</a>, and it seemed he engaged and didn't deny defending someone <br />who was jailed for paying underage sex workers. :(</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">There are takes involving the revolting hashtag #MeNeither (yes that's really a hashtag dedicated to people who <i>haven't</i> been sexually abused <strike>talking about</strike> flaunting how they haven't in the faces of those who have), that frankly strike me as reminiscent of women who insist that because *they* had a choice around the hijab and niqab, that those things are not oppressive. We have plenty such women in Pakistan and Saudi, so many of these systems would not have thrived so long without the help of women who have a case of internalized sexism. Their western counterparts are now more openly flaunting their positions, in this absurd Petersonian era of the Skeptosphere. I mean #TradLife is a meme that exists now and isn't laughed out of existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Yes yes unbunch your undies, I repeat, I know Saudi Arabia is worse and much more oppressive, and that women in Pakistan have a way tougher battle for rights ahead of them than western women do. I’ve heard that dismissing tactic enough times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">But just imagine #MeNeither being used to oppose a hashtag where women were speaking up about religiously motivated abuse and mutilation like FGM. These same #MeNeither skeptics would see it for the disgusting minimization that it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Aside from all this, there are also the deeply disappointing 'maybe Sandusky [convicted serial child rapist] is innocent' takes by <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/was-jerry-sandusky-the-most-hated-man-in-america-guilty-of-sexual-child-abuse/">Jerry Coyne</a> and in <a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/trial-by-therapy-jerry-sandusky-case-revisited/">Skeptic </a>magazine. Jerry also expressed sympathy for poor Milo <i>after</i> his whole pedophilia scandal. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before I am accused of taking it 'out of context' let me just say here's a <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/milo-falls-on-his-sword/">link </a>to the whole piece<br />read it and cringe for yourself. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">There are endless examples of concerning attitudes on this subject among 'skeptics' (see Amos Yee & the number of people that stepped up to defend or minimize Sargon tweeting 'I wouldn't even rape you', those that applauded it at an atheist/skeptic conference) ...but that's a separate blogpost in itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Aziz Ansari cuts deep, he’s a successful brown Muslim comedian…such success in hollywood is rare for brown people. I have been rooting for him from the start. I grew up longing to see faces like mine on TV...and now...there he was. Oh Aziz </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">He’s a non traditional secular guy too who makes shows about his complicated relationship with his parents religious expectations, about the first time he snuck off with his cousin to have some pork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">There is so much that deeply and personally resonates with me. He's repping secular people of muslim background in a not anti-muslim way...which is just so rare and so important. It really hurts to see him criticized like this, and it hurts to read about how he conducted himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">I don't criticize him lightly or easily, but even I can see that some criticism is warranted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">It also hurts because conservative muslims have already long attacked him with garbage takes like ‘<a href="https://www.good.is/articles/the-big-sick-culture-clash-muslims-romance">hollywood only accepts secular muslims</a>’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;"> ....And now they're using this story to say that it was his secularism or westernization that are to blame. Which is such rubbish - as if traditional muslim men who have clung to their <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/07/oxford-university-places-tariq-ramadan-on-leave-amid-claims">religiosity and culture do not mistreat women</a>..as if men directly from the old country do not mistreat women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">I am so sick of people injecting their terrible agendas into #MeToo…be it anti-feminist, anti-western, anti-left, anti-porn, anti-casual sex....This isn't about any of those things...It's about sexual abuse and misconduct in whatever forms it may occur. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Are we going to bring Henry VIII into it too? This is such foolishness, and<i> such </i>a stretch to find a way to drag Islam into it. Why do they insist on making Islam criticism so cringeworthy? Islam certainly has some terrible beliefs surrounding treatment of women, most Abrahamic religions do. But when you're grasping at straws like this and inserting mohammed into conversations like #MeToo , it just makes your criticism appear silly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">As for the anti left takes... OH MAH GAWD THE HYSTERICAL LEFT IS ON A WITCHHUNT AGAIN *eyeroll*....Yes absolutely there are some extreme takes on the left that make me cringe. Just the other day I saw one with like 25K retweets saying that men should act like their name could be on a list. I don’t think that preemptively instilling fear in innocent people is the right lesson to take from this at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Then there was someone I encountered who claimed that STEM was immoral because Krauss tweeted that disappointing article. I mean, come on...what a ridiculous conclusion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">What about this is confusing or unclear? What part requires mindreading? What has made people behave so viciously towards Grace...the fact that it wasn't rape? Come on...is that where we are as a society? Our bar should be set well above 'not rape'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">He's a celebrity she has admired, it could easily have been intimidating for her when he started undressing her so immediately. She understandably needed a moment to process wtf was happening. She gave him enough cues to stop and he didn't...until she stood up and said no <i>yet again</i>. Even after all that he tried to kiss her again, reached to try and unbutton her pants again. Can a woman not expect to sit at a first-time date's house without getting felt up and kissed constantly? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">The victim blaming in relation to this case is just everywhere…the articles I’ve seen are unbelievable. How are we *still* having these discussions. Some of it perhaps, can be explained by a generational difference in perception. There's this idea that younger feminists are not tough enough, spoiled even. Feminists back in the day were fighting the 'real' fight, this is just shallow frivolous stuff now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">In seriousness though, one of the best responses I've seen to an accusation (not a perfectly comparable situation but one that is also 'not rape') is from Dan Harmon of the show Community who recorded a heartfelt apology on his podcast. </span></div>
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Here’s a weird one for you: Last week, I called out my former boss <a href="https://twitter.com/danharmon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@danharmon</a> for sexual harassment, and today I’m going to ask you to listen to his podcast. <a href="https://t.co/BEZAWH787V">https://t.co/BEZAWH787V</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Now Grace’s critics might also look at this situation and see something that required no apology, but in my opinion his words did a lot of good. It set a great example for something like this to be done again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Megan Ganz was a writer on the show that he had feelings for which soon became incredibly uncomfortable for her. Here are some quotes from his recorded apology below, which I think are especially significant in this climate. Too many people still insist that anything less than rape or Harvey Weinstein isn't worth discussing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">He used language like </span><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Attracted to a writer I had power over” </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>"….telling myself and anybody that threatened to confront me with it, that if you thought what I was doing was creepy or flirty or unprofessional, its because <b>you</b> were the sexist…”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Sounds familiar re: how the skeptosphere treats racism/sexism, It’s <b>you</b> who is the real sexist if you think women are victims. It’s <b>you</b> who is the real racist if you complain about racism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">(Interestingly it’s also like the twisted logic you hear a lot ex hijabis mention, how they once justified the modesty garment to themselves; "Women who don't wear hijabs are slaves to society/the patriarchy, who mould themselves according to the will of men." "Hijabs are liberating, feminist…a means of freeing yourself from the male gaze, from scrutiny over appearance, etc, if you don't wear one <b>you</b> are actually the oppressed one"… but no one really buys that kind of thinking deep down inside.. do they?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lyon Text, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium;">Yes we know Aziz isn't a monstrous rapist, but still this account does not paint him in a good light. It would be incredible to hear something like Dan Harmon's apology coming from him...something heartfelt, with no excuses. Something that calls out the articles and people hating on her. But that's usually not how things are handled in these situations, so I won't hold my breath. Harmon said he went against legal advice to talk about this openly. </span></div>
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Remember when we didn't need to discuss Nazis all the time? Like...back in the day...early 2016-2015. Good times, those were :(<br />
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So what's this big fuss over the <a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/us/ohio-hovater-white-nationalist.html?referer=https://t.co/jfW8Pf52XN"><span style="color: blue;">New York Times Nazi Article</span></a>? What's got everyone so upset? Are the Regressive Leftists being regressive again? God why can't they tolerate different ideas...<br />
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Did these lefty cucks really think an article would push people into being Nazis?<br />
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...While there <i>were</i> some (I didn't see too many tbh) people going overboard and calling the NYT a literal Nazi Sympathizing paper (like come on, I don't actually think they have a secret Nazi agenda), there were a lot of other good reasons to be disappointed with this article.<br />
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I'm wary of both ends of this too, carelessly throwing around the term Nazi *and* being overly defensive/underusing the term Nazi, even when it CLEARLY applies.<br />
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There are people who have accused me of being a 'Nazi sympathizer' because I have been critical of the hijab and niqab as a woman who had to live through 'modesty' enforced by the state in Saudi Arabia. You bet your ass I'm going to be critical...and it's not<i> at</i> <i>all</i> for the same xenophobic fear-mongering reasons most far-righters hate muslims/hijabs in this current climate....And then, there's the other side, where I'm surrounded by supposed 'Rational Skeptic' thinkers who are so 'anti-left' that downplaying Nazis is kind of their embarrassing trademark now. They will literally argue that someone shouting 'Heil Hitler' at a white nationalist speech is "not a Nazi" - because they aren't time-traveling from Nazi era Germany, you see...so technically they can't be Nazis.<br />
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— CHRISTMAS IS COMING🎄 (@Neobabylon2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Neobabylon2/status/927961247995318272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
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There are tons of examples of this type of ignorant nonsense from Rational Skeptics in the online Atheist scene. If you were to go by some of these commentator's timelines...there is apparently *no* problem with a rise of (neo) Nazis in Trumpian America. It's all just leftist hysteria. According to them, time is best spent arguing against those who refer to Richard Spencer as a Nazi....because he's not a time traveler... *eyeroll*<br />
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So while I agree, that there are definitely people who overuse the term, I'm also increasingly frustrated by people who downplay the danger of the far-right, who insist Nazis don't exist at all today, who pretend like this is still some fringe issue and not a growing movement with a President who has has created a welcoming space for them.<br />
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The rest of us, as reasonable humans, should try and exist between these two incredibly stupid and toxic extremes.<br />
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And with this article, it seemed that NYT was sort of playing the tune of the 'Nazi downplayers'...<br />
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Let me jump right into why I think the piece was not well received....In fact it was so badly received that the editor had to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/reader-center/readers-accuse-us-of-normalizing-a-nazi-sympathizer-we-respond.html">chime in</a> and explain wtf they were thinking. How the NYT put it in their headline, <i>"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Readers Accuse Us of Normalizing a Nazi Sympathizer; We Respond" </span></i>is a fairly accurate description of most of the criticism.<br />
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So while not <i>literally</i> Nazi sympathizing, but *normalizing* a Nazi sympathizer....I think that's fair...a case can be made for this article doing exactly that, whether it intended to or not.<br />
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There's also the fact that the writer of this now notorious piece also wrote an <i>additional</i> piece about how he knew it was missing something, and how he could <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/insider/white-nationalist-interview-questions.html"><span style="color: blue;">'</span></a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/insider/white-nationalist-interview-questions.html"><span style="color: blue;">feel the failure'</span></a> </span>because he didn't get to the heart of why this Nazi turned to his vile belief system. It read like an excuse, something else to pin the colossal failure of this article on, other than the awfulness of the piece itself. I can tell he had enough to write a better piece on this very subject just by reading what he put out. And come on, if you're writing to explain your article and saying you could feel the failure, then I think you've conceded that it was pretty bad.<br />
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> "Nazi next door" article appears to have basic factual problems, too <a href="https://t.co/EKGTsvemJn">https://t.co/EKGTsvemJn</a> <a href="https://t.co/fpRvrVpA6X">pic.twitter.com/fpRvrVpA6X</a></div>
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So much went wrong here.<br />
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--And it's not that I don't understand what was being attempted. I know this kind of piece, and it can indeed be done very well...the juxtaposition of horrific genocidal beliefs with mundane snippets of everyday existence. There is something to that contrast for sure...but there has to be an actual, proper contrast for that to work. It won't work if it's heavy on the minor details of what everyone was wearing and eating but glosses over the, ya know...genocidal beliefs part. That's when it becomes lopsided..and people start to wonder wtf you were even trying to do, if not a cushy profile?<br />
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There also has to come a point where the article serves a purpose beyond describing what the nazis were wearing/eating/having on their wedding registry. It should inform us in some way? Tell us something about the movement and radicalization process...other than making the Nazi grievances seem legit.<br />
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<i>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px;">His faith in mainstream solutions slipped as he toured the country with one of the metal bands. “I got to see people who were genuinely hurting,” he said. “We played coast to coast, but specifically places in Appalachia, and a lot of the Eastern Seaboard had really been hurt.”"</span></i><br />
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This type of article done properly, delves into the extremist's beliefs and frames them in a way that no borderline-nazis reading, could mistake for free promotion. It lets the subject hang himself by his own words, so to speak... but it doesn't jump immediately from him saying *Hitler was chill* to sympathetically telling his story about how society is not fair to him, and what his dream fascist-utopia would look like...punctuated with cute details about Cherry pie tattoos and wedding planning.<br />
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I mean yeah, of course I understand the need to humanize evil, and to show us that it doesn't come in the shape of an unrelatable monster, it can live, breathe and walk amongst us in the form of our neighbours, coworkers, teachers, friends, etc.<br />
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That's an important message...it's just that this article failed to deliver it.<br />
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There is a line between 'humanize' and 'sanitize'...the same line exists between whether one is journalistically exploring an extremist subject or providing a glossy advert for them. This is the difference between Louis Theroux and Dave Rubin (alt-right propagandist) for example. Louis can explore all manner of disturbing extremist subjects but people don't assume he is sympathetic to them because of the way he frames those stories. Dave on the other hand enters his interviews with a clear agenda of wanting the extremists to present their best side, while talking shit about The Left with them.<br />
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Now, I don't think this NYT piece was like Dave Rubin sanitizing 'migrants are cockroaches' 'we need a final solution' Katie Hopkins bad....There was better intent behind it and it just didn't work out, I want to make that clear. Dave's is an intentional sanitization, this was a poor job of framing the article which resulted in what appeared to be a normalizing effect.<br />
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When you are trying to show that evil exists among us and goes to Applebee's just like us...then actually position the piece in that way. Then the absurdity of combining white supremacist ideology with a causal turkey sandwich will perhaps even be entertaining. But the <i>key</i> is you make it clear that you are trying to demonstrate how banal evil can be...<br />
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If done well, this kind of piece can be very effective. The 'banality of evil' genre isn't a write off...but you've got to get the tone right. Don't approach Nazism as if it's a mere cultural curiosity. Don't do it in a way that it serves no purpose other than simply boosting a white supremacist signal out into the world...on a popular, respected mainstream outlet - Because *that* could potentially embolden <i>more</i> borderline white nationalists in this particular white power-y climate....they'll see that they're getting such a fuzzy profile which isn't really demonizing them at all. One that's in fact helping to mainstreamize them! See guys, their hopes and dreams are just like ours! They have muffin tins on their wedding registries! They talk about having kids too! Aww...<br />
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Nazis *love* <a href="http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/charlottesville-rally-unite-the-right-media-coverage-1202525825/">mainstream media coverage</a>, so at least try to do it in a way that makes them not love it?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/18/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-florida-free-speech">“I love mainstream liberals. Those are my favorite journalists.”</a> </i>- Richard Spencer </span><br />
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If you're going to give someone space to say 'Hitler was chill' ffs, the next paragraph better be something to balance that <i>and</i> signal to others like him that this ideology is not tolerated. The shiny new Nazism of 2017 isn't some rare ornament that you can report on in a detached manner...it's a pretty urgent issue we're facing in the west, lives have been lost. Pieces on this subject without a sense of urgency <i>or</i> a sense of purpose <i>will</i> cause people to question the motives of such a project.<br />
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Picture this same type of article featuring a Jihadist or an Islamist.. the same people whining that The Left wants audiences spoonfed basic facts like 'Nazis are bad' would themselves be outraged.<br />
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Not an exact comparison, but this situation reminds me of the time a ridiculous Asim Qureshi of CAGE referred to ISIS murderer Jihadi John as <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jihadi-john-mohammed-emwazi-was-an-extremely-kind-gentle-beautiful-young-man-says-cage-director-10073338.html">'a beautiful man'</a>, and people were rightfully appalled. Now obviously he wasn't referring to the ISIS version of the guy as beautiful, but rather the guy he knew in the past. But *still* wtf was he thinking saying that about a beheader?<br />
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Similarly, its not that people need to be spoonfed the position that Nazis are bad, but they are just appalled that someone with genocidal beliefs and sympathies for a monster like Hitler can be portrayed in such a soft lens.<br />
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People are understandably sensitive about how vile ideologies and their adherents are portrayed.<br />
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You just can't be downplaying this kind of thing....The Asim Qureshi thing was a sentence, but imagine the outrage if he was profiling a Jihadi for a known publication...and he focused on his wedding plans, and on the fact that he didn't see himself as a jihadist, just someone fighting for freedom for his family, the kinds of sandwiches they shared and didn't address the elephant in the room, that woah those are some very fucked up and dangerous beliefs.<br />
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The most upsetting thing to people is that this story ran in a climate where nazis are becoming emboldened by the day. Where the US president is inspiring them and is unable to properly condemn them. This article came across cold and with no comment on the victims of this ideology. Despite mentioning Charlottesville, there was no sympathy for Heather Heyer. They literally included a link to where you can purchase a swastika armband ffs. WHYYY.<br />
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Now, I personally enjoy the use of absurd and comedic tactics to combat extremism, It's why I liked the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHGgv6p7uVI"><span style="color: blue;">real housewives of ISIS</span></a> skit...it's why I enjoy Contrapoints' channel, especially her older videos involving bedazzling swastikas on her chest....it's why we've done <a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/fascistfashion"><span style="color: blue;">two episodes</span></a> together on a strangely specific topic like '<a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/fascistfashion2"><span style="color: blue;">Fascist Fashion</span></a>'. I absolutely think theres a way to talk about a Nazi's food preferences and make it valuable and entertaining. But it has to add something, it has to have a point...and the point can't just be detailing the kinds of sandwiches they eat. The article seems incomplete...like there could have been a useful point made afterwards but there just wasn't and the writer stopped at minor food details.<br />
