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“Cultural Imperalism” and Sati (Suttee)
Posted: March 3, 2011 by datechguy in culture, internet/free speech, opinion/newsTags: dan collins, frankfurt shootings, history, imperialism, radical islam, reality
At Piece of work in progress Dan Collins talks about the “consequences of the Multicult”
The liberals who comprise the MSM majority have in essence adopted the stance that insistence on religious tolerance in Muslim majority nations is an undue imposition of Western standards of human rights on foreign states and cultures, which is an expression of lingering imperialism, and thus bad, while millions of Muslims and non-Muslims suffer under the yoke of Islamist fundamentalism in all of its forms. One of the most egregious examples is the media’s treatment of the Muslim Brotherhood, but there are many more.
In consequence, the United States stands by as ethnic cleansing is accomplished versus Copts and other Christian minorities in Muslim majority nations.
Not two minutes ago on Morning Joe (I’m writing this at 8:37 a.m.) Mika mentioned the killing of two soldiers at the Frankfurt airport. They stressed “Germany” and the “last time there was a shooting in Germany” but they were unwilling to talk about what was brought up on MSNBC Europe’s own web page:
Family members in Kosovo described the suspect as a devout Muslim, who was born and raised in Germany and worked at the airport.
Nope, nothing to see here, not a thing going on. The Catholic minister in Pakistan murdered? No comment, nothing to see here. Copts killed in Egypt, none of our business.
Our unwillingness to defend our cultural values is dooming millions to oppression. Consider this story from history:
General Charles Napier held the offices of Governor of Bombay and Commander-in-Chief of India for the British Empire,was confronted with the tradition of Sati (or Suttee) where the new widow of a deceased man would be thrown alive on his funeral pyre. Napier forbade it, and when leaders of the community objected saying it was their custom. Napier with all the confidence of an 1850’s Brit with this classic answer (via Mark Steyn’s book America Alone)
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
Sati or Suttee has been gone from India for 160 years. How many widows did not die in excruciating pain because of this example of “cultural imperialism”?
And what is the situation now? Now we’ve reached the point that the same British who stopped Suttee in India now have unofficial “gay free zones” in their capital imposed by unassimilated Muslims who are imposing their own “cultural imperialism” right back at em.
I think Steyn nailed it with this sentence:
Multiculturalism was conceived by the Western elites not to celebrate all cultures but to deny their own.
Until we look this straight in the eye we will be seeing more headlines like this:
German prosecutors said on Thursday that Islamic radicalism may have motivated a Kosovar to open fire on an American military bus at the Frankfurt airport, killing two United States airmen and wounding two others.
And it will be our own fault.
Boy when IowaHawk gets serious
Posted: March 3, 2011 by datechguy in mediaTags: education, iowahawk, statistics, wisconsin
he is devastating:
To recap: white students in Texas perform better than white students in Wisconsin, black students in Texas perform better than black students in Wisconsin, Hispanic students in Texas perform better than Hispanic students in Wisconsin. In 18 separate ethnicity-controlled comparisons, the only one where Wisconsin students performed better than their peers in Texas was 4th grade science for Hispanic students (statistically insignificant), and this was reversed by 8th grade. Further, Texas students exceeded the national average for their ethnic cohort in all 18 comparisons; Wisconsinites were below the national average in 8, above average in 8.
Perhaps the most striking thing in these numbers is the within-state gap between white and minority students. Not only did white Texas students outperform white Wisconsin students, the gap between white students and minority students in Texas was much less than the gap between white and minority students in Wisconsin. In other words, students are better off in Texas schools than in Wisconsin schools – especially minority students.
The Statistics are here from the NAEP standardized tests and they make a fool of Krugman and the Economist articles.
Just a reminder, Teachers in Texas don’t have collective bargaining rights.
In the old days it was always known that Jesters had the wisdom in the court, apparently it is still true today.
Am I actually seeing Morning Joe reporting on the media difference?
Posted: March 3, 2011 by datechguy in blogs, media, opinion/newsTags: broken clock, civility, double standards, media bias, morning joe, politico, reality, union, wisconsin, wisconsin protests
The difference in Wisconsin coverage that is, why yes, Politico wrote about the double standard concerning “signs”:
“The mainstream media’s professed concern with uncivil engages only when it is practiced by conservatives,” asserted the Washington Post’s conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin.
And conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, who has made her blog something of a clearinghouse of alleged union misdeeds, boasts she is doing “the reporting the tea party-bashing national media won’t do on the rabid outbreak of progressive incivility and violence at Big Labor protests across the country.”
and Morning Joe is talking about the double standard in the Wisconsin coverage.
They are not touching on the PHYSICAL stuff, nor did they show any extended clip with the union folks actually saying what they are saying but they did do a whole segment on the double standard and objected loudly to it.
It’s interesting to note they Politico didn’t embed any of the actual video, and Morning Joe didn’t play any of the audio.
This is very revealing, this means that the video and audio can’t be hidden, it means that it has spread on social networking sites and blog and getting out there. It means that Politico, forced to cover the story has decided to make it one about the media double standard. (a very valid story) instead of what the Unions and their supports are actually doing.
Even funnier is their defense of the media pointing to a single blog post at the NYT online:
In fact, the New York Times’ Michael Shear did write a blog post about the Wisconsin GOP’s slickly produced video, calling it “striking” for its juxtaposition of incendiary rhetoric from union protestors with liberal accusations about angry conservative rhetoric.
As I mentioned before, look at the actions to see what is happening, this story and Morning Joe’s coverage of it tells you an awful lot about who is actually winning this debate.
Update: It’s worth noting that they only touched on this in the 6 a.m. hour then dropped it like a hot potato.
