Well, Quebec recently passed a law that bans wearing hijabs when there's maybe 15 women in Quebec who do. It's blatant racist demagoguery, but alas, to expect something else from Frenchmen anywhere is a losing cause.
My comment is that we are allies with Saudi Arabia, which is the single nastiest regime in the Middle East and one Osama bin Laden and company hate because it is just that nasty. To ally with the Middle Eastern version of Antonescu's Romania and claim that we're seeking freedom is a blatant lie, but that's not stopped us.
Is it shitty to be a woman in the Middle East? Yes. The Middle East's experience with European "liberty" was foreign rule that was as nasty as it was everywhere else. Europeans did nothing to encourage freedom aside from using Christians as wedges and then reducing everybody to equal misery, something their successor states continue.
And nowadays the USA is joining the misery-producing crowd as well.
I personally believe that concerns for women's rights and human rights are insincere because the people who preach this loudest are also the most fervent supporters of an alliance with one of the vilest group of scumbags on the planet and quietly overlook that Dubai is currently allowing real true modern day slavery to make all those tourists happy.
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Date: 4/5/10 16:13 (UTC)My comment is that we are allies with Saudi Arabia, which is the single nastiest regime in the Middle East and one Osama bin Laden and company hate because it is just that nasty. To ally with the Middle Eastern version of Antonescu's Romania and claim that we're seeking freedom is a blatant lie, but that's not stopped us.
Is it shitty to be a woman in the Middle East? Yes. The Middle East's experience with European "liberty" was foreign rule that was as nasty as it was everywhere else. Europeans did nothing to encourage freedom aside from using Christians as wedges and then reducing everybody to equal misery, something their successor states continue.
And nowadays the USA is joining the misery-producing crowd as well.
I personally believe that concerns for women's rights and human rights are insincere because the people who preach this loudest are also the most fervent supporters of an alliance with one of the vilest group of scumbags on the planet
and quietly overlook that Dubai is currently allowing real true modern day slavery to make all those tourists happy.