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Ok, so he eats at Applebee's and? This could have been a piece about the tactics they use to mainstreamize their views and almost appear normie, but it wasn't. Heck this could have even been a piece about how Nazis consume the same pop culture as us and the cognitive dissonance behind that... it could have been a 'how to spot signs'....but instead it really served no purpose at all.<br />
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So here we start with how polite and 'low-key' he is, aww....he's literally the Nazi sympathizer next door...what a 'wholesome' image. And then we actually hear a tiny sprinkling of his vile views...almost as if they slipped in by accident to ruin his nazi-next-door image. No worries, the writer jumps straight to his cutesie cherry pie pop-culture tattoos because we can't dwell on the uncomfortable vile beliefs too long for some reason...<br />
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And it ends on a note of them sharing their hopes and dreams like any other couple (exactly how it began), woven badly with a quick mention of Charlottesville. And what. is. with. the. food. obsession. in. this. article? Turkey sandwiches, muffin pans, Applebees, Pasta.<br />
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The irony here is really something. Gad Saad & Jordan Peterson were on a Free Speech panel last weekend, (at an event that was previously cancelled) where this time <i>they</i> actually justified having someone uninvited, de-platformed even, from a SACRED...<br />
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In a hilariously hypocritical twist <b>these</b> Politically Correct Regressives were trying to justify silencing a 'different viewpoint' just last weekend.<br />
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Nevermind the person they uninvited was probably well worth uninviting (in my cucked leftist opinion) as she was the Rebel Media 'Journalist' Faith Goldy who appeared on the Neo Nazi <a href="http://www.canadalandshow.com/faith-goldy-gone-rebel/"><span style="color: blue;">Daily Stormer affiliated Podcast</span></a> after Charlottesville.<br />
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How do people with such associations and endorsements think they get off for disinviting someone for associating with <i>better known</i> Nazis/White Nationalists? Speaking of 'guilt by association', you'll never guess what Gad had to say about Faith Goldy:<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Well well well, in this situation...Gad thinks you are who you hang around with </span><span style="text-align: center;">...that doesn't mean good things for him now, does it - as someone who's literally called a <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2017/04/25/leading-european-anti-muslim-activist-denies-holocaust/"><span style="color: blue;">holocaust denier</span></a> a "Viking Heroine". Or is this standard selectively applied?</span><br />
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First point I'd like to make is, that it's disturbing how softly they all tiptoe around someone they themselves <i>just mentioned </i>was on a Neo-Nazi affiliated Podcast after the Charlottesville tragedy. None of the panelists are able to disavow her. </div>
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Instead it goes something like this;</div>
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Peterson: ....She was associating with people who’s views she should have questioned.</span> </i>(Well, that's putting it mildly, Dr P.)</div>
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Peterson goes on to talk about how she should have asked some hard questions but then immediately backtracks and starts making excuses for why she didn’t challenge any views on the nazi podcast. You know who else went on a nazi podcast and didn't ask any really tough questions right?<br />
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Jordan Peterson himself.<br />
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In fact he's criticizing, leftist, postmodernists, "neo-marxists" in most of that conversation and even claims to the *neo-Nazi woman* he's conversing with that "their aim is to shake the foundations of western civilization to the core" - just imagine sitting with a Nazi and dumping on leftists as destroying western civilization, then going on to deplatform someone else for appearing on a nazi podcast while not asking tough questions.<br />
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Now back to the video where he's explaining why they deplatformed Faith Goldy:<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Peterson: ....its more difficult than you might think when you’re facing people , even if u don’t believe them, to be rude enough to challenge them. </span></i></div>
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Just take a minute to let that sink in… JBP who is furious with liberals, postmodernists and SJWs <i>all the time,</i> thinks its hard to be rude enough to challenge ppl on a nazi podcast. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">“...that’s not so easy, especially if you’re an agreeable person”</span> </i>continues Jordan </div>
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...as they sit next to Gad Saad who’s done a glossy softball interview with several white genociders and even a holocaust denier.</div>
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Gad says in his explanation to the audience, <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">“…there is also a pragmatism right, you may decide you’re all for freedom of speech BUTTTTT </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[emphasis mine] </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">that doesn’t mean that you invite to the dinner party someone who’s views you don’t agree with… </span></span>(isn't this pretty much what people's argument has been against shutting you and your selective free-speech friends down in the past?)</div>
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And then he immediately softens the blow by jumping to<i> <span style="color: #0b5394;">“I..I’m not saying that was the case with Goldy”</span></i><br />
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<i>[Yeah heaven forbid Gad, that you do the decent thing and come out against her views openly, without hesitation, at the first go after knowing she went on Daily Stormer related media for a friendly conversation.]</i></div>
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Here's Gad on Free Speech when it's not being applied to people *he* wants de-platformed:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guess him an his pals are fascist castratos, by this standard....because guess who used a but clause. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sounds like you, wanting someone de-platformed from a Free Speech event, Gad.</td></tr>
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">“So the fact that you might for some event decide to disassociate from that person doesn’t suggest that you are being hypocritical to freedom of speech”</span> —— LOL except you’ve literally been outraged at people about this same thing before…you hypocrite!! You didn't just personally disassociate from her, you wanted her de-platformed from a free speech event. </i></div>
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And here's Jordan, unable to stand for his own actions...."I didn't say we were correct". Let's face it, these guys were a mess. Maybe now they will think about why it is that people don't want to associate with them, for 'pragmatic' reasons... or with Milo. </div>
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Seeing the corner he'd backed himself into by palling around with and sucking up to white genociders, white nationalists, holocaust deniers and general alt lite/right figures, made me feel quite sad for the man who had in the past instigated pile-ons on me, and tweeted angrily about me for days for just pointing out his evident shady associations...."for pragmatic reasons", you know. </div>
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Because you know....refugees = automatic anti-Semite, cuz Muslim. That's not bigoted at all...its interesting that his anger was directed always at refugees for potential anti-semitism, but never once directed at the many far right figures he's promoted. </div>
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Hopefully people will start to see through their many hypocrisies and double standards, but maybe that's a lot to ask of alt-right/lite friendly audiences. I mean some of these fans willingly refer to themselves as "Gadfellas" and make religious artwork for Peterson....which he tweets unironically of course. </div>
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<br />Eiynahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347528710695523104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731703290032072857.post-63467707311952617252017-09-13T09:20:00.000-07:002017-09-13T10:30:37.758-07:00Forbidden Intersectionality: Liberal + (Ex) MuslimSome of you may have seen my interview on <a href="http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2524-im-liberal-ex-muslim-this-my-life.html"><span style="color: blue;">Cracked</span></a> recently. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak on a larger platform. Below is a blogpost thats basically an extension of my thoughts from there:<br />
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Being of Muslim background in the West right now...in this Trumpian, 'rising far right' era is tough enough as it is....but being a secular, non-religious person of Muslim background is a whole other level of fucked up at the moment...<br />
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<i>So</i> many of us thought there weren't others like us, questioning Islam, questioning conservatism in our communities...because these things just aren't talked about. The risks are too great especially if you're living in a Muslim majority country like Pakistan or Saudi Arabia (the two places I've lived).<br />
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And when, through the internet, we found each other....us secular/agnostic/atheist types of Muslim background were just <i>so relieved</i> that there <i>were</i> others...that there was a growing voice for us...that we banded together on something that doesn't tell you much about a person's values: rejecting/challenging religion.<br />
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Now...as the political climate changes in the West, we see the cracks in the ex/reformist Muslim movement more obviously than ever. There are those of us who were coming at it from the angle of opposing conservatism, rightwingery whatever form it may take, and others who were specifically only opposing Islam. As a result the people who prioritize opposing Islam alone, are happy now to side with the Western right. Some even going as far as joining anti-Muslim movements, the alt-right, supporting Trump, etc.<br />
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Back in the old country, expressing doubt about religion or challenging cultural boundaries can mean serious consequences. At the very least resulting in alienation and being ostracized, disowned, ex communicated (we are not free from this consequence in the West either) ....and at worst it means things like blasphemy accusations, death. So I do understand where the anger and bitterness some have is coming from (I don't excuse it, but I can see what created it).<br />
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This taboo and loneliness surrounding Islamic apostasy is also why finding others simply to align with you on this <i>one thing </i>feels so big, that almost nothing else matters.<br />
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However, as more and more of us come out and express ourselves, we begin to see the diversity among Islam's apostates too.<br />
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<i>Still</i> we are often lumped in as one, and even at times put on an unnecessary pedestal in the western atheist scene when discussing Islam. I hate to be the one to say it, but ex-Muslims can be wrong in their assessments and opinions of Islam too, like anyone else. And if they are allying with the Dave Rubin's and <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kekistan">Kekistanis</a> of this world then it's increasingly important to see beyond the 'ex Muslim = they're infallible when it comes to speaking about Islam' view. Ex-Muslims too can overshoot in their criticism or overreact, tainting a movement that began with thoughtful critique.<br />
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Yes the stigma and risks that come with apostasy in Islam are high and frightening. I'm a living example of how high the stakes are, I have to work under a pseudonym to feel safe.<br />
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But at the same time, it's important to keep in mind that things aren't <i>always</i> that intolerant and there are all types of people in countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia too, people who are struggling to be heard - further silencing them with generalizations is not only unjust but also counterproductive if reducing extremism is the goal. Liberal, accepting-of-apostasy Muslim families <i>do</i> exist there, but sadly in small numbers. It is voices from those minorities that need to be empowered...but so rarely are.<br />
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Instead, the narrative that Muslims are always conservative rules the airwaves in the West, be it left or right leaning media.<br />
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Yes...there are crazy mullahs saying ridiculous, vile, intolerant things (often focused on by the right) ....and yes there are hijabi women who need our solidarity (often focused on by the left), but Muslim existence isn't limited to these simple caricatures - yet most representation of them is (and no, I'm not drawing a moral equivalence between vile intolerant mullahs and peaceful conservative Muslim women who wear a headscarf).<br />
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It's been incredibly hard to break that mould...and the few instances of people trying to represent the more secular, liberal types of Muslim existence are met with a huge amount of resistance from all across the political spectrum. I mean....we already have so much to deal with from within the community, that tacking on these external battles, simply for a foothold... for a place to say <i>"I'm here, and I exist"</i>...are disheartening and exhausting.<br />
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As an ex-Muslim, I still very much consider myself a part of the Muslim community - like any secular Jew or Christian would consider themselves connected through culture, shared history, family, holidays, etc. Never before has my need to identify and stand in solidarity with the Muslim community felt more pronounced, than in a time Muslim registries and Muslim bans are casually being spoken of in mainstream discourse. </div>
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Three years ago I wrote and illustrated an anti-homophobia children’s book set in Pakistan, called <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.buzzfeed.com/imaansheikh/pakistans-first-childrens-book-on-lgbtq?utm_term%3D.prVE7dPGQ%23.nskpdlYEJ&source=gmail&ust=1504973155078000&usg=AFQjCNFXaQFQy-yhOsBWSg4gN68GhsHUJQ" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/imaansheikh/pakistans-first-childrens-book-on-lgbtq?utm_term=.prVE7dPGQ#.nskpdlYEJ" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">My Chacha (uncle) is Gay</a> (you can get a copy <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://chachaisgay.com/&source=gmail&ust=1504973155078000&usg=AFQjCNHd7heeYe1v6mMn53SSDknrlnjU2g" href="http://chachaisgay.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>).</div>
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<i>"I was delighted when it got picked up by some schools in the Toronto area and was used as a resource for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://dayofpink.org/&source=gmail&ust=1504973155078000&usg=AFQjCNFBec5Q-wa_q2i5CxD7MVyfOVwYFQ" href="http://dayofpink.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Day of Pink</a> (which is an anti bullying initiative)." </i></div>
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The most amusing comments called me 'Satan’s daughter' or compared my children's book's evilness -evels to that of Salman Rushdie’s notorious Satanic Verses! I am not worthy, but I’ll take the compliment with pride.<br />
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<i>"Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) published a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://isnalanterns.com/2014/04/i-got-bullied-by-the-school-board-on-pink-day/&source=gmail&ust=1504973155078000&usg=AFQjCNE0GWpKexsQaBnft5sdHx3XXSfVEg" href="http://isnalanterns.com/2014/04/i-got-bullied-by-the-school-board-on-pink-day/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">blog</a> post claiming that the school board was the one bullying parents into teaching their kids about LGBT diversity. I was branded an ‘Islamophobe’ and that was it - a resource that many children/teachers enjoyed and found useful was no longer available."</i><br />
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When Muslim communities have problems with integration or accepting values like being LGBT positive, the way to tackle that would be precisely through such resources. But often in the face of accusations of Islamophobia even books about love and tolerance are tossed out as controversial. It's the kids who lose out the most.<br />
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Just recently, a conservative Islamic lecturer discovered my book and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.facebook.com/haqiqatjou/posts/1981630455389000&source=gmail&ust=1504973155078000&usg=AFQjCNGZP0ATpKwHqbPRkdyOLpHSWe5CyA" href="https://www.facebook.com/haqiqatjou/posts/1981630455389000" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">posted</a> about it's 'evil agenda', sending a fresh new batch of threats and haters my way.<br />
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Having few and mild opinions about the Western far-right is appreciated by many in the audience that will inevitably be drawn to you for your criticism of Islam. They usually tell you to stfu about Trump ...and accuse you of Taqqiya (an obscure concept in Islam which I only heard about in the West) if you don't, because they want to get to the 'good stuff'...the part where you confirm their ideas about generalizing Muslim immigrants, and act as a shield from accusations of bigotry.<br />
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We-ell thats not gonna happen with me....and I can't seem to keep quiet about Dave Rubin and Gad Saad, Peterson, Shermer...I certainly won't be going on Breitbart or Rebel Media to talk about how there's no place for Islam on the planet. So.....that leaves me walking a rather lonely path....and as you can read in my tweet above, often has me wondering what my place is in all this. If it's even worth it to try and counter the avalanche of bs, that seems to be coming from within the ex-Muslim movement...bs like, 'Islam can't be reformed', 'there's no place for it on the planet', 'Islam is worse than Nazism.'<br />
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The waters are so muddied, that the term really does more harm than good. Allowing any criticism of Islamic fundamentalism, homophobia, etc. to be labelled as 'Islamophobia', gives right wing fundamentalist Muslims a chance to shield the religion from valid criticism. It's essentially the same thing as right wing Christians trying to shield <i>their</i> religion from criticism. Think of the absurdity of the 'War on Christmas' to get a feel for how 'Islamophobia' sounds to us. That's why I prefer the more precise term, 'anti-Muslim bigotry'. The problem is not theological criticisms of Islam or criticisms of literalist interpretations, it is the generalizations, hatred and fear-mongering around <i>Muslims</i>. <br />
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Seeing the confusion surrounding this, the Western far-right swoops in to claim that "Islamophobia" isn't real even when its being used to describe blatant anti-Muslim bigotry. The cries of "Islam is not a race", while technically true...ring hollow in a climate where brown people are targeted based on their skin colour and appearance. <br />
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The Hijab is a hot topic, both within Muslim circles and outside. Well-meaning Western liberals tend to overcompensate in their desire to make Muslims feel accepted and can end up championing conservatism from our communities. This is particularly tricky now, because Muslim women <i>are</i> in actuality being attacked for their modesty garments. So in the West, it's not exactly on the same footing as opposing something like a Christian purity ball or virginity pledge - though it largely comes from the same place and regard for women. <br />
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As a woman who grew up in a theocracy, Saudi Arabia, I was forced to wear modesty garments by the state and have encountered "morality police" on several occasions. I have seen them hit my mother's ankle with a cane for letting her headscarf slip. The memories are not pleasant.<br />
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So...for me, it's rather <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/jun/24/hijab-not-oppression-feminist-statement-video">distasteful</a> to see the constant <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/world-hijab-day-1.3961289">celebration of modesty garb</a>. It leaves me feeling very isolated from my fellow liberals, who I assumed would stand with me in opposing body-shaming of women in my culture too. Simultaneously, I can understand that it has become hard to oppose a garment that is causing women to be targeted.<br />
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My personal solution to this is that I stand in solidarity with hijab and niqab wearing Muslims when it comes to bigots singling them out because they are visibly Muslim. <i>But</i> I still vehemently oppose the concept of a requirement for women to cover up so as not to invoke lust.<br />
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Both things can and should be done together. One can show solidarity with hijabis without championing the hijab as some great symbol of liberation, which it clearly isn't, as many Muslim girls and women continue to be forced into modesty against their will.<br />
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There is so much noise around supporting the hijab that non hijabi Muslim women are drowned out. This results in a very one dimensional coverage, that yet again perpetuates the stereotype that 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'conservative Muslim'. Even <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/living/playboy-hijabi-woman-trnd/index.html">Playboy Magazine</a> isn't immune to this and had to get in on the hijab celebration!<br />
