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Palestinians in Israel (as citizens) have more legal rights than those in most Arab nations and generally have more economic opportunities than Palestinian refugees in Lebanon or Syria. There are about 2 million Arab Citizens of Israel .

Many Arab countries have hosted Palestinian refugees since the creation of Israel in 1948 and subsequent wars.…[Read more]

A funny thing about the conflict in Israel and Gaza- the myriad groups and organizations that end in FOR PALESTINE. There are all of these liberal causes that hitch their wagons to For Palestine. Blacks, queers, environmental, climate change etc.

Any Arab/Muslim groups there is nothing disingenuous or incongruous. From the outset Arab Muslims…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
She was living in a “safe” country when I knew her.

That’s good to know.  She was courageous.  I was afraid of what might happen to her.

We were in contact once. She was living in a “safe” country when I knew her. I have no reason to suspect that she does not continue to live a ‘normal’ life. I can only imagine her walking with her head held high, as befits her character.

Ideology is antithetical to free thinking.

Simon blasts it out of the park.

It is however superb for robotic regurgitation.

jakelafort wrote:
It is awesome you are not an ideologue.

Ideology is antithetical to free thinking.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many Muslim women still need permission from male relatives for the little things……. like marriage, travel (in some cases), choosing what to wear, gaining an education, speaking, singing, reading and even getting certain medical procedures done. But apart from that……

This paper, from the (weirdly virus-r…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Remember Nessrriinn from the old TA site?

Was she the lady from Saudi Arabia?  What happened to her?  Is she in prison, for being normal?

I do remember that Reg.

Really well done.

Simon,

I despise those things. Racism, sexism, injustice. Yet I would never want any association between myself and progressivism. Progressivism is a font of racism, sexism and injustice. It is awesome you are not an ideologue. Unfortunately the current sweeps up a great many of us and the ideology takes precedence over human rights. And that is…[Read more]

Remember Nessrriinn from the old TA site?

Fellow Unbelievers

More on food:

If the food truck and the ice cream wagon where you have got your lunch for years have paperwork for an L.L.C., they are Corporate Food. Porky Pig and The Good Humor Man are Bourgeois Kulaks.

If you have ate there for years without gastonomic incident, shut up and enjoy your Street Corn Tamales and your…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
So the daughter pipes in that she was amazed at university that the first thing she was taught was that we should not judge Islam for these practices. The daughter goes on to describe it as a betrayal of human rights.

Do you have this video?  Of course, I deplore making excuses for the medieval abuse of women.  I would be i…[Read more]

Many Muslim women still need permission from male relatives for the little things……. like marriage, travel (in some cases), choosing what to wear, gaining an education, speaking, singing, reading and even getting certain medical procedures done. But apart from that……

Simon,

Islam as to women is a great deal more than just beating women as a cultural/religious norm. It is gender mutilation. It is arranged marriages. It is tolerance of old men molesting/raping little girls. Marrying little girls. Denying education. Not giving opportunity to females beyond bearing children. Not treating mental illness that…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Tell me Simon if you are okay with the cultural relativism that protects abusers and punishes the abused.

No, I’m not OK with beating women, or for making excuses for it.  Do people really do that?  Can you find evidence of a “lefty” defending abuse of women by Islam?  I’m not denying it happens, but I’ve never seen it in the fl…[Read more]

Jake,

All of those innovations from Israel are Sowell-ian trade-offs that are oh-so-well-played trade-UPs.

These innovations are continutions of The Green Revolution, which was a great step forward for humanity that saved over one billion lives in the 20th Century.

In justice, the Owl houses are where the Middle Agers got it right and today the…[Read more]

Enco,

Punk soul brother. I read Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, when i was a kid. It was sort of THE ecology book. It may be dated now idk but one of the takeaways was how evolution is hastened and the impact of pesticides is to require stronger pesticides. Short life span. 1000 pests. 3 survive. Survivability passed on.

On a strong hunch that…[Read more]

“Put it this way, different people value different norms and goods, and some of those norms/goods are incompatible with each other.”

So sez Simon.

Islamists are attempting to impose their norms on the world. Lefty’s are cooperating. Nay, helping Islamists.

Give this 11 minute vid a look see. Tell me Simon if you are okay with the cultural…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
But one thing i will touch on is how wrongheaded it is to decide that morality is always relative and that we should not judge others who make us retch and puke purple and green chunks because of their vile norms.

Put it this way, different people value different norms and goods, and some of those norms/goods are incompatible…[Read more]