Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera

These are three pieces of evidence, scraps from the trash heap of history compiled and gathered under duress and with much danger in order to be presented here today in the Museum of Liberalism. One is a fact, that a member of Hamas, a high 'moderate' member was also a student of comparitive religion, apparently what he learned in the west is that in comparing religions his was correct and that slaughtering others for religious reasons is 'tolerance' and 'diversity' and 'multi-culturalism' he is merely a symbol of how most Islamists and communists and Nazis thrived and learned their ways among the open society of the west, the west created them, we know that Mr. Al Bannah and of course Said Qutb all learned to hate the west from experiencing it and the 'hook' Imam Sheikh Abu Hamza who taught an preached at the FInsbury park mosque also worked as a bouncer for a strip club, just as Mohammed Atta spent his last night with the whores, indeed this is the culture of Islamism, the culture of hate and also, sadly, the culture of the west. Was not Nazism a western value after all?

The second piece of evidence is an article written by a Lebanese writer about Israel saying Israel shouldnt exist. but we dare to ask why should Germany exist? After all it committed the Holocaust, we would like to know why the US should exist in the place of the 500 nations of American Indians obliterated to create it, or we might wonder why England, why Iran, why Saudi, why Palestine, why Lebanon, Sir. Why indeed? So we know the face of liberalism, this academic is a fellow at an english acadeic institution, but then again this is the level of englsih academics, praise be to those who today fight the jihad against England, for it is after all not the england of Winston.

Thirdly the evidence offered is that of a class taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about women in Islam, by a jewish wmen from the west, yes taught as part of the 'summer middle eastern institute'. Well we might wonder why it is that it somehow always has an excuse for why women are second to men in Islam in terms of testimony, why women inherit less, why women must cover their hair(after all perhaps men should wear burkas and women shoul work) and why women should be forced to stay home, be circumsized and virgins at marriage while the man dresses as he pleases and attends the strip club and marries multiple wives. We wonder why the women must appear veiled, why she cannot drive or travel alone without permission, why she must have 8 childen, why she may be divorced for not reason but herself may never divorce without the consent of the man. We wonder why all these things exist and they exist to one degree or another among all Muslims(save apparently the Turks in 1924), but yet this liberal wants to excuse it all and blame 'chauvinism' or 'patriarchical society'. But somehow when women are inferior before the law in Israel it is the fault of 'judaism' or if they had thier feet bound in China it was due to those 'bad' chinese, and of course slavery in the americas was indeed about racism, there wasnt some convenient excuse to make our culture free from guilt and pretend that slavery was really 'liberating'. We ask and beg all lberals to move to Saudi arabia, that is their state, let us have our states where women can be free, where we can have free speech, and where people may do as they please and you who want to create the liberal-Islamist society, you who respect nations where everyone burns flags and burns effiigies and watched the protocols and where Mien Kampf is a bestseller, please go to saudi, leave us be to our freedoms. Because indeed one day you shall be plucked from your rich mercedes and your faculty club and your gated community and if not by conservatives then indeed by those very Taliban you love. Just because to this day terrorists havent struck your riches or struck your private jets and rich academic campuses where you pollute our minds doesnt mean your wealth and rich lifestyle are safe. But we estbalish this museum to document who the liberal was, because during the fall of rome they didnt document who really caused their fall, those from within, but we will have a record for future generations. People like Ms. Greenberg were given the vote and given the right to education and the ability to teach and the ability to unveil themselves and go out of the house by that same society they hate, that 'racist, fascist, nazi' society they hate so much, it was those dead white males they hate so much who gave them freedom. But one must wnder if perhaps it was a mistake. If 90% of those who enjoy freedom resent and hate it, perhaps they deserve the nazi dictatorship they always accuse the democratic state of being. After all then they might learn the difference. but it was the same liberals who destroyed the Weimer republic, tearing it down from within, destablizing the conservative government.


1) Deputy PM of Hamas was a former student of comparative religion in London

2)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750500.html



Aug 15, 2006



Israel should pack up and go

By Nadim Shehadi



What is the logic that will emerge from this war? If Israel can exist only by

destroying the neighborhood, then it's time to declare it a failed state. The

Zionist dream has turned into a nightmare and is not viable. If the future

holds more of the same, then the time has come to reconsider the whole project.