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Another example of this misguided support is the Shepard Fairey poster from the Women's March.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">n admittedly powerful, iconic poster of a woman in a US flag hijab was displayed as part of a series. It was seen as a symbol of resistance, as the 'anti-Trump'. But it's hard for women like me to get behind one form of conservative symbolism to oppose another form of conservatism. So I created some artwork accompanied by a </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/hijab-glorification-thoughts-on-the-shepard-fairey-poster">short audio message</a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">explaining that we do indeed need to show solidarity with hijabi Muslim women, but perhaps this wasn't the best method since there are many connotations to such a garment, not all </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/20/muslim-woman-veil-hijab&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNHxh7NrOz9wK5XFXFa3vgPFZfnsXw" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/20/muslim-woman-veil-hijab" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">positive</a><span style="color: #222222;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite my clearly liberal sentiments and disclaimers that it was not to be used by people spreading hate towards Muslims, despite my opposition to Trump expressed in the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/hijab-glorification-thoughts-on-the-shepard-fairey-poster&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNGf3ctbMqbrvYGfwTR_J8TjkfIaZA" href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/hijab-glorification-thoughts-on-the-shepard-fairey-poster" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">audio message</a> the post was widely retweeted by Trump fan accounts as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seems there's almost nothing we can do to prevent this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Either you suffer in silence under the homophobic, misogynistic Islamic far-right, or you risk emboldening the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant Western one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In fact both LGBT and women's rights in Islamic countries are causes appropriated by the Western far-right now. In Alt-Right/Lite circles, you'll see gay rights used as a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/06/05/how_alt_right_leaders_jack_donovan_and_james_o_meara_attract_gay_men_to.html&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNHYRh5U7BWzPEZxxTxNBDVKbCLd0g" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/06/05/how_alt_right_leaders_jack_donovan_and_james_o_meara_attract_gay_men_to.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">white nationalist tactic</a>, it's deeply concerning and sinister that an ideology so troubling can be dressed up as 'human rights'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">They use these things as a cudgel, a mere pretext to bash Muslims with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The trick is to express a faux-concern over these things not being up to par in the Islamic world, while having little regard for the same in your own part of the world. I cannot tell you how many Western anti-feminists champion women's rights when it comes to Islam, but will callously tell Western rape victims that they are privileged because at least they don't live under Sharia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether it's accusations of Islamophobia or fears of emboldening anti-Muslim hate, either way, we are silenced. Just like any culture we too should be able to criticize our own, without being branded sell-outs, traitors or Islamophobes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Except there is one problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this complex political climate there *is* an actual loss of credibility too, which I covered in my interview;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"As more and more <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/11/10/im-a-muslim-a-woman-and-an-immigrant-i-voted-for-trump/?utm_term%3D.db935830fa89&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNGt9F-9GZPpOf0pWj0BKpbcDyzggw" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/11/10/im-a-muslim-a-woman-and-an-immigrant-i-voted-for-trump/?utm_term=.db935830fa89" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Muslim Reformers</a>/<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/raheem-kassam-ukip?utm_term%3D.nfNmqa52v%23.xeNB9LX5k&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNFejAHm0Z38-fnzVnJwvAqKU_rk-A" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/raheem-kassam-ukip?utm_term=.nfNmqa52v#.xeNB9LX5k" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Ex Muslims</a> either get on the Trump Train, defend the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/879864086720204801&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNG3ZE07oZEDJWtLz8eKlJNCrxNK1A" href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/879864086720204801" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Muslim Ban</a> or join the Alt Right."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And on the left, secular, liberal Muslims continue to not be adequately represented. This tips the scales massively towards high-visibility of right-wing critics of Islam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well known Ex-Muslim Breitbart Editor, Raheem Kassam, has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/08/europe-today-american-tomorrow/&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNH-mwlK9p9KuJZMp5uaBcPee5KueA" href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/08/europe-today-american-tomorrow/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">said</a> things like <i>"If Merkel took a million rapey migrants, Hillary will take 20 million"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now I as an ex-Muslim can tell you, that this is not representative of *all* ex-Muslims obviously, and there are many compassionate, progressive people among us. But the movement has taken an undeniable rightward turn without many denouncing the bad actors that are nudging the movement further towards <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cartoonist-kills-off-pepe-the-frog-after-turned-into-hate-symbol-1.4105948&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNHBW3cfSFFG1ZRvMyY0kGXOUxlaIQ" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cartoonist-kills-off-pepe-the-frog-after-turned-into-hate-symbol-1.4105948" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Pepe</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I would urge my fellow liberals to not champion Islamic conservatism and I would urge my fellow ex-Muslims to not prove critics of the ex-Muslim and Islamic reform movements correct by allying with the Western right and supporting/downplaying things like the Muslim Ban. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This rightward shift of Islam critics has even produced a Trump-supporting, anti-multiculturalism <b>Imam</b>, would you believe it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Imam once put out an <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/876625854180188161&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNFAX5fdFcr2HE3LyJffZiKRuxEXQw" href="https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/876625854180188161" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">11-step plan</a> to crack down on Wahhabism, a literalist and harsh interpretation of Islam. It sounds reasonable in theory, but reads more like an authoritarian plan to put ordinary Muslims under strict surveillance. Australian media has dubbed him the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2017/04/11/4651763.htm&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNFFPx1vAHodXwDQ0UG1T1XooGEDiw" href="http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2017/04/11/4651763.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">'Fake Sheikh'</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He throws around terms like '<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/878177515675582464&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNFVuLeg1fNqa2uu5JRBCHBDC2Wmlg" href="https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/878177515675582464" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Fake News</a>' and '<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/873155727950397440&source=gmail&ust=1504973155080000&usg=AFQjCNEX5_QnXZ91r-K9PsNF5S3XjzMOrA" href="https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/873155727950397440" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Lying Left</a>' - reminiscent of Trump himself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope that one day, just like Sam Bee or The Daily Show, progressive Muslims can earnestly push for change without getting lumped in with or enticed by those with an anti-Muslim agenda. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Islam is not a monolith, neither are its adherents nor its critics. Just like Islam can be interpreted and practised in a million different ways so too can criticism of it come from different angles and politics. It's important to be aware of the general Trump-era anti-Muslim climate, but its also important not to erase the few secular, liberal and progressive Muslims that exist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I make these comparisons to the alt right so my fellow lefties who often (out of good intent to protect marginalized minorities) slip into romanticizing conservative Islam, can recognize this form of dishonest rightwingery too. Conservative Islam is just the stauncher, stricter sibling of Western conservatism. It deserves no protection and is a roadblock to progress, just like the far-right is in the West. Shielding the Islamic right from criticism and standing up against anti-muslim bigotry are two different things entirely...and the quicker the left can understand how to separate the two, the better equipped we will be to combat the Western far-right who exploit the left's confusion and weakness on this. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, enough of this great <a href="https://twitter.com/ViniKako/status/826887219168366592">friend and ally of Rubin</a>...back to the Al Jazeera piece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Are you <i>fucking</i> kidding me? How is this a real quote…one day you’re granting permission to cane women for not being modest enough, and another you’re granting a guy permission to add women to his marriage-harem, luxuries that are not afforded to women….and somehow you are a fucking *feminist pioneer*? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So...because you’re a woman who got a job as a judge....to help further <i>oppress</i> women under a disgustingly patriarchal religious system of governance…putting all that nasty stuff aside and focusing on the fact that you know…you got this 'high powered job' in a 'male dominated industry', obviously means you’re a <b><i>feminist shattering stereotypes</i></b> - this is very much from the Rubin playbook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Putting aside the content of his tweet” - surely you have seen Rubin's commentary where he asks to disregard the content of the atrocious thing in question, as he goes on to defend or downplay it in some way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Shariah-fauxminism is just a deeper shade of what PJW of Infowars peddles when he thinks ‘blocking' Marine le Pen is un-feminist. Let that sink in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href="https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/856149479434727424">April 23, 2017</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As if women HAVE to be on board with Marine le Pen's vile politics simply because she's a woman. Isn't PJW a critic of 'sjw' identity politics? I guess its ok to use the stupidest and simplest form of ID politics if it suits your far right agenda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In an interview with an anti-Semite who likes David Duke & Farrakhan ... Rubin calls liberals racists. <a href="https://t.co/Y0HLA1hN0Y">pic.twitter.com/Y0HLA1hN0Y</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #14171a;">Rubin claims liberals are *racist* for not liking Ben Carson (riiiight because the only reason they don’t like him must be his race - never mind the guy Rubin is actually speaking with here is a guy who </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKgEquQeK3k"><span style="color: blue;">blames slavery on blacks </span></a><span style="color: #14171a;">and says the Jews </span><a href="https://twitter.com/21logician/status/850073396180287491"><span style="color: blue;">chose the holocaust</span></a><span style="color: #14171a;">. This is a guy who goes on David Duke's show to say </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ViniKako/status/850115464592334848" style="color: blue;">vile things about Jews</a><span style="color: #14171a;">. And the 'real racism' that Rubin spots in all of this is liberals not accepting Ben Carson....because of his race. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's the same shallow twisted logic…from far-right apologists everywhere. They don’t really care about gender or racial equality but like to pretend they do. They appropriate the language of feminism and racial equality to use it for their own means. I've seen this before with Islamists, and I see this now with Rubin and other panderers to the alt right/lite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I have a long, lonely road ahead of me convincing fellow atheists that lean right, that PJW, Rubin, are advocating for the same bullshit that so many call out in right-wing muslims…and I have to simultaneously convince my fellow lefties that yes even though muslims are an increasingly persecuted minority, and we should stand against anti-muslim bigots every step of the way…that letting this kind of bs slide just fuels the fires of hate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's crazy the Al Jazeera piece describes this shariah judge as a feminist pioneer right? Surely all my fellow skeptics can see that! Well, guess how Rubin describes this guy Sotomayor, this friend of David Duke.....“A black man challenging stereotypes". *facepalm* doesn't quite cover it, eh? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Rubin himself would be happy to point out the stupidity of the Al Jazeera article, as would many of his fans...but point out the same ridiculousness on their side and you will promptly be shunned as a 'regressive' intolerant of 'diverse viewpoints'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drawing these parallels is important because it helps show the bad reasoning, similarities and flaws on both sides of the coin here. In both cases its people pandering to the far-right, and masquerading as ‘liberal’ …hijacking the language of liberals to push a far-right agenda. Be it Islamic or Western, it's the same BS in varying degrees. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"She made history in <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/malaysia.html"><span class="s2">Malaysia</span></a> last year when she was appointed one of the first two female Syariah (shariah) High Court judges in this Muslim-majority nation.”</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Woweee, she made HISTORY, she’s just a woman challenging stereotypes…right Rubin? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Look at this badass mommy of the year here….she isn’t shy or meek like people expect Muslim women to be….in fact she imposes some of the HARSHEST shariah punishments, hows that for bold and assertive? Hmph and they say Muslim women are subservient and oppressed. Here she is, oppressing the fuck out of others….and you’re gonna tell me she isn’t empowered. Puh-leez. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You hear that? She’s fair and UNbiased…if you don’t count the 7th century anti-woman bias inherent to shariah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I mean for fuck's sake…is this not something directly out of the handmaid’s tale? ...Where women are taking charge in roles that insure the subservience of women, and are being hailed as some weird-ass, backwards feminist icons for it? Fml. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"Malaysia appointed its first two female Syariah (shariah) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/world/asia/15iht-malay.html"><span class="s2">judges</span></a> in 2010. Now, 27 of the country's 160 Islamic court judges are women.”</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It reminds me of when the ethnostate advocates of the alt right <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/tila-tequilas-descent-into-nazism-is-a-long-time-coming?utm_term=.jj47m0o1w#.go5AwE4Qq">embraced Tila Tequila</a> (of Vietnamese origin) as a great person bringing 'diversity' and furthering their cause (their anti-diversity cause, that is.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The level of pretzelbrain it takes to think that a gender balance in people 'fucking women over' is a good thing is beyond me. You know, the morality police industry is far too male-dominated, we really need some gender balance among those who whip women for immodesty. -___-</span><br />
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Misunderstanding Bill C-16 for $55,000 a month</div>
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Ah...Jordan B. Peterson - I remember a time when I had no idea who that was, and my life was better for it.</div>
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Who is this guy? Well...For those unfamiliar he is a ‘controversial’ conservative university professor, in my own progressive city *sigh*....at University of Toronto.</div>
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He's your average conservative Christian, with an added dose of hardcore gobbledygook with the audacity to criticize postmodernists for the same. Step aside Deepak Chopra! There's a new snake oil salesman in town. And this time he's smuggling in extreme conservatism AND atheists love him. Apparently one of the *most requested* guests of all time on Sam Harris' podcast! Their conversations were adversarial to be clear, but still Peterson was in great demand by Sam's audience. So much so, that there were two episodes featuring him.<br />
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Should <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson">@jordanbpeterson</a> and I do a second podcast in which we attempt to discuss religion, atheism, ethics and other topics?</div>
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Gosh, remember when the atheist scene used to ridicule charlatans like Deepak instead of embrace them as some of our favourite intellectuals simply because they ‘trigger’ libtards, and dump on trans people, ‘the left’ and feminism - all the favourite bogeymen of the internet atheist movement! ...resulting in this strange alliance with a man who literally <a href="https://youtu.be/YnEFt20qe0o?t=12m33s">brought himself to tears while reading his own essay which mentioned ‘a loss of faith’</a>. </div>
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It really amazes me that he criticizes flowery 'postmodernist' language for much of the same type of nonsense that comes out of his own mouth. He rose to fame last year when he had an unbelievable temper tantrum about Ontario’s Bill C-16 somehow taking away his freedoms by protecting trans people from discrimination. He’s been <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://torontoist.com/2016/12/are-jordan-petersons-claims-about-bill-c-16-correct/"><span style="color: blue;">shown </span></a> </span>to be misrepresenting the law, but his popularity only grows in this climate where facts hold little value, and anything of substance is dubbed 'fake news'.</div>
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Peterson has no qualms associating with people on the far far right...he even appeared on a nazi's podcast. A woman who has literally advocated violence against people of colour refusing to leave the hypothetical ethnostate. </div>
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He may very well not be aware of all her views, but googling someone or looking at their social media is the least you can do before appearing on their show and lending them your legitimacy as a professor. If you are this blinded by your hatred of The Left that you're going on Nazi shows to talk about 'Western Civilization'...you probably should not be teaching kids. </div>
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As a critic of leftist mumbo-jumbo, its funny he describes the average university class as a <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-77NpxbE7k"><span style="color: blue;">postmodern neo-marxist indoctrination cult</span></a> </span>(h/t @somestingray). He wants to start his own online university scarily enough...He plans to '<i>cut off the supply to people running the indoctrination cults</i>', i.e., universities. And don't you worry... he's working on a way to differentiate between 'post modern course content' and 'classical course content'.</div>
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In a time where mainstream media institutions are being discredited by right wing nutjobs, so too are educational institutions. Now, hold on to your kekistani undies, I’m not saying there aren’t ever crazy instances on campus, I’m not saying never criticize universities or The Left. There’s plenty to criticize... but there’s no proportionality….this response, as in...idolizing Jordan Peterson the guy who’s somehow repackaged old school conservatism as something new and hip…as an antidote to 'the left gone wild, drunk on the power of premarital sex, immorality, independent career women and loss of faith'…I mean come on...I've heard this shit before...</div>
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And spare me the obvious - 'these are metaphors'… yes I know he’s not calling for literal child sacrifice. </div>
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Look I consulted with my ancestral spirits…and they warned me not to watch Jordan Peterson content…but silly lady-brain of mine.. didn’t listen. So here we are. </div>
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Now I’m trying to compile as much of JBP’s bs into one blogpost as I can tolerate sifting through in one sitting. For someone sooooo upset about his free speech allegedly being taken away over bill c-16, he certainly doesn’t extend that courtesy to other groups. </div>
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Here he is in 2011 discussing how atheists aren’t an oppressed or excluded group in the west, perhaps even dominant, and how he’s not a fan of atheist advertising. An Ad on a bus pissed him off ffs, meanwhile calling people what they want to be called is a violation of his rights. Full video of his ad chat <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48V0m2lia5U">here</a> </span></div>
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maybe <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins">@RichardDawkins</a> should be oppressed <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson">@jordanbpeterson</a> <a href="https://t.co/MiaGNIosA3">pic.twitter.com/MiaGNIosA3</a></div>
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<i>"If you don’t have any faith in an ultimate authority that says life is sacred, what’s to stop you from mobilizing everything you can to kill as many people as you can…." </i>That's real original Jordan. </div>
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In his two hour conversation with Sam Harris he couldn’t really define 'truth'. He is basically the religious conservative version of what he criticizes re:postmodernism. Dislikes the pronoun Xir because apparently thats just leftist nonsense….but can’t decide on what truth means. </div>
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Just a quick glance at his Twitter timeline will show that he posts bs memes of his own gibberish quotes..and people love it!<br />
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But I'm a hero of the deplorables; those beyond redemption: Kekistanis, Pepe memers, alt-right Nazis: all the boogeymen of the radical left. <a href="https://t.co/E4DfP2lq2A">https://t.co/E4DfP2lq2A</a></div>
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Pepe: SJW/Hitler/Jew/Trump/Clinton: who is this symbol satirizing? THE VIEWER. <a href="https://t.co/Fv9L45lpaE">pic.twitter.com/Fv9L45lpaE</a></div>
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I honestly can’t understand…has the human population become this dumbed down? Is this reflective of a failure of our education systems?…that people hear a string of multi-syllabic words and are immediately wowed/lulled into some sort of illusion that they are smarter than they thought? His fans also have a habit of saying “but you haven’t heard ALL his lectures… if you had, what he was saying would make sense” - come on. Surely something of his has to be able to stand on it’s own. </div>
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Peterson is a top earner on Patreon making over <b><u>55K</u></b> *a month* (remember this number) last time I checked…which he’s planning to use to launch an online university, to influence more young minds into his way of thinking. </div>
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He also has some very disturbing ideas about sex. In his mind the left <i>encourages </i>‘sexual predation’ by saying that sex is for pleasure and you can have it when you want…we should allow any form of sexual expression and not discriminate against any of them. But at the SAME TIME they want to jail men who make unwanted sexual advances. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This young mom is the face of Mormonism's Hateful Alt Right. Full article <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/31/this-young-mom-is-the-face-of-mormonisms-hateful-alt-right/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></span></div>
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LMAO Peterson, you nutjob. If someone just says this shit in Urdu or Arabic, it will be no different than the mullahs who are afraid of women being empowered and independent. More polished sure, but he is a professor at one of Toronto’s best universities after all. This is an embarrassment. I mean, he should be far off from Mullah-rhetoric, not spouting essentially polished versions of the anti-woman turds that come out of their mouths. Having babies isn’t the only thing that gives women meaning, purpose or happiness in their lives, you absolute dinosaur. And there are other forms of relationships out there. My <i>dad</i> is way more progressive than you, and I’m certain he’s a lot older..heck so is my granddad. </div>
