Congressional Republicans and social conservatives across the U.S. raised an uproar in the wake the Arab Spring. They decried the rise of Islamist governments across the region and the declaration of sharia law, and lamented its expansion into the U.S.
While sharia supplanting American civil law seems far-fetched to most, Islamophobia has become a mainstay on Fox News' daily broadcasts, subtly ascribing events across the region to the Muslim Brotherhood. Interestingly, the Islamic leaders who aid the Muslim Brotherhood are as wont as American conservatives to make sweeping, outlandish, headline-grabbing statements.At the end of the day, are America’s conservatives that different from the Islamists they so often rail against? Their attitudes towards women's roles and rights and towards homosexuality can sound extremely similar.
or are they suffering from pot kettle syndrome, i'm voting for the latter. i wrote this on my blog 2 years ago,
Saturday, May 14, 2011
VERY SIMILAR
Hello, just thinking middle east men notorious for lack of women's rights, hmmmm republicans notorious for trying to take women's rights, right to choose,equal pay,denigrate them in porn showing full body, wonder why men don't "a little shy maybe" or fear of being laughed at can't really condemn them when you are so similar? TAKE A STROLL THROUGH YOUR MIND, YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT WHAT YOU MAY FIND, (courtesy of the Temptations) but oh so true
Posted by nick johnson at 7:51 AM
See if you can tell whether the statements below came from American social conservatives or from Islamist leaders. (Answers to follow.)
Quotes:
1. "The meaning of 'morality' is limited to such an extent that all those aspects which distinguish man from animal are considered beyond its sphere. In these societies, illegitimate sexual relationships, even homosexuality, are not considered immoral."2. "If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s personal bondage, despair, and enslavement."3. "There is no difference in killing the fetus in a mother’s womb or killing a person after birth."4. "If you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband."5. "The real place of women is the house."6. "[If] you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does... That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing."7. "A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband."
check out the article for the answers and see who wins the Mid East ideologues of the millennium.
ahh confirmation of my thoughts and the reading of the right wing male.
