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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Not To Help Out the College Republicans or Anything, but…

posted by on October 23 at 15:33 PM

So, UW’s College Republican club is sponsoring an “Islamofascism Awareness Week” with a film about suicide bombers and a talk by right winger Michael Medved.

According to the sponsor’s website, other suggested activities are “holding sit-ins outside women’s studies departments to protest the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam.”

Republicans aren’t very creative. What they should do is dress up like radical Islamists and protest women’s studies classes themselves.

Or, heck, protest the fact that women are in any classrooms at all.

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They should consult Mel Gibson for creativity.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 23, 2007 3:51 PM
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What they should do is dress up like Palestinian suicide bombers and then blow up- oh wait, is that too much?

Posted by Gomez | October 23, 2007 3:52 PM
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Huh?

Posted by DOUG. | October 23, 2007 3:54 PM
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The primary premise of "silence of feminism" is false, there has been major debate in feminist theory about precisely this type of opposition to patriarchy in other cultures, in fact the third wave of feminism emerged in response to the ethnocentrism of feminists in denouncing other culture's practices

Posted by vooodooo84 | October 23, 2007 3:59 PM
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Dan Savage should show up for this - after all, I did see him on Colbert discussing the persecution (and execution) of homosexuals in Iran - an important point getting lost in all the Colbert one-liners and gags.

Posted by JMR | October 23, 2007 4:06 PM
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From the site:

We expect that many universities will create impediments to the planned protests and events, refuse necessary permits or room reservations, and otherwise demonstrate their hypocrisy by failing to allow patriotic students a voice on campus. We hope to be proven wrong

Oh, bullshit they do. College Republicans, and Horowitz himself, would be nothing without some exceedingly flimsy grounds on which to proclaim themselves a horribly oppressed minority. They'll deliberately do a half-assed job of adhering to regulations and then whine when they get called on it.

"Let me tell you Internet, it's HARD BEING A COLLEGE REPUBLICAN! Those nasty lib'rul professors make me drink from the Republican drinking fountain and hang nooses by our office and tell us the world wasn't created in seven days and give us Fs when we don't follow directions on our homework! Y'all don't know what it's like ..."

Posted by tsm | October 23, 2007 4:10 PM
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According to the sponsor’s website, other suggested activities are “holding sit-ins outside women’s studies departments to protest the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam.”... Republicans aren’t very creative.

No kidding, sit-ins? That's so 1960's leftist; College Republicans suddenly consider this fresh thinking?

Posted by JMR | October 23, 2007 4:21 PM
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I think they should do a sit in at a Marine Recruiting Center.

And then enlist.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 23, 2007 4:35 PM
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It's pretty funny when right-wingers pretend to care about women's rights and gay rights when the opportunity suits them. And it's hilarious that one of their pamphlets is called Jimmy Carter's War Against the Jews.

Posted by Gabriel | October 23, 2007 4:54 PM
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@8... i actually read your comment as "I think they should do situps in a Marine Recruiting Center."

Posted by infrequent | October 23, 2007 4:57 PM
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And what the hell? One of their two main objectives is to convince people that global warming is not as big a threat as "Islamofascism"? So now the Islamophobes and climate change skeptics are just one big ball of fun.

Posted by Gabriel | October 23, 2007 4:59 PM
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I thought General JC Christian made up the term "Islamofacists."

And seriously, the only reason they aren't aware of the feminist debate around Islam is that they don't bother to look it up AT ALL. Just because it hasn't waltzed into their puny little consciousnesses doesn't mean it's not happening.

Posted by exelizabeth | October 23, 2007 5:23 PM
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I think there are at least one million people in California who might disagree with them about whether or not Global Warming is a threat ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 23, 2007 5:38 PM
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They should dress up as radical Islamists and hold a consciousness-raising event at the airport.

Posted by flamingbanjo | October 23, 2007 6:11 PM
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And what the hell? One of their two main objectives is to convince people that global warming is not as big a threat as "Islamofascism"? So now the Islamophobes and climate change skeptics are just one big ball of fun.

I say we propose a deal - the right can no longer justify policies by citing "terrorism", and the left can no longer justify policies by citing "global warming".

We'll all be better off.

Posted by JMR | October 23, 2007 6:39 PM
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Um, the silence of feminists on the oppression of women in Islam? What the hell are they talking about? The entire reign of the Taliban was protested loudly by feminists, among, well, everyone else in the fucking world. Feminist organizations constantly and consistently condemn the Saudi regime, and one of their greatest laments since the fall of the Baathist regime has been the rollback of womens' rights in Iraq, usually talking about an Iranian style regime, thereby referencing and condemning another fundamentalist, anti-women, Islamist regime.

And really, the views of College Republicans are more in line with those of the Taliban than mainstream America.

Posted by Gitai | October 23, 2007 7:38 PM
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this is just an excuse to bash muslims and feminists at the same time.

ignorant douche bags

Posted by vooodooo84 | October 23, 2007 7:52 PM
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they should also protest against Christo-fascism and it's destruction of America's ideal of Equality.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn | October 23, 2007 8:19 PM
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I got tipped off to this before I left my apartment for campus yesterday morning, and I got all excited thinking there'd be good cause to do some verbal wrasslin' with some neo-cons. But alas, there was no evidence of this event...

What's an argumentative anti-war grad student to do?

Did anything actually happen besides the likely underattended Medved lecture in Kane Hall?

Posted by Colin | October 23, 2007 11:08 PM
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Muslims Against Sharia congratulate David Horowitz FREEDOM CENTER and Mike Adams, Tammy Bruce, Phyllis Chesler, Ann Coulter, Nonie Darwish, Greg Davis, Stephen Gale, David Horowitz, Joe Kaufman, Michael Ledeen, Michael Medved, Alan Nathan, Cyrus Nowrasteh, Daphne Patai, Daniel Pipes, Dennis Prager, Luana Saghieh, Rick Santorum, Jonathan Schanzer, Christina Sommers, Robert Spencer, Brian Sussman, Ed Turzanski, Ibn Warraq and other speakers on the success of the Islamofascism Awareness Week.

Islamofascism (or Islamism) is the main threat facing modern civilization and ignorance about this threat is astounding. We hope that this event becomes regular and reaches every campus.

A great many Westerners do not see the clear distinction between Islam and Islamism (Islamofascism). They need to understand that the difference between Islam and Islamism (Islamofascism) is the same as the difference between Christianity and Christian Identity Movement (White Supremacy Movement).

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Posted by Muslims Against Sharia | October 26, 2007 2:43 PM

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