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Sexism isn’t real because bad things happen to everyone, and we are no longer lifting rocks. So quit yer whining cultural marxist feminists….do what you were actually put here to do and fulfill your life’s role, make some babies…otherwise what are you even doing with your life. Money sucks (for you), positions of power are way too hard (for you ladies). K thanks bye. Donate to my patreon. </div>
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Before immigrating to Canada, I never really felt attached to a particular land. I didn’t grow up having a sense of nationality to anchor my identity to. My parents left my motherland, Pakistan, long ago. They birthed and raised us in another country (Saudi Arabia) that made sure to tell us we were outsiders, that our rights differed greatly from ‘real Saudis’, and that even being born there didn’t change that. </div>
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We existed in a sort of limbo. Though my siblings and I visited Pakistan frequently - being raised elsewhere left us feeling like aliens in our country of origin. Our upbringing in westernized Saudi compounds for expats...left us neither here nor there. There was nowhere we actually felt like we <i>belonged</i>, and this is a story you’ll hear from many third culture kids of the South Asian diaspora, especially those who found themselves in the Middle East. </div>
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Canada gave us a place to put down roots. We were *home*….We felt welcomed, and part of a beautiful, inclusive & diverse culture. </div>
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I’ve never been one to feel overly nationalistic, since I’ve never really had a strong national identity before. But when I hear the Canadian anthem, I confess to tearing up almost every time…because finally…I’m home.</div>
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My illustrations below are a nod to the immigrant experience. So many wonderful communities make up Canada today - that’s what makes it truly special. With the rise of the alt right, the far right…especially in Canada, with anti immigrant sentiment growing & the hysteria around Bill C-16, I feel it’s important to stress themes of diversity and inclusivity.</div>
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The Manchester attack targeted <i><b>children</b></i> while they were out having fun, enjoying music, enjoying life... </div>
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I sit here and try to absorb all the fragmented commentary coming from all angles, trying to make sense of this, trying to understand how we can change it for the better. How do we stop this from happening? I don’t know.. because the terrorists motivations seem to lie in a tangled web of things, parts of which each side wants to deny. The most obvious of those is extreme blind faith in an ideology they consider to be infallible. </div>
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The left though well intentioned, nor the right, theists, nor atheists - no one is hitting notes (on this subject) that deeply resonate with me anymore. It’s pretty much the same tired commentary, the same motions we go through after each terror attack. </div>
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It’s obvious this is a problem that needs to be addressed, denying links to Islam as people shout Allahu-akbar and take lives just doesn't suffice. It’s not helping <i>anyone</i>, least of all muslims. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><b>'The Nothing to do with Islam’ chorus </b>- I get it, it’s a reflex to distance either yourself (if you’re muslim) or an already persecuted minority from the worst, most violent people among them. But as all the liberal/muslim defenders of the religion will tell you, Islam is not a monolith. There are many people, majority of muslims in fact who manage to ignore or ‘re-interpret’ the same verses that drive the terrorists to kill. Why then does it all of a sudden become a monolith with boundaries that exclude terrorists when convenient? You simply cannot deny that those verses too come from the same religion. Just a different interpretation…if you start defining ISIS as ‘not real muslims’ you are playing <i>their</i> game. This is essentially what they do to dehumanize muslims that aren’t living up to their barbaric 7th century standards. The defensiveness and the desperation to distance terrorists from the religion that they themselves claim inspires them, makes defenders appear intellectually dishonest or in deep denial. In order to see the whole picture we cannot keep hiding from the fact that </span><b style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">religion has a major role to play in religious extremism</b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">. There </span><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">is</i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> hatred of music, hatred of women, of LGBT, of non-muslims coming from Islamic scripture, and theres no way you can modernize, reform or improve things if you at the very least don’t acknowledge that this problem exists. Fine…say this is not how <b>you</b> read it, but you can’t deny that the raw material exists for others to interpret in more violent ways. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">What kind of a person thinks thats a fucking good idea..? I mean of course Tommy Robinson was all over that. I don’t think it necessarily says anything about her sympathies or affiliations, as it appears to be a widely available </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">but I mean the optics of this on a hipster kid and on a niqabi talking about extremism on TV after an *islamic* *terror* *attack* are completely different. Of course people are going to draw conclusions about what she was thinking. It might very well be that she foolishly thought it was a good ironic msg about peace, love and being anti violence or something…but fuck...it does not come across like that. Terrible terrible idea. NOT HELPING. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">'Hashtag Terror attack you say?!...Buy my books because I generally talk about Islam & stuff'</b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> person - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Seriously...don’t be that person…don’t plug your non-specific stuff using a terror attack that took many lives. Of course some content is genuinely helpful and some content has been created as a specific response or commentary to this attack. That’s not what i’m talking about… it’s perfectly ok and also necessary for us to have access to different commentary and viewpoints after an attack. It’s how we process and form our opinions. This very piece is that… I’m talking about unrelated things that people are plugging using the hashtag and all. Don’t do that. That’s really in poor taste. </span><br />
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Goosebumps! The amazing moment Manchester crowd joins in with woman singing Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger after minutes silence <a href="https://t.co/Cw4mOq8yde">pic.twitter.com/Cw4mOq8yde</a></div>
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From the blog. Yes this is what we have to sign to get a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pakistani?src=hash">#Pakistani</a> passport. In this century. <a href="http://t.co/P5JgENmpF9">pic.twitter.com/P5JgENmpF9</a></div>
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We <i>have</i> to ask questions to progress, we <i>have</i> to stop glorifying religion. Dial it waaaay down…Pakistan exists perpetually on a tipping point. It tips every day…and innocent lives are lost. That’s on us - it’s time to speak out, throw your hat in the ring, make your mark…do your part for a liberal and tolerant Pakistan. Speak up for minorities, speak out against injustice.</div>
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From a western, ex-muslim Pakistani-Canadian perspective like mine…it’s getting harder and harder to have this discussion on an international level, because there’s always some who will jump on our voices and use them to cast our own loved ones in a bad light. I feel like i’m forever walking a tightrope. Call out illiberalism on all sides, abandon tribalism so we can have these conversations honestly. </div>
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If you're on atheist Twitter, you've probably heard the terrifying and heartbreaking tale of Dina Ali, a young Saudi woman, trying to escape an abusive family...on her way to Australia to seek asylum, but stopped in the Philippines and hauled back to danger by male relatives.<br />
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I have seen many good people rally behind this worthy cause. I hope creating all this noise will be of some use and we can help her find freedom somehow. At least her family knows there are people looking out for her and want accountability.<br />
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I can only hope, that one day women in the place I grew up, Saudi Arabia, will have the freedom to move and travel as they please.<br />
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What else can we do besides making noise? I know it feels like you're helpless and oceans away. But sometimes campaigning and distributing information to those who simply don't know about the situation, is invaluable...<br />
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The topic of anything relating to Islam is fraught with baggage in the current global climate. People who were reluctant to touch this subject before, will be even more reluctant now. If we, as liberals, actually want valid critiques to be heard on a wider scale, this is the time to build bridges with the mainstream left - who control most mainstream, <i>credible</i> media.<br />
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If you care for the rights of Muslim women, this is the time to vocally oppose anti-Muslim sentiment, anti-immigrant/anti-migrant sentiment, so that when and if such women get a chance to leave...they don't continue to suffer. Honestly, in the Islam-critical scene, I don't see enough of that.<br />
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One thing that makes this situation even worse is people using this instance to dump on, discredit and minimize the struggles of Western feminists as a whole. It's wrong on many levels, but its also just strategically flawed and counterproductive.<br />
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Granted, many Western feminists may not be aware of the struggles of women in Islamic theocracies - and may indeed view the subject through a Western lens.<br />
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I myself have been a critic of this time and time again....on specific topics like hijab for example.<br />
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There <i>are</i> definitely some *specific* instances where the response of Western feminists can be criticized. And I'm perfectly happy to do that when its relevant - but what I'm seeing a lot of <i>now </i>is a blanket condemnation of Western feminism as a whole.<br />
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Now <i>of course</i>, theres no comparison between the types of struggles faced in the West and those under Islamic theocracy. But who, other than anti-feminist types are equating the two? Women saying "we should be heard too" isn't equating or saying they are comparable. This is another manifestation of the "But what about Islam" nonsense - nothing else can ever be criticized, thanks Islam. :/<br />
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1) Western feminist? Bah...you don't have problems.<br />
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Ok maybe not all these types deny the existence of 'privilege', especially when it suits them:<br />
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Sure Sharia is THE worst for women...but this is not to say that Western feminism as a whole is frivolous and silly. Don't give me the tired crap about manspreading as if that's what the whole movement is based on. I've heard more anti-feminists obsess over manspreading than feminists. Yes there have been some silly instances, which I have no issue with criticizing....but that is not representative of the whole of Western feminism.<br />
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By this standard every woman who escapes life in a theocracy and moves to the West...and wants to <b><i>continue</i></b> fighting for her rights even in the West, against<i> Western </i>misogynists...is now just engaging in trivial BS. So basically: '<i>we'll have your back till you leave sharia...after that, you're a joke, your concerns are non-issues.' </i><br />
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Free speech is a major topic of concern in our circles, but this 'anti-Western-feminist' argument can be used there too. If it's not sharia-level bad, it's not worth worrying about I guess...total non-issue:<br />
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I can't describe how awful it is to see this as someone with one foot in both worlds. To see women's suffering being used against women in other contexts.<br />
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I've been forced to veil in the past, but this doesn't mean I won't care about workplace sexual harassment in a Toronto office.<br />
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Stop using the pain of women abused under Islamic regimes to undermine feminists in the West. Women's rights and the fight for those rights extends across the globe. Women are not pawns to pit against each other in some stupid imagined rivalry.<br />
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I have spent roughly half my life in the West and half of it in the East...in a theocracy. I can tell you that even though there isn't morality police here, women's problems are not magically erased. Women are still struggling for equality all over the world, <b>to different degrees obviously </b><i>(yes, calm down, not equating)</i>. If you care for women's rights, and aren't <i>just</i> interested in weaponizing the *idea* of women's rights to express your hatred for Islam...then you should care about those rights everywhere. Islam can be criticized without throwing Western feminists under the bus. Some may seem reluctant to criticize Islam now, and boy...minimizing their struggles will definitely change their minds!<br />
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Most importantly, this approach is a disservice to people like Dina Ali, if Muslim women's rights are continued to be seen as a cause hijacked by anti-feminists, right-wingers, etc. to undermine progress and women's rights in their own parts of the world...these critiques and calls to action will never fully resonate with the mainstream...they will always be a taboo topic to touch, they will always be tainted by associations with those seen as having illiberal views in a Western context.<br />
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And this is why ex-muslims in the West like me...<i>and</i> women who continue to exist under sharia, often feel like we are shouting into the wind. How can any of us be heard like this?<br />
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So...how do we help women like Dina? We talk about these issues...without using her heartbreaking situation to undermine others.<br />
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Here are some examples of the battles Western feminism is facing today...for those who think it's <i>just</i> non-issues:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fox-oreilly-idUSKBN17C01P">here</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/fox-news-rogers-ailes-face-another-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/article34561183/">here</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/16/planned-parenthood-defund-house-republicans-vote-approved"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/the-senate-just-voted-to-roll-back-womens-healthcare.html"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://preview.ajc.com/news/crime--law/man-shot-wife-death-front-year-old-because-she-dated-new-man/KArYNui0o3fEZLxC87xG9M/">here</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/shana-grice-murdered-stalking-fined-for-wasting-police-time-michael-lane-trial-lewes-crown-court-a7637196.html"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story h<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/07/29/feminist-writer-jessica-valenti-quits-twitter-after-rape-and-death-threat-against-5-year-old-daughter/">ere</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Full story <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/watch-cops-tell-florida-woman-to-stop-calling-911-3-hours-before-she-was-gunned-down-by-boyfriend/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/2911182/stanford-rapist-brock-turner-to-be-released-friday-after-serving-half-of-6-month-sentence/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></td></tr>
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And all this continues in a climate where alt-right sexism/misogyny is becoming hip, trendy and acceptable in a way it hasn't been in decades...In a climate where a self-professed sexual predator is sitting in the most powerful position in the world. Accusations of sexual assault certainly didn't damage his 'career'. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full story <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/03/31/this-young-mom-is-the-face-of-mormonisms-hateful-alt-right/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></td></tr>
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We are in a time, where it's acceptable to say women should be taken out of positions of political power, "we need to establish a fierce and strong patriarchy". This is not some obscure alt-right woman btw, this is someone praised as an ally by our very own leading atheist figure, Dave Rubin.<br />
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"women must be removed from political power" (although still of course backs Le Pen) in order to "reestablish a fierce & strong patriarchy". <a href="https://t.co/veGhSMX0c3">pic.twitter.com/veGhSMX0c3</a></div>
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Somewhere along the way, many crossed over from rightfully criticizing the left for dealing with Islam-related topics poorly, to opposing every liberal left value...feminism, diversity, standing up for minorities, trans rights, etc. <br />
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<i>For those asking over the past few days, wtf happened to start these mob attacks on me: Well...I'm not entirely sure, because they sort of came out of the blue. There's a general rift in left-leaning atheists and right-leaning atheists. And 'right-leaning' is seen as some sort of slur, when it's just an observation based on the politics coming from some of these types. If you're anti-left on everything, and rarely ever anti-right...it says something. Especially today. Oh - and there's no gold star for seeing the most obvious flaws on the right, like Trump or Alt Right nationalists.</i><br />
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<i>Basically a few days ago, some dude I had never heard of, called @FuriousFossa was upset that I tweeted about not knowing what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiya"><span style="color: blue;">Taqiya</span></a> was till I got on twitter. Despite growing up in Saudi. Because this didn't confirm his previously held beliefs, what good are ex-muslims if they can't confirm your bullshit views?! </i><br />
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<i>Then, someone upset him further by saying that people using that term while criticizing Islam are usually bigots. OMFG the B word!! We have to be extra PC with that word, so as not to upset the delicate sensibilities of the anti-PC, anti-sjw crowd, why can't everyone know that!! </i><br />
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<i>And I'd agree, people insisting on using that word are usually pretty loony...(as was proven in this case). </i><br />
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<i>I've got news, Muslims can lie without any special religious permission. Just like any other theist. </i><br />
<i>They aren't religious robots & this isn't a widespread muslim conspiracy to deceive people. It's a niche concept that most aren't even aware of. And I mean, there's just so much actual terrible stuff that is commonly practiced in Islam </i><i>(polygyny for one)</i><i> to criticize anyway, there's little reason to cling defensively to obscure things like Taqiya. </i><br />
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<i>Fossa was also upset I wrote something (to someone else, not him) about how pointing to ISIS is a great whataboutery tactic for apologists of the western right. Just point to ISIS, it'll always be worse, and you're off the hook. </i><br />
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<i>That's it two strikes for me, and he decided he wanted to disprove my entire background and lived experience. This way, you know, once I was totally discredited...at least he'd know I was wrong about the concept of Taqiya, and he was right! </i><i><br /></i><br />
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<i>Trying to prove me dishonest, after being upset I didn't confirm his views on a dishonesty concept in Islam....almost like...trying to prove me a taqiya-er. How taqiya-esque. </i><br />
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<i>Then...of course, Lalo - always on the lookout for jumping on any criticism of me, Joined in and helped to float the conspiracy theories to a larger audience (who knows why - I've barely interacted with the guy in ages...he's still always infuriated with me). And then Yasmine, who, it seems, had it out for me since we had a private falling out during Gad's last unhinged meltdown at me. </i><br />
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<i>Because she, as my friend, publicly tweeted how those attacking me, and me were equally 'embarrassing' or something. I tried to privately discuss it with her, she deleted her tweet I believe, but it was clear she wasn't too sympathetic to the attacks on me because, she tweeted I was equally embarrassing..and because I criticized Gad/Rubin's far-right associations in the first place. People she clearly considered allies. I was pretty disappointed and put off, but my reaction was not to go out and slander her. I just silently disengaged and went about doing my own thing, which still included criticizing Gad and Rubin's shady associations. </i><br />
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<i>Of course, silly me. I didn't learn or keep my mouth shut after the last round of baseless attacks. Lalo even tried circulating the 'she's not a real ex-muslim' thing that time, but I think it got lost in Gad's endless stream of hate.</i><br />
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Gather round peeps, I’m gonna share a really absurd tale about supposed ex-muslim allies, supposed critics of sjw style 'oppression olympics' and sjw ideological purity tests…but who are now furious because an ex-muslim they disagree with ideologically/politically in their minds was not oppressed ENOUGH. </div>
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A fellow ex-muslim, that I have personally promoted, jumped in happily to weigh-in on the drama and attempt to negate my lived experience by claiming I just *dabbled in oppression*, haven’t truly experienced it or anything… My life was like a 5 star resort apparently...and everyone else seems to be a good judge on what kind of life I had in sharia-land.<br />
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It's not even by people I actively debate or disagree with…but people I have little to no interaction with.<br />
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They don’t understand the first thing about life in Saudi, none of them have lived there.. but are telling others far and wide what my life experience was like. They are giddy from having ‘exposed’ me, caught me out in some lie about the duality of life in Saudi Arabia as an expat. They've been working hard for this one. </div>