Every state has a duty to defend its citizens, but also it has a duty to

provide them with security and the two are different. The prospects are for more

destruction, fanaticism, violence and hatred. No unilateral separation can

isolate Israel from this, nor can the region or the world live with the

consequences. This seems to be the only choice, and Israel must do itself and

others a

favor and go away.



The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza shows a country deprived of all

humanity. The West Bank is unliveable, the population strangled into three

prison

clusters. Concrete barriers, barbed wires, bypass roads, human beings emerging

like rats from underground tunnels, daily humiliation from hundreds of

checkpoints. Gaza has been under siege since the population dared to elect

Hamas,

its infrastructure has been obliterated and its population has been driven to

despair in what now seems like a dress rehearsal for what was to come in

Lebanon.



Lebanon woke up on July 12 to a reality that can destroy the very fabric of

society. Divided between those who believe in a "riviera" with consensus

politics, power sharing and a weak state, and those who, like Hezbollah, see the

necessity of having a fortress to resist an evil and dangerous enemy. Israel's

behavior will see the logic of the latter prevail.



Yet the Lebanese system is resilient. PM Fouad Siniora, under the bombs, was

able to extract a consensus for a seven-point plan where the victorious

fortress accepted to go back to the political process to resolve the crisis.

Lebanon

still managed to challenge the U.S. and Israel through sheer persistence, and

in a diplomatic tour de force it was successful in steering the UN Security

Council toward a political rather than military solution. For the first time,

Arab foreign ministers have been mobilized and actively lobbied international

legality.



There is deliberate targeting of civilians: Israel can deny it, but at the

very least, those Israelis who are doing it know it is true. Over 17,000 people

were killed in the invasion of 1982, and the net result was the creation of

Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. There is a doctrine that says Arabs need to

be crushed, that they can be bombed into submission, that they will eventually

fall on their knees. It is the doctrine, not its application, that is flawed.

It says that by terrorizing the population, they will respect us and make

peace; it says that those who dare resist need to be eradicated through targeted

assassination and their supporters annihilated no matter what the cost. The

only lessons Israel learned is that it should do it better next time.



Three Arab countries have peace treaties or diplomatic relations with Israel,

most of the Gulf states have or had commercial bureaus, Saudi Arabia came up

with the King Abdallah plan offering Israel normalization - something that was

not achieved in nearly 30 years of peace with Egypt. Tunisia and Morocco have

excellent relations with Israel. Even rogues like Syria and Libya give out

positive vibes - the former desperate to resume peace talks unconditionally. The

region has a history of tolerance and coexistence; minorities, including

Jews, have survived and prospered for centuries. Israel is blind to any positive

developments, and this will soon make these positions and those who hold them

disappear, their stance untenable.



Lebanon can reconstruct airports, roads, bridges, and factories; bury and

mourn the dead, rebuild shattered lives. Israel has barely been there for 60

years, a millisecond in history, but enough time to judge the results. If the

fundamental moral logic is flawed, then it is time to give up, pack up and go.



The writer, a Lebanese economist, is an Associate Fellow at the Middle East

Program at Chatham House.



3)

Arab Women and Gender in the Middle East (SPME303)
Dr. Ela Greenberg

Misconceptions and stereotypes about MiddleEastern, Arab women abound, thanks to the media, which has perpetuated the western Orientalist perception of Middle Eastern women as being both inferior and exotic. The most extreme case is probably the heavily-veiled and oppressed women in the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. While the media blamed their situation on an extremist Islam, could it have been really an extreme form of patriarchy, coupled with a misuse and misreading of Islam? After all, in other parts of the Middle East, women are finding solace in Islam. In fact, they are reading equality into the Qur’an and creating a kind of “Islamic feminism,” after decades of experimenting with western-style feminism.
This course will examine stereotypes and misconceptions that we have of Arab women and gendered norms in the Middle East, and attempt to debunk them. By studying Middle Eastern, Arab women we can better understand the relations between men and women, and some of the major cultural forces within the region, namely Islam, patriarchy, and the West. Some of the issues to be raised include: how Islam relates to women; whether women’s education is the result of western colonialism or if it had earlier, Islamic precedents; whether or not women have any rights in marriage and divorce; women’s political participation and their association with western feminism; veiling and unveiling; the ideological attitude of Islamist movements toward women; and the creation of an “Islamic” feminism. We will use a variety of sources, including autobiographies, films, and primary documents.

Hours: 30 Credit Units: 2
Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 1:30-3:15 P.M.

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