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Not like I’ve podcasted about the duality of life in Saudi <a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/episode-25-life-in-saudi-arabia-burqas-bras"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/episode-23-life-in-saudi-arabia-stopenslavingsaudiwomen"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/episode-26-life-in-saudi-wali-rizvi-the-atheist-muslim"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>, or <a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/saudi-attacks-the-nothing-to-do-with-islam-phenomenon"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>….and not like i’ve specifically addressed this strange juxtaposition in articles myself or anything. I have never claimed to be the most oppressed person in Saudi Arabia, quite the opposite in fact. I have always talked about being lucky to have the kind of life I did there. But, despite that...my life certainly wasn't free from the application of Sharia law, from standard Islamic theocracy regulations, that were just absorbed into my life as 'normal' because I knew little else. </div>
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(let me come out and say now that I’ve lived in both Saudi and Pakistan, lest they do some other genius clip about my ‘contradictions’ ..sometimes you will hear me talking about going to school in Saudi, sometimes you will hear me talking about going to school in Pakistan. It’s because both are true… not because I’m a secret spy or Taqiyya-er who can’t keep her lies straight) </div>
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I imagine this will only get crazier as their rage grows…because they cannot discredit me based on things I’ve been entirely honest about. Since I'm the wrong kind of ex-muslim, I do not get the charitableness anonymous ex-muslim accounts they don’t have issues with get. </div>
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Mostly, people on both ends have an issue with me because I refuse to pick a team. I think criticizing both Islamic far right and western far right is important. And I think in Trumpian times, It's vital to focus *some* of my critique on the western right and its apologists. When that toxic stuff overlaps with criticism of Islam, it does nothing but muddy the waters, and hold back valid criticisms from resonating with the mainstream.<br />
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I exist simultaneously as <u>an ex-muslim woman </u><b><u>who grew up under Shariah</u> </b>(that’s right I said it again), who will harshly criticize Islam when relevant, as an <u>expat from Saudi</u> who will tell you that in some bubbles life in Saudi was pretty secular at times, and as <u>a *Western* liberal feminist</u>. So I will have critiques of western sexism and misogyny too. And I will speak up against anyone pitting different aspects of my identity against one another. Do not use sharia to silence western feminists, and do not use western perspectives to silence women who speak up about hijab, etc. This is whataboutery.<br />
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Anyway, I will have happy memories of my childhood in a secular compound in saudi…I will have tales of women bathing topless at my compound pool…and I will also have tales of being forced into a black bag against my will because of the ‘Muttawas' or morality police as we called them. I will have tales of having a great secular education, and I will have tales of horror where I, only a child, saw my mom’s ankles hit by a muttawa’s cane because her headscarf slipped in the market. I will have tales of being shepherded quite literally with sticks by morality police in Mecca who herd the women hastily into a segregated prayer area for women. I will have tales of being pushed to the ground and almost trampled because of the morality police forcefully segregating us in Mecca. I will have a story or two about running…being chased by muttawas as they yell behind me for <i>my</i> headscarf slipping…of narrowly making it into a car that was driven for me (because I did not have the right to drive)…and of the muttawas catching up, and grabbing on in vain to a little bit of black fabric as our car sped off and it slipped through their hands. I will have such stories of escaping the morality police in the street.. and of feeling fear, and… of feeling comfort ...that for some hours I had a compound to go home to…and to shed the black cloaks that I wasn’t given a choice on. A reverse amish compound as I’ve literally referred to it before. </div>
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I encompass <b>all</b> those identities and I’ve repeatedly, honestly explored them with my audience…I’ve pointed to the absurd duality. Yet the internet mobs who hate me (which only used to consist of islamists at one point..but now they are fewer than the rabid western right wing apologists) have portrayed this as some great shady conspiracy. Some incredible contradictory set of stories that simply cannot be consolidated. </div>
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Cue fellow ex Muslim, previous guest of my show Yasmine to jump in and cast further doubt. She posts an ad for <i>the</i> most extravagant compound in the entire country, and projects that onto my experience. My compound was nothing like Aramco, it was incredibly small and modest in comparison, but thats irrelevant, even if it were Aramco I'd have to experience Sharia every time I left. My life was not better than the life of most Canadians because I was still forced into a black bag against my will, pretty much every day. Morality police and their canes were a regular sight, I had few rights as a woman. But sure, please go out of your way to discredit my lived experience.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I don't like what Ali had to say so I'm going to fill in my own details despite never having lived in<br />
Saudi or knowing anything about life there." "Eiynah barely left the compound, went to school on the compound"<br />
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Not even multiple corroborations of this reality are convincing enough. No no, everyone who says this is lying, but these random internet people who know nothing about life in Saudi, are here to 'non-Saudi-splain' to me that my experience is inauthentic, that I’m an embarrassment to women who *really* live under sharia. I'm just an imposter, who lived under sharia but also had access to a community pool. So you know, discrediting my story is fair game. I also had air-conditioning. The luxuries I’ve been hiding from you all. </div>
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This is the same group of people mind you, that get upset when people try to discredit Ayaan Hirsi Ali's lived experience of being a victim of FGM. But because I don't fit the mould they'd like me to, and also will criticize people within the islam-critical scene. You can make comics to mock and laugh at my life experience. </div>
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Surely anyone with a shred of principle would object to random false accusations being used to smear someone. I mean these ‘principled' types are out in droves when someone slightly misrepresents Richard Spencer the nazi or Milo. <i>“I don’t agree with their ideas but”</i> just doesn’t extend over to ‘the wrong kind of ex muslim’ I guess. </div>
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----Worse still…Yasmine, once a friend…someone who’s had a terrible experience under Islam no doubt.. I would never discredit her experience despite her vicious attacks on me, She’s someone I empathized with, with all my heart.. But somehow she has it out for me because I’m, you know, a shit disturber who derails from *only* criticism of Islam, by having a problem with fellow atheists when they promote rape apologists or… white genociders… why can’t I just keep my head down and perform the role that is laid out for me as an ex muslim? Criticize islam, thats it. ----<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah its totally mental and a delusion of grandeur to expect someone like Rubin who claims they are liberal<br />
to not promote rape apologists, like they've done nothing wrong...or white genociders. This is a convenient strawman<br />
of my position on Rubin, used repeatedly. I don't care if he aligns with me on every single thing, I enjoy some of Sam Harris' work, I don't agree with him on everything (as you might have noticed on my episode with him). I enjoy some of Maajid Nawaz's work...I don't agree with him on a lot, since he is an adherent of religion and I'm not. Heck, I don't think I agree with anyone <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">on everything. But I do expect people to at least not look the other way on *rape* apologetics, white genocide, Islamism...important values like that matter to me. they aren't some tiny, nitpicky details. For some people , I guess opposing *only* Islamism is important. (Oh, and not like I'm currently being targeted for a difference of opinion). </span><br />
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who's basically the flip-side of the problem to Rubin. <br />
Another sanitizer, downplayer, legitmizer of another far-right. But somehow calling out<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> … I’ve seen her downplay the inhumane 'Muslim ban' that separated families. That could have potentially prevented people like her, from escaping the ME when they needed to. The idea that people around the world could be upset at the principle, despite a lack of their personal involvement... why is that so hard to grasp? </span></div>
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My concerns of the easy slide to the right are pretty self evident. This is something ex-muslims are particularly vulnerable to, I myself have been courted by the right. But actively resisting it in the face of rising popularity isn’t something everyone can do. It's why I'm not too bothered about popularity. I'll happily take being less popular and more consistent. </div>
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Anyhow, she’s used this whole dumping on me process to tag Rubin in a tweet…and whaddaya know… get a spot on the Rubin Report, as I had predicted! Prove me right, that’ll show me!<br />
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I guess it means that there’s not many of my views that they can effectively argue against if my critics have to resort to weird conspiracy bullshit about me not really being who I say I am. </div>
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Imagine how stupid and risky it would be to make claims about being an ex-muslim from Saudi growing up under sharia and then to do a podcast series talking with people who lived there <b>for real</b> (unlike me)… about the details of life there. Why would I put myself in that situation? And if I wanted to make up my story, why not make up full oppression to the worst degree. Why this better compound life? </div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/NiceMangos">@NiceMangos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AkiMuthali">@AkiMuthali</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SurlyCripple">@SurlyCripple</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/StrictlySid">@StrictlySid</a> unless you've lived under locally-sourced artisanal sharia, I don't want to hear from you</div>
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Lalo know’s that I’ve seen my mother hit by morality police, he knows these experiences but still wants to question and delegitimize. These are the same people so disgusted (rightfully so) when Greenwald misrepresents Sam Harris. How are these guys any better I ask? If we cannot have standards simply because someone is Islam-critical, then we are no better than the Greenwald's we so love to criticize.<br />
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Lets remember what’s really important here though... I am not oppressed enough. I am just pretending to be because it’s hip.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So being forced to wear a hijab can be oppressive even in Canada (I agree).<br />
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But the only ongoing beef this crew has with me is over a difference of opinion on someone like Rubin or Douglas Murray. Inevitably, if you probe their criticisms of me they end up around the fact that I don’t like Douglas Murray, that I had the audacity to have Sam on my show and do something other than talk about what we already agree on (yes, Islam sucks), that I had the audacity to ask Sam his views on or make him aware of what other prominent atheists are doing, that I shouldn’t criticize Rubin (no matter how much evidence I have) - It’s petty to go after bad actors on this side apparently. But its incredibly noble to go after Werleman, or Reza Aslan or Linda Sarsour or Glenn Greenwald. </div>
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Opposing bad ideas & apologists for people with bad ideas consistently is ‘tribal’ & ‘petty’. Picking a side and avoiding self-criticism is truly rational.<br />
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Heck if I thought that way, I’d never have left Islam. (But have I really? how will we ever know?)</div>
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Yup, its the #RegressiveLeft that has a monopoly on not tolerating dissenting views. Meanwhile Lalo blocked me long ago for having a conversation on MY podcast, with someone entirely unrelated.. whom he claimed to not even know… sure never mind it was known anti-muslim conspiracist who thinks Maajid Nawaz behaves like an Islamist. And Obama may have been a secret muslim. My questioning Robert Spencer so deeply offended Lalo, the champion of tolerance and rationality… </div>
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Now we’re at a point where the desperation to discredit me for wrongthink is so evident… my criticism of Rubin, Gad and co is based only on what they actually say or do, observable facts, I am happy to provide proof for any allegations of them promoting far-righters or even to talk to them, but none of these Classical Liberals wish to engage with the actual criticism, and none of them want to talk to me.…<br />
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So - in retaliation for my evidence based criticism I get smears based on nothing…and some onlookers think this is a tit for tat. It’s being framed absurdly, as an equivalence. Which I will object to every time.<br />
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Not Rubin, for promoting rape apologists.</td></tr>
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a public smear campaign about you, simply to put out a false equivalence to tens<br />
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Well, I guess it'll be #NotYourBeef next time someone is slandering Ayaan, as well.<br />
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I'll say this again, I’m criticizing someone who is promoting far-righters in an environment ripe with hate crimes (very much the flip of what Linda Sarsour does with Sharia/Saudi Arabia, etc.)…There’s a legitimate reason to do this… this is not about hating someone personally. It's as necessary imo,<br />
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The attacks on me are however are just pure hate…disagree with my actual views any time. I'd welcome honest disagreement, but don’t lie about me ffs. As Lalo says:<br />
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If I respond and defend myself against such baseless accusations I’m accused of being the petty one who just won’t shut up and let people spread lies about me. Ugh Eiynah….why so petty? Why can’t you just let people say hateful ridiculous stuff about you? The other 'petty fight' she's referring to below, is the previous Gad meltdown. Which consisted of days of him bashing me as an 'anonymous troll', 'Queen of anti-semites', 'plumpy pineapples'...because <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/nick-cohen-on-gad-saads-podcast/"><span style="color: blue;">Jerry Coyne posted a pretty mild (evidence-based) comment of mine about Gad and Rubin promoting far right people</span></a> </span>like Tommy Robinson, PJW of Infowars. His meltdown is documented in this <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelRDodd/status/804513902096584704"><span style="color: blue;">thread</span></a>.<br />
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Anyhoo, I wanted to make note of this instance for just how crazy it has been. Who knows where we’ll go from here…this is the ‘community' that supposedly values evidence but has few issues with the guy who legitimizes Infowars while crying that mainstream media are fake.<br />
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This is the community that is constantly, (rightfully) upset at Ayaan being silenced for her harshly critical views on Islam, but won't really care if some from within are trying to silence ex-muslim views on the internal problem of legitimizing western far-righters. If you care about ex-muslims and muslim women's rights so much...you should technically care if the people potentially mistreating them are muslims or western far righters. <br />
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On paper many will have the correct answer to opposing the right wing hijack of criticism of Islam, but putting that into practice, gets met with resistance and character assassinations as you can see. </div>
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They call themselves ex-muslim allies. Nope… just when ex-muslims stick to criticism of Islam, and serve a purpose… </div>
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They are bothered by my anonymity now.. but had no issues with it for years when I mostly just criticized Islam. (They have no issues with more agreeable ex muslim accounts either). Now, I'm this 'divisive' person who won’t stfu about the Western right, when Hitler salutes are in existence again. <br />
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Let's stick to the important facts though, it's the left that's always at fault. Misrepresenting even people like Richard Spencer. He's not a white supremacist, silly lefties, he's a white nationalist. Imagine the response at someone being this pedantic about Islamists.<br />
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There are many offshoots to this attack on me too… so many ppl with all this rage uniting against me … its really rather sweet that everyone came together like this to pile on total lies, false equivalences between me and my smearers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right, I'd LOVE to see evidence of this. I once long ago said that mocking muslims<br />
as dirty for eating with their hands, is not a legitimate criticism of Islam. This borders<br />
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Staunch A (from above screenshot) has residual anger for me, because I wrote a <a href="http://nicemangos.blogspot.ca/2015/08/jihadist-joe-vive-charlie-islam.html?zx=e4c08fc99d5afd3c"><span style="color: blue;">blogpost </span></a>calling out an anti-migrant publication she worked for. Run by the guy who tweets this stuff:<br />
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According to Yasmine I smear everyone, even though she participated in smearing and discrediting *me* completely uninstigated. To them smearing is simply when other people object to their lies. When people defend themselves... its an attack.<br />
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A) Smear someone, sling mud.<br />
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<li class="li1">I said Yasmine was pandering to the Right and said she was an opportunist for using this specific instance to get airtime on Rubin. - provable through her own tweets, fb posts. Like seriously…she can go around discrediting my entire existence, post memes about me dabbling in oppression to be cool or something, and I can’t even in response point to actual behaviour I’ve observed, that might <i>explain</i> why out of the blue she chose to do this? As someone who promoted her, I think I can safely say she used me and my platform and publicly discarded me when she had no more use for me. I can’t even begin to fathom what kind of ex-muslim would say ‘she dabbled in oppression’ about another. </li>
<li class="li1">I criticize Rubin, Gad and Douglas Murray - only ever based on what they actually say/endorse..not on personal attacks. Though Dave and Gad have tried to retaliate via personal attacks. I welcome disagreement with my views, and have offered to speak to them many times. But they avoid engaging with my actual criticisms and avoid discussion.</li>
<li class="li1">I say Dave and Gad pander to the right - how is this even controversial? "Mr. Why I left the left, let me work with Dennis Prager on how shitty the left is", and "Mr. 'Trump has the superior position on Islam', and 'let me get Geert Wilders on my show to piss of Eiynah'"</li>
<li class="li1">I’m divisive - sure only as divisive as anyone pointing out Islamism is bad and apologists for it are bad. </li>
<li class="li1">I deflect from criticism of Islam - um.. nope? Have u seen my work? I just object to people using Islam to deflect from criticism of the western right. </li>
<li class="li1">I haven’t been oppressed enough. - Lol </li>
<li class="li1">I have not had as hard a life as people who didn’t live in a compound in Saudi - agreed. Never claimed that I did, in fact always have made this distinction, if u only took the time to look into my work, listen to my conversations with Saudi women.</li>
<li class="li1">My claim of growing up under sharia is untrue - Nope. </li>
<li class="li1">I once said to someone in a Tweet i’ve only personally *met* about 3 niqabis - so I must not know much about oppression/Sharia. Er, no. Having personally *met* and sat down with very few niqabis doesn’t mean i didn’t grow up around them, go on the bus with them every day, see them in the market all around me, see them in every waiting room, community gathering etc, etc. I <i>personally</i> don’t have such a religious family, and we don’t <i>personally</i> know such extreme religious people. I’ve met a handful, and its really uncomfortable talking to people in a black mask. I’ve lived around them my whole life though, and probably had many insignificant interactions with them. But no, I just don’t *know* many is all. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li class="li1">My ex muslim story is so dubious that even EXMNA had to reject me - Nope. Refuted. But not retracted, by Mr. Honesty himself. </li>
<li class="li1">It was mean of me not to graciously accept Michael Sherlock’s public false equivalence of people who smear me and me, right in the eye of that storm. I said that’s bullshit, so its understandable he jumped to “You are the monster u revile” “You are a crazy cernovich conspiracist about Rubin” (yeah ok if u think cernovich is crazy, then u should have no problem with the fact that i think Rubin normalizing cernovich’s craziness, is crazy) and then “cunt” x 2. - I’ll say it again…what an asshole thing to do to a friend…I have not known Michael to be like this, so I’m wondering if he was abducted by aliens or something ? Or if my criticism of Rubin had been building up as some sort of anger towards me? I don't know.</li>
<li class="li1">I’ve said before that in Saudi many of us weren’t aware of the extent of how barbaric some of the punishments were - like of course we heard about public beheadings and those rumours circulated, they weren’t publicly discussed or acknowledged in detail because…as any idiot would know, life in Saudi Arabia is a heavily censored in many ways. One of the most censored and silenced topics is the violation of human rights in Saudi. This doesn’t mean I have no experience living under sharia, it means this is one of the effects of living under sharia ffs. Information is kept from you in an Orwellian way. #NotShariaEnough indeed. Where else do you live under fear of morality police, think sneaking around with alcohol (moonshine) as a teenager could lead to death or deportation, where else are you forced into black bags without your consent? Where else do you live life as a woman knowing you are a second class citizen. That if you are potentially raped, there is no real recourse. Where else could you experience morality police canes? </li>
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which is presented by my critics as me saying all people who like or have been on Dave's show are fans of white supremacy and rape apologetics. Now if you actually read what I said, it says…”if you don’t have a problem with the promotion of those things” , clearly.. you’d be a Rubin fan… this is pretty self explanatory I think. But by now you’ve seen my critics aren’t very smart at all. Dave Rubin demonstrably promotes white genociders (a white supremacist conspiracy theory that builds fear about interracial 'breeding') and rape apologists unchallenged, laughed Mike Cernovich's rape apologetics off as 'Rattling Cages' ffs. This is one of the main criticisms against him. If thats fine with someone, or they are happy to look the other way because he serves some other agenda of crushing the evil SJWs who run the world…. then why would they NOT be a Dave Rubin fan? If you can overlook these things, yeah you'd be a Rubin fan. Im sure many people are Rubin fans just out of ignorance though, who aren't aware of the bigger picture or details of the kinds of people he's promoting, because he doesn't present these troubling guests accurately. In fact he presents them in the best light possible, as allies. But if you know, and don't find it to be a problem that's troubling. </li>
<li class="li1">I hate that Dave Rubin talks to controversial people - No. I’d be fine with his exact same guest list if he simply challenged these guests on some of their disturbing views, or if he at least made his audience aware of why these people are controversial in the first place. Instead it’s a nodfest. This is very harmful, especially in this political climate. And has visibly made the atheist scene toxic and overlap hugely with infowars /alt-lite/alt-right audiences. I actually really enjoyed David Pakman's interview with Richard Spencer. He did what Rubin pretends to. </li>
<li class="li1">I'm just like a Muslim apologist who says non-muslims don't have a right to speak about Islam, riiiight. Because thats what I'm saying here (below). Doesn't matter that I've stood up for diverse opinions on Islam, multiple times, *Even non Muslim ones* (and this doesn't mean all opinions should be free from criticism). Just because I don't think Lalo's simplistic views are very relevant in the grand scheme, I'm somehow stifling his right to speak. Yeah, I totally want Sharia law in the west so no one can speak ill of the precious religion I left behind. The thing I've observed about Lalo is that he's not very knowledgeable, and it would greatly help if he had first hand experience at least. He wishes he could speak with the authority of someone with first hand experience on Islam...so he wants to discredit the people he hates, that do. I'm sure there are a lot of topics he <i>could</i> have interesting views about, things he has personal experience with. But he's rather obsessed with Islam...so here we are. Lalo can spend days spreading lies about me, and thats not a problem to Yasmine...but if I express an opinion on how relevant I think he is....I'm basically a Muslim apologist who wants Sharia law.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li class="li1">I am somehow upset with Yasmine because she's more popular than me..haha. It certainly couldn't be that I decided I will no longer be silent about things I've <i>observed</i> about her, only *after* she contributed to negating my entire life story. Because those things might help to explain why she went after me like this. Also, last I checked I had quite a lot more followers, undoubtedly she'll get more if she goes the Rubin/Gad/Lalo route..but it hasn't happened just yet...so that too, is just false. I also said she was pandering to the soft right, not that she is right wing. <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0RhitDwj0Mw/WOPjrrnjsII/AAAAAAAACuY/vJ0k0zMaZEoGgfy4-uro9wfLScOt2Jz0QCLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-04-04%2Bat%2B2.18.57%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0RhitDwj0Mw/WOPjrrnjsII/AAAAAAAACuY/vJ0k0zMaZEoGgfy4-uro9wfLScOt2Jz0QCLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-04-04%2Bat%2B2.18.57%2BPM.png" /></a></li>
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Clearly this is a contest between Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and Dave Rubin. Because Jihadis will always be the worst, undoubtedly (and we come full circle from how this started with Fossa being angry 'I deflect from Islam')…I guess worrying about the rise of far right hate and extremism in the West where many of us critics of Islam live, is just silly and frivolous. Not like the US has stepped few decades back in the past months or anything. Nothing to see here. Promoting white genociders and anti-feminists should proceed as normal. </li>
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Why can’t I just pick a team and stfu with all this inconvenient in-group criticism. It’s tribal *not* to.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This chaotic, potentially dangerous, and inhumane ‘muslim ban’ (which The White House is now saying <i>isn’t</i> a ban, after calling it a ban themselves on multiple occasions)...has many consequences…some of them obviously horrific…<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-travel-ban-immigration-scene-nyc-1.3962103">separating families</a>, handcuffing children & generally creating chaos around the world - But other effects are less obvious, less noticeable...and can slip under our radars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Amidst all the false accusations of ‘Islamophobia' even when people of <i>muslim background</i> would raise their voices to mildly critique something like misogyny or homophobia in their own communities….there <i>were</i> some people spouting <i>legitimate</i> anti muslim bigotry, right alongside them… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In fact, he’s doing an excellent job of victimizing them to such a degree that Islam/Muslims are being held in higher and higher regard each day. Its becoming 'the anti Trump', the symbol of defiance…to a problematic degree actually. The pendulum always swings too far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It swung too far right in opposition of the left's defensiveness around Islam, and now it is swinging further in favour of islam. There are reactionaries on either side - and their pendulums are a' swingin'. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>"Oh you think Trump’s Muslim ban is bad? What about Saudi Arabia not letting any non Muslims into Mecca? What about THAT ban?" </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Saudi?src=hash">#Saudi</a>! When will you lift your BAN on non-Muslims even entering ONE step in Mecca? Exit ramp: for non-Muslims. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoBanNoWall?src=hash">#NoBanNoWall</a> <a href="https://t.co/0svuAQIsLg">pic.twitter.com/0svuAQIsLg</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Hey Iran! How about lifting your BAN against the entry of women like <a href="https://twitter.com/NaziPaiki">@NaziPaiki</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Fide_chess">@Fide_chess</a> who don't cover their hair? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoBanNoWall?src=hash">#NoBanNoWall</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and my personal favourite: <i><span style="color: #999999;">“Oh you think Trump is bad, at least he’s better than Mohammed"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Yes, congrats he’s better than a 7th century desert warlord who married a child. His values as president of the US in 2017 are better than those in 7th century arabia…what a high bar you have! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Not to mention, Isis is pretty much a gift to extremists and apologists of far-right movements everywhere. It’s <b>the worst</b> thing of our times, something they can always, <i>always</i> point to that they are better than… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The left has it’s versions of 'not as bad as' too, the same way it has it’s versions of faux-minists, like those who champion the hijab carelessly as a feminist symbol, or those who think Sharia apologist Sarsour was a good pick to lead the Women's march. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And I’m sure we’ve all fallen prey to this fallacy at some point or another - but the levels of this I’m seeing on the right nowadays are astronomical, its a running theme not an occasional slip. Panicked flailing attempts at diverting attention from the total mess that Trump's created. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">There’s even a whole new type of 'stealth right' movement that insists its on the left….they <i>insist</i> they are not fans of Trump or Milo… but they spend unimaginable amounts of time defending these people they supposedly dislike, they spend a disproportionate amount of time criticizing those who oppose these people…(but i swear, they don’t like them or anything). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">— Eiynah -- (@NiceMangos) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiceMangos/status/826807555846451204">February 1, 2017</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">So yes I feel all that, but I am also not compelled do defend him or Richard Spencer for <b>days on end </b>on social media, nor would I be compelled to defend or shed any tears over Anjem Choudary, if he got punched).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Yes...Trump is victimizing muslims, we must strongly condemn and oppose it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Be wary, is all I’m saying. Stand with muslims, yes...but don’t let anyone tell you Islam is above criticism. More important now, for us to take this discussion in a liberal direction, rather than let the far right own it. Maybe we can start chipping away at their hate, with better alternatives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">There are more countries and communities that force niqab, but gay bashing cleric mufti menk decides to ignore that. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldHijabDay2017?src=hash">#WorldHijabDay2017</a> <a href="https://t.co/HQV3aXjGeQ">pic.twitter.com/HQV3aXjGeQ</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I’m all for women having the right to choose their modesty coverings if they truly have a choice and they want to perpetuate this practice, but the disproportionate focus on women’s right TO wear something that majority of women wearing it in the world get <b>forced</b> into, is in incredibly bad taste…its preventing liberals from muslim backgrounds from gaining the same equality for women that has been won in the west.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Today we celebrate a woman's right to wear the hijab! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldHijabDay?src=hash">#WorldHijabDay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RightToCover?src=hash">#RightToCover</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStand4Hijab?src=hash">#IStand4Hijab</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hijabi?src=hash">#Hijabi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensRights?src=hash">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/No2H8?src=hash">#No2H8</a> <a href="https://t.co/SvqlMUE8xl">pic.twitter.com/SvqlMUE8xl</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Privileged to have been appointed Ambassador for Gibraltar for World Hijab Day. Watch this space 😉 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldHijabDay?src=hash">#WorldHijabDay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStand4Hijab?src=hash">#IStand4Hijab</a> <a href="https://t.co/MewQsZsbLV">pic.twitter.com/MewQsZsbLV</a></span></div>
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<br />As a woman who grew up under Sharia in Saudi Arabia, I cannot help but resist the glorification of the tools of my oppression.<br /><br />As much as I loathe Trump, and the chaos he's creating, as much as I stand in solidarity with Muslims at this time....as much as I am personally affected by discrimination against Muslims myself...I cannot sit back and watch conservative Islam be championed in this complex and toxic political climate. </div>
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I ask my fellow critics of religion to be particularly cautious at this time not to feed into far right narratives of hate.... similarly, I ask my fellow left leaning liberals not to fall into romanticizing conservative Islam. It's like walking a tightrope, I understand - but the more we avoid falling into traps on either side...the better equipped we will be to combat this. </div>
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Those who identify as liberals and rationalists...have traditionally thought of far-right religionists as their primary enemy. Until 9/11, that mostly took the form of Christianity, and now it’s mainly Islamism and all it’s instantiations - particularly the violent Salafi-Jihadist kinds.</div>
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More recently, since the infamous Ben Affleck / Real Time with Bill Maher incident, there’s been increasing concern about the so-called “regressive left”.<br />
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This grouping of apologists for religion, intellectually dishonest journalists, religious conservatives and overly sensitive college kids has become the focus of a large proportion of the time and effort of a considerable number of people in the atheist community. Their slurring of Muslim reformers and their allies, their apology for theocracy and their propensity to take offence at anything and everything has drawn significant ire.<br />
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Recently though, a more invidious enemy has appeared. A slick con-man that has schmoozed and bamboozled it’s way to gaining traction with a significant percentage of the atheist community.<br />
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While the general public sees the alt-right, thanks to the media’s coverage, as a collection of backwards, stupid, racist, Trump-supporting hicks who like trolling people and posting cartoon frogs, the truth is actually much worse: the important members of the alt-right, and the most dangerous subscribers to it’s ideology, are usually smart and well-educated people, well versed in philosophy, history and politics.</div>
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What feminized medicine looks like: <a href="http://t.co/XjN3FhN6">http://t.co/XjN3FhN6</a> Why should I pay for a woman's retarded baby?</div>
— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/159452947837755393">January 18, 2012</a></blockquote>
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The alt-right purport to be the 'true rationalists'. The ones who will stand up for what’s true, in spite of 'political correctness', in spite of 'the social justice warriors trying to police our speech', in spite of 'the corrupt elites in Washington who want to defend the status quo'. </div>
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To the untrained ear, they may even seem rational.<br />
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They <i>appear</i> to value evidence. They <i>appear</i> to care about truth and justice. But these appearances are a thin smokescreen, a co-opting of the nomenclature of rationalism to give a veneer of trustworthiness - allowing them to stand smugly above others and pretend they are unique in basing their positions on evidence, free of ideological dogma.<br />
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But dig even slightly and you’ll find that conspiratorial thinking is at the heart of their ideology.<br />
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Everything is a conspiracy.<br />
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Hold a conversation with these people and you’ll soon find yourself being offered explanations with little to no evidence. It might <i>sound</i> like they have evidence...just from their sheer confidence, but scratch the surface and you won’t find any.<br />
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Anti-trans, anti-diversity, extremely nationalistic, nostalgic for the 'good old days', progress to them is anathema. We already reached the peak of civilisation, and now we’re just in decline. It’s all just corrupt elites and politically correct “cucks” trying to lead us blindly off a cliff (or into WW3 with Russia). Feminism is done, gay rights is over and done with, racism is a thing of the past. Anyone concerned about these issues is a “cuck”.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Plenty on the left are dangerous too, no doubt, but they don’t <i>claim</i> to ground their thinking in enlightenment values. They don’t <i>claim</i> to be the rational, measured ones. They care about offence and hurt feelings, they care about creating “safe spaces” and valuing “lived experience” and they openly admit this. </span><br />
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Of course, “lived experience” is not an empty concept, although it is one that is sometimes misused by the left. Ex-Muslim perspectives are valued partially <i>because </i>of their lived experience, as are people who face racism, sexism and other forms of bigotry. The misuse comes in when it becomes a tool to silence dissent and criticism of a particular view or ideology: ie. hijabis claiming their lived experience of choosing to wear a hijab invalidates critics of forced hijab.</div>
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We need to start removing these people now. <a href="https://t.co/gJQgHTR4hR">https://t.co/gJQgHTR4hR</a></div>
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I honestly see the alt-right as some sort of horrifying, mutant offspring of the rationalist liberalism movement. It's taken all of the things that rationalists ostensibly stand for like freedom of speech, the value of evidence, honest discourse, a disdain for overblown political correctness, and basically plopped that all on top of a pre-built ideology. </div>
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Unless you mate with the 1st fertile human you met upon reaching puberty, you're a eugenicist. From there it's just where you draw the line.</div>
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So they call everyone irrational, and act like <i>they</i> are the true rational ones, but when you look closely there's just...nothing. There's just bluster and bombast, and people saying "<i>actually this is the case</i>", "<i>the evidence says this</i>”, “<i>this has been debunked</i>” with absolutely nothing to back it up, save for questionable sources and hastily Googled articles that appear to agree (usually only on first glance) with what they believe.<br />
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Some examples of questionable “evidence-based claims” from Milo Yiannopoulos, poster boy of the alt-right:<br />
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Milo on JRE #702: <i>“They all end up killing themselves anyway, by most metrics there’s no improvement in suicide rates.”</i><br />
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Milo on Rubin Report: <i>“There’s no hatefulness, and racism and sexism and homophobia left in this country really.” </i><br />
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Milo on Rubin Report: <i>“No reputable economist takes the wage gap seriously” </i><br />
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Trump retweeting false statistics on black murders:<br />
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The alt-right is the John Carpenter’s ”The Thing" of ideas. Currently, it's wearing the skin of rationalism but if you pay a little attention it just bursts out in blood and guts and spews shit everywhere.</div>
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They are not refugees, they are RAPEFUGEES.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash">#SOTU</a></div>
— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/687098846610993153">January 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich">@Cernovich</a> Rattling cages... <a href="https://t.co/HxbL4aSPAH">https://t.co/HxbL4aSPAH</a></div>
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/763225168906850304">August 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;">If you value evidence, please, actually look for it. If you value rational discourse, don’t let it be silenced with cries of “SJW” and “cuck”. If you value compassion, try your best to understand the arguments of those that you oppose (and yes, that includes those on the alt-right). And don’t think someone convincing because they speak with confidence and charisma, namedrop philosophers and fabricate statistics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/Liggi" target="_blank">Jason Liggi</a> for this excellent guest post! </span></div>
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<b><i>So a couple of weeks ago, I sent an email to Sam Harris, hoping to get some clarification on his views and recent support of Douglas Murray. It was a long shot, it's a complex issue and an uncomfortable one, but it was worth a try. I tried to approach him directly, but by now I assume I won't be hearing back (I get it, he's a very busy guy!) -- so I'm releasing my email as an open letter. These are important questions that need to be raised in an environment of increasing hostility in the online atheist scene. The 'heads' of the scene can do a lot more to build bridges than they do, imo. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>In this fight against radicalization the world will need all the liberal, progressive, ex-muslims they can get. Between the apologia/denial of the illiberal left and anti (im)migration sentiment of the right there needs to be a reasonable middle ground. Alienating secular immigrants is not helpful or productive at all. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>I know, I know, taking a stand against Douglas Murray's awful views on immigration is not going to go down easy with many of you. Since he's so excellent at taking on the regressive left/islamists.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>I get plenty of hate from all sides any way, i'll manage if you send a little more my way. But know that it's pretty ridiculous to expect a person of Muslim immigrant background to accept generalizations and anti immigration views. It's just not going to happen. My bar isn't so low that anyone good at critiquing islam is automatically on my list of favourite people. And yours shouldn't be either.</i></b><br />
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I’m an ex-Muslim (atheist) Pakistani-Canadian blogger and illustrator who receives much hate mail, death and rape threats from Islamists for my work. As a woman, of Muslim background who took on the task of writing about sexuality, politics and religion I am subject to a lot of internet abuse. The islamist abuse - I have sadly accepted as part of the territory, but what shocks me every time is the abuse I receive from a certain strain of fellow atheists. I have been meaning to write to you for a while, but have been putting it off since it seems a mammoth task to explain my difficult position. After seeing parts of your exchange on Twitter with Maryam Namazie, regarding ‘collective blame’, I thought to finally sit down and do it.<br />
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I’m saddened to see an increasing rift, especially since the refugee crisis, between 'Western atheists' and ex-Muslim atheists, and I wish for it to go no further. So here I am. Maryam and you both are voices I admire greatly — I see a growing tension and I wish to offer my perspective on why this may be occurring.<br />
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You may remember me from my <span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/10/25/comment/an-open-letter-to-ben-affleck/" target="_blank">‘Letter to Ben Affleck</a>’</span>. I understand and relate to your positions on religion especially the unique problems that Islam is posing today. In a world where the left has completely abandoned liberals such as myself who stand firmly against the religious right, no matter what religion (and especially the one I was born into), I am glad to see you as an ally…as someone who stands in my corner and starts conversations which many like myself from muslim backgrounds have sacrificed their lives for. You start these conversations on a larger scale than I thought was possible, and you bring awareness to many people. For that I thank you, sincerely. I have interviewed and heard from several ex-extremists in Pakistan who say they were changed by watching your debates on YouTube.<br />
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I have personally seen the value of your voice and I will always have your back when people accuse you of being an anti-Muslim bigot. I believe your criticism of Islam is coming from a good place, a compassionate place and from a desire for betterment of the situation for all affected by it. It’s a rarer perspective to come by, as more and more people are attracted to this discussion.<br />
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There are charges of bigotry and racism being thrown around at almost anyone who dares to criticize Islam. I myself (as a Pakistani woman) have been accused countless times...of 'white supremacy', racism and other ridiculous things for opposing my own oppression. For writing a, what I thought was, polite and gentle letter to Ben Affleck and other defenders of the faith, I was even accused of ‘assisting genocide’. For writing a letter!<br />
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It’s a world gone mad.<br />
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I can personally relate to the frustration you and many others experience at this false charge. Not only are these accusers of bigotry at every instance of legitimate criticism adding to the confusion...but they are effectively diminishing it’s meaning and watering down instances of actual bigotry…till they are almost unrecognizable to those who aren’t immersed in the topic. Crying wolf too many times never did anyone any good.<br />
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Because so many false accusations are hurled at critics of Islam, we tend to take them less seriously, as we should. However, this has turned into a new problem where actual instances and bigoted stances are better camouflaged….and anyone speaking out against actual anti-Muslim bigotry is regarded as a 'social justice warrior', or 'regressive leftist’ - which was not the original intent of the terms, I’m sure.<br />
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I am a harsh critic of Islam - anyone that knows me or my work or follows me on twitter can see this, yet when I oppose blatant-anti Muslim bigotry I am accused of being an apologist for the religion I risk my life to oppose, by a certain type of atheist. On the flip side of the Islamophobia-shriekers there are those who think that people who make clear distinctions between people and ideas are apologists. These are the people who seek to demonize Muslims as a whole, who actually think its ok to generalize a large, diverse group as savages and rapists. I know these are charges hurled at you, and me, and Maryam….and they are false when directed at us but they are completely true for a growing number of far-right sympathizing atheists.<br />
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In between these two extremes you will find liberal Muslims and ex-Muslims battling both Islamists who wish to silence our critique and anti-Muslim bigots who wish to demonize us and our families. There is constant abuse from both sides, and it gets harder and harder to walk the tightrope of productive discussion and rational critique.<br />
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I am explaining this, because I know you may not deal with both sides of this abuse on as great a scale as many who are <i>personally</i> discriminated against for having a muslim background do. I just wish to show a bigger picture…with people’s paranoia and anti-refugee sentiment coming out, this is enhanced. The gap between immigrant ex-Muslim atheists and ‘western' atheists grows. And we should be natural allies.<br />
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While there are obviously fair concerns about large numbers of people migrating to any country who may not share values or who may hold extreme beliefs, we see those who are minorities within this group further marginalized. Just as they are by the left’s refusal to address the problems posed by Islam. The blanket hate and lack of compassion towards people who want a better life, or are fleeing, drowning to get away from the same extremists <i>we</i> also loathe, detracts from any legitimate points being brought up in regards to immigration/migration.<br />
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At a time when we should be discussing values and things like behaviour towards women, we have people either trying to disassociate or hide the backgrounds of actual criminals and rapists (as seen in the recent incident in Cologne), or we have people trying to use such news to demonize immigrants as a whole. Its a vicious cycle pushed further to the extreme from all angles, where the reasonable middle ground is drowned out.<br />
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We should be discussing better screening processes, how to change bad ideas that may be carried over when migrating, into good ideas…we should be discussing the values we should not compromise on simply because people arriving are members of minority groups, we should discuss the physical limits of absorbing people, so we don’t cause towns to be overtaxed, we should discuss problems and methods around integration, especially the problematic attitudes towards women - but instead too many are busy denying negative effects all together *or* discussing the fact that we shouldn’t bring 'these people' in at all, or that we should prioritize Christian refugees over Muslim ones. Yes there will be no jihadis among Christians, but by simply making this statement we are refusing to acknowledge that many Muslims who don’t practice the hardline version ISIS demands are also at great risk. As an immigrant who was given the chance to leave a religious country and enter a non religious one, I can’t in good conscience support denying that chance to others (with reasonable precautions and vetting of course). It is not an easy issue to navigate through, as there are valid points to be made for and against, but its one we must tread on carefully and sensitively to ensure that important points are not being silenced by blind support or blind hate on either side.<br />
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While you may criticize Islam from a place that is in support of those who seek to change it, better it, leave it…there are many, many who would rather close their borders and have nothing to do with people of Muslim background at all. (In fact many of us are under constant accusations of being secret islamists, myself, Maryam, Maajid - “once a Muslim, always a Muslim" rhetoric is used to silence our opposition of anti-Muslim bigotry). Sure they will cheer liberal/ex Muslims as they criticize Islam, but will turn their backs on us or go silent the second we oppose the demonization of people who look like us, our families. This is not about brown skin, but bigotry against perceived adherents of a faith. Ex muslims, even Sikhs face anti-Muslim bigotry. This is simply not opposed enough in the so called ’new' atheist scene. And by the descriptions I hear of it, I am apparently a ‘new’ atheist myself…because I refuse to sit silent in the face of religious injustice.<br />
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When you partner up with someone like Douglas Murray to do a <a href="http://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/on-the-maintenance-of-civilization" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">podcast specifically on migration and the refugee crisis</span></a>, there are some mixed messages being sent. While he is not an open bigot like Trump or Carson, and he is eloquent, makes many excellent points in his criticism of Islam & the failures of the left, he does reside somewhere on the spectrum of people who otherize and generalize Muslims. As his story about Jews in Malmo being 'chased out' (1:39:05 on your podcast) by increasing numbers of ‘Muslim' populations indicates, as his saying things like “why would you allow an increasing number of Muslims into your society” (1:40:15 on the podcast) indicates…this is not to deny that there aren’t clear problems with Muslim populations, this is to say that he makes no effort to make a distinction between marginalized liberal muslims who oppose this hate and intolerance, and the majorities who support it. The label ‘Muslims’ tars all kinds of Muslims…not just Islamists. He is not entirely wrong, because Muslims are causing these issues certainly, but we must not forget about the Muslims that are also victims of such intolerance, misogyny, homophobia. We are the ones who suffer the anti-Muslim backlash from Murray’s generalizations…where people less intelligent and less nuanced than him spit on us and tell us we are scum.<br />
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It was not without <i>your</i> prompt in the podcast that topic of future Ayaans and Maajids being amongst these refugees was brought up. It was you who said these people deserve to be given citizenship…these are not the points Murray is concerned with. His simplistic view is that "Europe doesn’t owe anyone anything"…as if he wouldn’t do the same if him and his family were in such a desperate position. His position seems to be not one of compassion. And this takes away from some very valid, important questions he does ask, "would Europe be able to take in millions of Syrian refugees? What will we do once they are here? Do we have any jobs for them or places for them to live?"<br />
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Murray is not the bigot that Trump is or that Tommy Robinson is, but he is certainly an apologist for such bigotry (such as that of far right nationalist group EDL’s), and downplays its harmfulness. He is someone who thinks Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch is a brilliant writer and scholar. This is where it gets muddy (around the 4:50 mark).<br />
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Yes, absolutely the left fails and I call it out time and time again, you’ve even shared work of mine that calls out the left for it’s failings on your twitter.<br />
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Put my feelings regarding Western liberals & their double standards in a table. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Exmuslim?src=hash">#Exmuslim</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AnApostateExperience?src=hash">#AnApostateExperience</a> <a href="http://t.co/dcgvEbRklE">pic.twitter.com/dcgvEbRklE</a></div>
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But just as the far right is emboldened by the failures of the regressive left, the regressive left is emboldened by the bigotry of the far right….it is people like me, Maajid and Maryam who are stuck in the middle of this, between a rock and a hard place.<br />
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Murray’s apologia for Christianity is frankly off-putting, that he assumes no religion other than Islam is really worth discussing. It is a small picture he sees, if he can’t see the harm caused by other religions and the necessity to discredit them all. Just because Christianity is largely disempowered in Europe, doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful elsewhere, or that faith schools are ok. It is that insistence that we must *only* discuss Islam and excuse away the rest that indicates to me some form of residual attachment, some form of toxic tribalism. I understand that there are harmful beliefs to varying degrees and Islam is undeniably at the forefront of it today, but I make no mistake of excusing the rest. Certainly we can prioritize and emphasize, but we can’t devolve into apologists for other harmful beliefs simply because of our dislike for one that is currently more harmful.<br />
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I consider myself a reasonable person and always willing to change my opinions based on evidence, I listened to your podcast with Murray a couple of times to make sure I wasn’t misunderstanding him. I listened to more of his talks and appearances, and found him to be excellent when taking down opponents like Asghar Bukhari, but its his tribalism, apologia for Christianity, compassionless stance on immigration, refugees that I can’t reconcile with. To hear you being ‘honoured’ to speak with someone who time and time again demonizes immigrants like me, was disappointing. Also your point regarding Ben Carson...I know it was twisted and misused against you by all the usual suspects. I get what you were doing with that comparison, you were trying to highlight the extent of regressive left’s failings. But still, I found that way of framing the issue very odd…to put it so that you have to pick Ben Carson in this pairing, a known anti Muslim bigot - when you yourself are charged with this by so many confused people. So I must respectfully disagree. I’m no fan of Chomsky, let me add. But having the US run by a creationist would be harmful in all sorts of ways…and I’m not sure I can accurately measure the harm both of those hypothetical candidates would do to make this comparison. In an environment that is highly confused and emotionally charged, this message was unclear for those who may not be so knowledgable about the topic or about your views.<br />
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Criticism of Islam is bound to attract those who wish to hear it taken apart for tribal reasons, not secular, rational reasons. It happens to my work all the time, my ex-muslim voice is hijacked by far right lunatics to further their own xenophobic agendas…and it happens to your voice too, through no fault of your own. But with such bigots who hitch their wagons to fair, rational criticism of Islam, there needs to be encouragement to unhitch. There isn’t much currently.<br />
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There needs to be an effort to distinguish your position and that of Murray’s, rather than the conflation I see (or at least I’m hoping to hear there is a clear distinction) …which is why i think criticism of islam has to be done along with criticism of anti muslim bigotry, in detail and often…to create a less hostile environment for ex Muslims…and for liberal Muslims, so that productive critique can happen. So that we can be true allies without feeling there is little room for us. When I hear from toxic atheists every day, I despair - and i am not comparing them to islamists…there are no atheist death threats…but there r people who call me arab scum, tell me our food is dirty, that we are savage for dipping our hands in our ‘hummus', that everyone of muslim background should be sterilized because they can’t be trusted….that the pew polls should be enough evidence to convince me that it is ok for people to discriminate against my family, because they are likely to be intolerant and savage… after hearing those things all day (along with the usual Islam apologia) - I am emotionally drained, and incredibly disappointed when I hear people like Douglas saying it’s a terrible idea to allow more muslims in. If there was ever a time to separate your stance from Murray's…this would be it….this era of Trumpian nonsense.<br />
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This is perhaps the third version of this email I’ve written. It’s been difficult to write to someone I admire like yourself, and say I disagree. I do so with the utmost respect, but I felt this was a point that needed to be discussed. I have just started a podcast, which was banned and taken down from youtube by people (islamists) who constantly target my social media presence. My first guest was Maryam Namazie, I am not someone important or famous, and this is a long shot, but I would be incredibly honoured if you would at some point consider coming on for a chat about immigration/migration with an ex-muslim immigrant.<br />
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I will never misrepresent your positions, but since it’s happened to you so many times, I can understand if there is hesitation. Please know that I am an ally and a fan…who wishes to bridge gaps rather than see them increase. My sincerest apologies for such a long email!<br />
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Great letter, Eiynah. (Sorry it got buried in my inbox.) I don't agree about <a href="https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray">@DouglasKMurray</a>. I'll respond soon. <a href="https://t.co/HBXu6ytWK8">https://t.co/HBXu6ytWK8</a></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Between the religious Muslim fundies that say Christmas is haraam (forbidden), and the lunatic conspiratorial anti-muslim bigots who think Islam is coming to destroy them all and take over the world, like NOW.... there is only a tiny slice of rationality...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Below is a work of satire, <b>not</b> an actual event or suggestion...but in my mind, it <i>is</i> kind of funny...a place where the anti-christmas muslim bigots cross paths with the anti-muslim, fox-news-lovin', christmas-is-all-about-JESUS type bigots. A place where the islamophobia-shriekers and cultural appropriation accusers meet those who <i>similarly</i>, are terrified of Western civilization being destroyed (appropriated) by creeping Shariah and evil Mozlem immigrants. ZOMG... outraged that Christmas is being removed from their coffee cups :O , persecuted by others who dare to say "Happy Holidays"...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Two sides of the same coin...how best can I piss them both off?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>FOX News Reporter:</b> <i>A disturbing plan unfolds as a secret document is found inside a mosque. A Mozlem plan to take over Christmas.</i></span><br />
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Announcement in the name of Allah: We are sick and tired of Westerners with loose morals influencing our children, and imposing their drunken orgy holidays upon us. We are sick and tired of 'Christmas cheer', and we've simply had enough of them culturally appropriating things that belong to *US*. They <i>eat</i> our food, and <i>wear </i>our clothes, our jewellery - and they have the <i>audacity</i> to enjoy it!<br />
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They have claimed the beautiful tradition of Henna. Well, we've had enough, and it's time to fight back.<br />
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A call to Muslims to <b>take over</b> Christmas.<br />
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Let's culturally appropriate that shit. Lets take it and celebrate the crap out of it. Let's make it *<b>our* </b>holiday.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Fox News Reporter</b>: As you can see they are planning a sinister takeover, destroying traditional American values, taking Christ out of Christ-mas. We always knew this day would come, Fox news has declared a red alert. We'll be watching this situation around the clock. It's important to remain calm in the face of this attack on traditional Christian Values. The key now is to strategize how to take Christmas back from the Mozlems. Follow us as we take you <b>behind the veil</b> of Islam's war on Christmas. [Cue Arabic music, prayer call] </span></i><br />
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<i>Our on-the-scene reporter is joining us to read this document in full:</i></span><br />
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"Here are some simple steps you brothers and sisters can take to insure victory is ours, Inshallah.<br />
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1) Re-name Christmas: From this day forth we will be referring to it as <b>Eid Ul-Christmas</b>. It will now be the <b>third Eid</b>. We will take every opportunity to mention this in the face of prostitute-loving westerners, that WE celebrate it now....and we call it <b>Eid</b>. That should terrify them....how's that for muslim immigrant <i>assimilation</i>?<br />
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2) Make sure you get a huge Eid-Ul-Christmas tree, to get into the spirit...if you can acquire a date palm instead of an immoral Western tree...more points for you. But if your location doesn't allow for date palms, Western trees are acceptable. And do remember to put a crescent and star on top.<br />
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If you have a fake tree - no need to worry about this, but if a real tree is being cut down, be sure to make it a <b>halal tree</b> by reciting the proper 'secret Muslim chants' beforehand.<br />
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3) Decorate your tree with only islamic ornaments.<br />
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Soon we will flood the market with halal ornaments, we just have to show there is demand for them. Fun craft idea...you can make little hijabis and niqabis out of ordinary round ornaments...just drape a piece of cloth around it and paint on a face...or cut two eye holes and drape the entire thing in black cloth. Set a good example for your daughters...by at least crafting a few 'modest' ornaments with them. It will be a great way of showing them we cover our most prized <i>possessions</i>...that way they'll ask less questions when eventually u <strike>tell </strike>give them the <i>choice</i> of covering their heads/faces.<br />
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4) Make sure you get one of our first edition "Hadeeth Wreaths" <span style="font-size: x-small;">(forgive the shoddy design, i did these in a hurry)</span> for your front door. Where upon entering and departing your home, you will always be reminded of the exemplary life/words of our beloved you-know-who.<br />
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6) Snowglobes? Heck no, we've got mosque globes, some even with gold glitter instead of snow... because WE get sandstorms on our blessed parts of Allah's earth.<br />
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7) Holly? Mistletoe? Fuck that.....we use dates and we gots plenty of cameltoe. We are appropriating the fuck out of this holiday.<br />
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8) Nativity scenes: we may have to concede this one to the Christians, because fuck, we aren't allowed to depict our prophet...or any living thing really.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c691b; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, wf_segoe-ui_normal, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 28px; text-align: justify;">It was narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Those who make images will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said to them: ‘Bring to life that which you have created.’”</span></div>
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9) Make sure Eid-ul-Christmas gifts are acceptable by Islamic standards. No dolls with faces, because remember, only allah is allowed to depict the living. Try "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AishaDolls"><span style="color: blue;">Aisha Dolls</span></a>" for faceless dolls named after the prophet's child bride. Or the the aptly named, hijab-wearing Muslim Deeni Dolls!<br />
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As Pakistani paper Dawn News reports:<br />
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<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 1.65;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The ‘Deeni Doll’ is adorned with a traditional hijab headdress and does not have eyes, a nose, mouth or other facial features, complying with Islamic law regarding representation of the human form.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Ridhwana told <a class="story__link--external" href="http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11663826.New__Islamic_doll__launched_in_Britain_has_no_facial_features/" style="background-image: url(data:image/png; background-position: 100% 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4444aa; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Lancashire Telegraph</a>: ‘I came up with the idea from scratch after speaking to some parents who were a little concerned about dolls with facial features.’</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>She continued: ‘Some parents won’t leave the doll with their children at night because you are not allowed to have any eyes in the room.’</i></span></div>
Relax, your kid's eyes are created by Allah, and therefore acceptable..<br />
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Naturally, any good Muslim parents would be concerned about dolls who have 'faces'...it's borderline idolatry. I mean, what if your children start worshipping their dolls?! It is a very real concern.<br />
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Also remember - No immodest clothing for girls/women. In fact giving headscarves and <strike>bags</strike> burqas is recommended. If you're a good muslim mother, you will naturally know your way around sewing (cooking, cleaning), etc - this provides you with the opportunity to add a personal touch to your daughter's Eid-ul-Christmas hijab, you can embroider empowering captions such as "My hijab/niqab is a feminist statement" or "My hijab, My choice".<br />
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10) Apostate crackers are going to be a huge hit this holiday season. Depictions of apostates who have turned their back on allah...the crackers split at their necks and the apostates lose their heads, as is commanded, of course. No harm in putting a little fun twist on shariah punishments.<br />
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Now we're <i>really</i> getting into the holiday spirit!<br />
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11) Acceptable ways of greeting each other include "Eid-ul-Christmas Mubarak"/ "Halal Holidays" not this "Merry Christmas" shit. I feel like a dirty infidel, just thinking about that phrase.<br />
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12) Tell your kids that the reindeer thing is utter bull. There are camels guiding Santa Bin Claus' magic carpet/camel train. We're going to take this myth and Islamize it for <b>our </b>children. #CreepingShariah #FuckYeah<br />
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"Rashid the red-nosed Camel, had a very shiny nose!"<br />
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Eiynahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347528710695523104noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731703290032072857.post-6150168631317118992015-04-24T20:43:00.001-07:002015-04-24T20:43:58.718-07:00Sabeen...I was told today, that a fellow Pakistani was gunned down.<br />
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I was told she didn't make it, and that her mother is in critical condition as well.<br />
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Before I even knew who, my knees buckled at the thought of another life lost...and I clutched my phone, knuckles white - waiting in line for something, I shrieked and quickly forgot where I was and what I was supposed to be doing.<br />
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As the victim's name was revealed to me, my heart sank...my mind couldn't process that this was someone I knew online. An activist, a thinker, a person who cared about the country she lived in - the country in which we are increasingly herded towards apathy.<br />
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Pak-is-tan. The land of the 'pure'.<br />
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Never was there a sicker joke...than the meaning of Pakistan itself.<br />
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We are pushed towards not caring, so we can leave it to the vultures...to do with it as they will. It'll be easier when we no longer put up a fight...<br />
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They already outnumber those left with a human heart.<br />
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There is a dwindling group of people who dare to ask questions, who dare to want discussions, conversations...these people are killed off one by one, quite systematically. The rest are broken down by fear.<br />
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Sabeen Mahmud and I did not know each other well, except for a few emails and maybe some tweets exchanged. She expressed to me that she liked my children's book, we talked about the fun design of her website...it was a breath of fresh air, as was her organization I hear. <a href="http://www.t2f.biz/" target="_blank">T2F</a> (the second floor) was a space for learning and discussion, for art, books, music and creativity. Truly one of it's kind in a country where so much of this is taboo.<br />
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Our conversations were light and pleasant. She was always kind to me, never treated me like the untouchable that many Pakistanis do...she was open-minded and a gentle soul. Never confrontational to anyone, just happy to provide a space for discussion and a platform for social change.<br />
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It was <i>that</i> space for conversation that proved intolerable. <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/pakistani-rights-activist-sabeen-mahmud-killed-150424210251526.html" target="_blank">Right after hosting a discussion on "unsilencing" Balochistan, <i>she</i> was silenced. </a><br />
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Unsilencing Balochistan (Take 2) with Wusat Ullah Khan, Mama Qadeer, Farzana Baloch and Mir Mohammad… <a href="https://t.co/k5W35d8XGb">https://t.co/k5W35d8XGb</a><br />
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I won't go into the the complex conflicts within our country that I do not fully understand myself, I won't go into the conspiracy theories that are emerging... but I will say this;<br />
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Everything points to the fact that she was killed because she was hosting the <i>wrong</i> kind of discussion. <br />
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But who are we kidding, pretty much<i> any</i> honest discussion is wrong there.<br />
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Pakistan is a country where terrorists can find safety and protection, but regular, honest, decent people cannot.<br />
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What do we do if it's not <i>just</i> the terrorists terrorizing us?<br />
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Who did this? I don't know...but whoever it was, managed to knock down yet another pillar of 'progressive Pakistan', not long till it's entirely demolished...<br />
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Ask yourselves this, dear fellow-Pakistanis, do we value the askers-of-questions, the starters-of-discussions in <i>life</i>...or do we only care to mourn them once they are gone?<br />
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Sabeen's emails in my inbox are a treasure that leave a void in my heart. The plans for a Skype conversation that never happened are a lost opportunity I regret very much. If only I had tried harder to find the time.<br />
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With every person killed for doing something that pushes boundaries...it hits home. When it's a person in Pakistan, a person I knew...it hits harder. I will not be silenced by this, but I cannot help being terrified. And I cannot help being terrified even <i>more</i> for Pakistanis who still reside there, who have no way out of there...I am scared for the journalists, the bloggers, the apostates, the dissenters of any sort. All of you, please be safe...<br />
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My thoughts are with you Sabeen, I never met you...but feel your loss immensely. You were a force that dared to make change, and you touched so many people's lives. You will not be forgotten. The sheer number of online tributes prove that.<br />
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<i>Below is our first ever #ChachaFanFic :D - honoured to have received an ‘interview with Chacha’ from journalist Ahmed Yusuf (<a href="https://twitter.com/ASYusuf" target="_blank">@ASYusuf</a>), who works with Pakistan’s leading English daily, Dawn.</i><br />
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Ahmed and his Chacha share many secrets.</div>
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Like the time when Ahmed ate all the chocolate that Uncle Faheem had gotten from Dubai. Ammi was livid, but Chacha came to the rescue. Then there was the time when Ahmed cut his elbow playing cricket and Chacha quickly put a plaster and let him play some more. Then there was the extra tub of chocolate ice-cream that Chacha smuggled into Ahmed's room after he had a tooth removed. There is a chamber of secrets between Ahmed and Chacha, but there is one thing there is no lying about: Chacha is gay.</div>
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“It is a strange world we live in; people ask questions about who you love and why you love them. Love is love yaar, that's what I want to teach Ahmed,” says Chacha.</div>
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Like all young paternal uncles, Chacha is part Ahmed's best friend and part his guardian. I met him at their Karachi residence over tea one evening. Chacha, Ahmed and Uncle Faheem are global celebrities now. They are the stars of the children's book, <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/imaansheikh/pakistans-first-childrens-book-on-lgbtq" target="_blank">My Chacha is Gay</a>, and their story is being </div>
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told in many languages by people all over the world. Except in Pakistan, where publishers are reluctant to place the book on the pretext of the country “not being ready” for such a book. Not that Chacha or Ahmed care about such things; they believe that the real bravado is in living an honest life. </div>
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“Who are Ahmed's role models? His father, mother, and then family around him. Why should we lie to him or make excuses about who we are? Doing that will teach him to lie to those he loves and makes friends with,” says Chacha.</div>
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Ahmed's parents complain that Chacha spoils him too much. “You only get to be a kid once,” Chacha says in his defence. “I want to ensure that Ahmed and my niece Saima, who is too young to even speak yet, have an incredible childhood.”</div>
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Chacha's desire to help his nephew and niece cherish their childhood stems from his own experiences while growing up. Much of Chacha’s childhood was spent in turmoil, trying to fit various moulds, and trying to hide who he was. He wants Ahmed and Saima to know that they will be loved no matter what, and that they should be proud of who they are and to stand up for themselves.</div>
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“I was bullied a lot in school. Over time, I learnt the most valuable lesson of my life: being any kind of different is okay.”</div>
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Today, life for Chacha is the same as it is for everyone else. He wakes up in the morning, occasionally drops Ahmed to school, goes to work, and returns home every evening. He enjoyed the serial Mera Sultan, but also loved the Masterchef Pakistan's debut season. Ahmed wants Chacha to compete in Masterchef Pakistan one day; Chacha’s Chicken Makhni (Butter Chicken) is divine, apparently. </div>
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And it was on one of the Chicken Makhni feasts that Chacha’s maternal aunt first popped the question, “Faheem is such a nice boy, when are you two getting married?”<br />
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Chacha was immediately taken aback, he recalls, while Faheem started laughing. “I tried explaining it to Khala that we can’t get married in Pakistan, that it's just not allowed, sadly. She still insists on a private ceremony.”<br />
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“What's the point of getting married anywhere other than Pakistan? This is our home, this is where our friends and family are.” retorts an exasperated Chacha. “Can you have a Karachi Mehndi in London? No. Can you invite friends? No, not as many as we would like. Yes, we might be signing nikah papers in a mosque, with an imam saheb, but why do it without loved ones, who mostly live in Pakistan?”</div>
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For a gay man in Pakistan, Chacha is unusually confident - homosexuality is legally punishable in Pakistan, although social evidence point to other realities. He attributes this confidence to his belief in always speaking the truth.</div>
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“Look, if there was a creator and he had to hate me, he wouldn't have created me,” he asserts. </div>
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The mood threatens to turn sombre, before Chacha blurts: “Yes I am gay, I am Pakistani, and I am a Muslim. Nobody can take that away from me. And yes, I love my nephew and niece, and I'd give my life for them in a flash.”</div>
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Point noted. I steer the conversation to how he met Faheem.</div>
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“We used to play cricket every weekend near the Mister Burger outlet on Tariq Road. One time, Faheem was there too. Long story short: we bonded on Pakola (ice cream soda), and the rest is history.”</div>
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“Honesty, I think... Faheem, as you know, is a pilot and really isn't in Pakistan most of the year. Whenever he is, I tell him he has arrived on a 'trip' to Pakistan,” cheers Chacha.</div>
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“We decided to treat our relationship as a long-distance one. I think that has allowed us to manage our expectations with each other. But when Faheem is back, we go to a bunch of places together. Lots of restaurants and cafes around Karachi to experiment with. Faheem loves karahi from Super Highway; he won't go to Do Darya but to the original outlets to eat that. We end up at movies together. Basically everything that a regular, healthy couple does.”</div>
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Since Chacha lives as part of Ahmed's family, I ask whether it was ever awkward to talk about homosexuality with his nephew.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Taken from Pakistani Children's book 'My Chacha is Gay' - see original post </span><a href="http://nicemangos.blogspot.ca/2014/02/my-chacha-is-gay.html" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" target="_blank">here</a></td></tr>
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“Oho yaar, it’s all about honesty and respect,” Chacha says. “Treat the child as a young adult and talk to them. I could lie to Ahmed about Faheem, but I have to teach him about my reality. I want to be honest with him.”</div>
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But how do you expect a child to accept something when most of society seems to be against you, simply because of your sexual orientation? Isn't that too great a burden?</div>
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“Pyaar is pyaar, yaar - that's what you teach a child. Else they can become beasts,” asserts Chacha.“We are a cruel people, sometimes. At work, one of my senior colleagues is gay but he hides it. People make fun of him, they bully him. He retreats into a shell. Then I think of some of my uncles and aunts. They had boyfriends and girlfriends, but never wanted to get married. I feel for them, maybe if they lived in better times, they could have been with or married those who they loved. But they couldn't. They suffered in silence. I want Ahmed to learn to be humane to all people, not be an insensitive and uninformed brat.”</div>
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“Sometimes. I’m afraid of the persecution you know,” Chacha says, with a knowing nod directed at me. I nod back.</div>
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“My mom loves Faheem. She didn't always, but now that she has warmed up to the idea, she is thrilled that he brings such happiness to me. Before Faheem, she would complain that I was becoming a little distant from her. But finding love has brought me out of my shell. Her acceptance, whenever it came, meant a lot too,” he says pensively.</div>
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Chacha's mother now admires Faheem to the extent that she laments their dining out whenever Faheem is in town. “She says to us, <i>ghar ka khana</i> (home cooking) is also good for health. But sometimes, couples need their space. I would always want to go crabbing with Faheem and eat the aloo crab cutlets they make on the boat.”</div>
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The one thing that Chacha loves most about Karachi is that he can walk around holding hands with Faheem in public and no one bats an eyelid. As he puts it, two men holding hands is not an uncommon sight, but two men asking for the <i>right</i> to be in love is what upsets people.</div>
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“Even today, many of my colleagues who have known me for long are okay with homosexuality, but many are not comfortable talking about it. Things always get a bit awkward when I mention Faheem in a large group setting. I really wish that could change... I want to be able to speak about the people in my life just as anyone would,” Chacha says matter-of-factly.</div>
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Eiynahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347528710695523104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731703290032072857.post-68408448219701947742015-02-24T09:42:00.001-08:002015-02-24T19:17:01.085-08:00My Chacha is Gay : It's been a whole YEAR!!<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/90493285" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="https://vimeo.com/90493285">My Chacha is Gay</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user26458208">Eiynah NM</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Wow. I cannot believe how quickly this past year with Chacha has flown by. Mostly because my life has been a whirlwind of interviews, articles and discussions. A lot of them focused on Chacha and LGBT issues in South Asian communities.<br />
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This time last year I put up what I thought to be an unpublishable children's book, because simply, one does not mix anything but married heterosexuality and Pakistan. The response I received from the <i>world</i> was overwhelming and hugely supportive. I began my journey to crowdfund the publishing. It was a success! With the largest contributions coming from Pakistan. I thank you all for supporting the project and making it such a success.<br />
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We often write places like Pakistan off, and say they simply are not ready to accept things outside of the religious norm. But if this past year has proven anything, it's the fact that Pakistanis are just as ready as anywhere else to accept things like the modern notion of 'family'.... With a few roadblocks of course. But it is up to us to push the boundaries set in centuries past.<br />
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Below is an infographic I put together, documenting Chacha's eventful year!<br />
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And here are a few of the photos I received from lovely people all over the world, that purchased the book! </div>
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I am also excited to announce that I have received my first ever Chacha Fan Fiction! Which I will be putting up shortly in the next day or two!</div>
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Feel free to submit your own #ChachaFanFic, photo or fan art to me at nicemangosDOTblogATgmailDOTcom - just remember that Chacha is a children's book character so it can't be sexual, political, religious. Meet those requirements, make it kick ass, and I'll share it on the blog! :D </div>
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<br />Eiynahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347528710695523104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731703290032072857.post-20521781669916860362015-02-19T21:43:00.001-08:002015-02-20T08:25:09.890-08:00 Spicy Nihari & Fingerbanging. Not a good Mix. <i><br /></i>
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<i>My wife and I enjoy your blog and we are glad that a Pakistani had the courage to tackle the messy, tangled, taboo web that is Pakistani Sexuality. Thank you for that, before your blog we really had no place to read about the sexcapades of fellow Pakistanis, its good to know that so many out there are human enough to have sex urges like the rest of us. Living amongst the "pious" and "pure" people of our country, one can easily begin to think that our people simply have no feeling left. Numbed by violence, tragedy and intolerance as well as a desire to repress sexuality, it isn't a stretch to think that all feeling is lost. But your blog reassures me that Pakistanis still have some left. </i><br />
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<i>So anyway, I come to you today with a rather um, awkward problem. I am a man in my thirties, happily married to a wonderful woman. We have a fantastic sex life, except a couple of times we've had an encounter with a specifically desi (South Asian) problem. Oh damn, I can't even believe I'm writing to you about this, but I bet this is something that has happened to more desis out there. I would love to hear that we are not alone. </i><br />
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<i>So basically the issue is this: after a large, delicious, spicy meal, typically something involving using your hands, like nihari, the smell and spice sort of lingers on your fingers. </i><br />
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<i>Even hours later, after multiple handwashings. Sometimes after nihari, later in the evening myself and the Mrs. get a little 'active' in the bedroom. My fingers travel down south and I am interrupted by a screech. Completely forgetting what we've had for lunch that day, I ask my wife whats wrong and she screams that my fingers have caused her genitals to burn and sting. I think back to what I ate, and fuck it's almost always nihari or some really spicy saalan (stew/curry). Completely ruins the mood, and she has to go run cold water over herself to ease the burning. And I'm left with my dick in my hand, cursing myself and my spicy lunch. </i><br />
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<i>I've actually remembered before when I've had spicy food to specifically scrub my hands before I get into bed and finger my wife. No luck. Same shit man. She still screams and complains that it burns. </i><br />
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<i>I don't know what to do - now this isn't with all desi meals, just with the extra gravyish and spicy ones. Do I have to choose between eating nihari and fingering my wife? Because goddamn it I love both those things so much. But the damn spiciness doesn't leave my fingers for hours. What do I do? </i><br />
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Oh dear. I am so sorry for laughing. But talk about 'desi problems' eh?<br />
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[Paraphrased] "I ate too much spicy food with my hands today, so I can't fingerbang my wife."<br />
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Shit dude, this is a real issue. I mean I don't know what to tell you? Scrub harder before fingering your wife. If that doesn't work, remember to go straight to oral the days you've had nihari type food? Don't skip on the foreplay and just stick it in, because that's just shitty sex. If your fingers are unusable for some reason, use the others 'parts' you have at your disposal.<br />
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You could also get a vibrator so you don't have to use your hands, I hear they have bootleggers for sex toys in Pakistan now (though how much I'd trust a sex toy bought from a shady guy in an alley, I don't know...see if he has customer references at least? Even then be wary.) <br />
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Eating certain foods with our hands, is just the way its done in Pakistani culture. Being the traditional, cultural woman that I am, I wouldn't dream of asking you to give that up or give up nihari in general (that would be sinful, that stuff is *so* good). So yeah, try alternative ways, get creative. Plan nihari on unsexy nights? Haha I dunno, I don't have a magical antidote for your problem. It is rather unique.<br />
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But hopefully this post can get you thinking on the track of alternative courses of action. Maybe you can invest in a box of disposable rubber gloves and role play doctor once in a while?<br />
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If anyone else has come across this issue, and has a fix for it - please do leave a comment!<br />
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Boy, you really add a new dimension to "spicing things up in the bedroom". Tingly, burny genitals do not sound fun. :/<br />
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But nihari is goood...so goooooood. It's a pity it had to cross paths with genitals. Definitely not genital friendly.<br />
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Eiynahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347528710695523104noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2731703290032072857.post-74607586649943078132015-02-13T22:42:00.000-08:002015-02-13T22:42:53.634-08:00Happy Valentine's Day from Chacha & Faheem! I'm not a huge fan of Valentine's Day myself... but I sure do <i>love</i> seeing Chacha and Faheem being in love! I received a letter and a photo from him today, that he wanted me to pass on to all the wonderful folks who have supported the immense struggle it is to be Pakistani and <i>not</i> fit the very narrow mould set out for us.<br />
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Yes you <i>can</i> be Pakistani and different, yes you <i>can</i> be Muslim and not fit the 'norm'. Love who you are and don't let this nasty world get you down! xx<br />
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<i>Chacha and Faheem are characters from Pakistan's first anti-homophobia children's book which you can view <u><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/imaansheikh/pakistans-first-childrens-book-on-lgbtq" target="_blank">here</a></u></i></div>
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<i>You can support the project and buy a copy of the book <u><a href="http://www.mychachaisgay.com/" target="_blank">here</a></u></i></div>
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<i>All copies purchased on Valentine's day will be signed with a 'Happy Valentine's Day' note from the author! </i></div>
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