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Source: Friday Open Thread
TGIF, EVERYONE. Just getting around to seeing this speech. DAMN <iframe width=”640″ height=”390″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/P4HxE-TaYOU?version=3
Source: Friday Open Thread
The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning Dorothy Rabinowitz is clearly no sellout, concluding a Sept. 29 column endorsing Clinton this way, “Her election alone is what stands between the American nation and the reign of the most unstable, proudly uninformed, psychologically unfit president ever to enter the White House.” Trump only claims to be a Republican. He might be a much better fit with the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Parts of the Nazi platform were vintage Trump: Only those born here count as real citizens; purge the country of foreigners; eliminate all press freedoms; annul treaties; and treat “positive Christianity” as the only real religion. Trump is no Hitler. But there are enough similarities in their rise to prominence to frighten us all.Those similarities were brilliantly noted by the esteemed and feared New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani, in a review of a new book titled, “Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939.” With nary a mention of Trump’s name, Kakutani told how the book described Hitler as an “egomaniac” who practiced “a doctrine of hatred.” Hitler, she wrote, “rose to power through demagoguery, showmanship and nativist appeals to the masses.” He was, she added, a man whose “manic speeches and penchant for taking all-or-nothing risks raised questions about his capacity for self-control.” Two peas in a pod. Trump’s the one without the armband.
Four taps of the microphone were all Michelle Obama needed to take down Donald J. Trump.“Hillary Clinton is tough,” Mrs. Obama, the first lady, told a crowd of several thousand in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. “See,” she continued, “I’ve watched her when she gets knocked down — she doesn’t complain. She doesn’t cry foul.”Tap, tap, tap, tap.It took a second for the audience to catch on: Mrs. Obama was mocking Mr. Trump’s complaint that a faulty microphone had hindered his performance in his first presidential debate with Mrs. Clinton. But as Mrs. Obama continued — “No, she gets right back up, comes back stronger” — the mostly young and heavily African-American crowd let out a deafening howl.They called her “the closer” during Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, like a go-to relief pitcher used sparingly but with devastating effect. Mrs. Obama preferred spending time with her daughters over attending political rallies. But when she was unleashed before a pivotal caucus or primary, her story of growing up on the South Side of Chicago and falling in love with a young community organizer had an unmatched, almost magical power to turn out voters, campaign officials discovered.Eight years later, Mrs. Obama is playing a similar role for the woman whom she helped her husband defeat in that race.
Source: Want to Know the Crucial Areas for Clinton? Follow Michelle Obama – The New York Times
Listen to Professor Snape ‘Lower your gaze’. These ignorant men do not even observe hijab themselves. Wearing tight jeans outlining their nether regions, short shirts, and not a daari (beard) in sight. Hijab is meant for all Muslims: I repeat ALL MUSLIMS. In the times of Trump, and the aftermath of the Burkini Ban, Muslim men should be dressing in solidarity with Muslimahs instead of addressing topics beyond their expertise. It’s frustrating when media outlets conduct experiments where participants challenge themselves to observe hijab. These participants are praised for being brave, while Muslimahs are being cornered by two opposing parties.Instead of telling women how to dress, why don’t you sit down and take a note on how you can be a gentleman. One is not liberated if she is forced to forfeit her right to meet a personal ideal. Beauty standards should not be defined by what we choose to wear. A piece of cloth should neither cheapen our bodies nor make them more valuable. It is the intention and devotion that makes wearing hijab valuable. Muslimahs must go against the norm to create an identity for themselves and expressing that identity through a variety of outlets.The trolls’ ultimate purpose is to create a divide within the female community. These crucial moments are when females should follow the motto ‘sisters before misters’. Having a united stance against bigoted ideas is an aspect of pro-choice activism: in other words the F- word: Feminism. Emancipating ourselves from a fatal patriarchal chokehold that seeks to scorn, scold and ostracize anyone with a vagina. Dawah is not just oral communication; the best dawah comes from actions, and practicing what’s been preached. No one can do it better then the Muslimahs on Youtube.
Source: A modest opinion – sister-hood magazine. A Fuuse production by Deeyah Khan.
Walker had written in February that the transatlantic slave trade had been an “African holocaust” and that “many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade.”Walker has since elaborated that the comments applied only to “a certain economic point, in specific regions where my ancestors lived.”Although she made the original comments in what she says was a private conversation among friends, unknown to her, her Facebook privacy settings at the time meant the comments were publicly visible.In May, the Israel Advocacy Movement sent the comments to pro-Israel paper The Jewish Chronicle, which then published selected excerpts from the conversation, creating another media storm.Without investigation, the Labour Party suspended Walker as soon as “the JC brought her comments to the party’s attention,” the paper boasted.Witch huntBut after an outcry from supportive Labour members, Walker’s suspension was lifted at the end of May.Party officials wrote to her saying she had no case to answer and she was readmitted, to the dismay of the JLM, which claimed she was an anti-Semite.Walker has since then been active in speaking out against the “witch hunt” of left-wing and pro-Palestinian Labour Party activists. This video of Walker was filmed at the Free Speech on Israel meeting at the Labour Party conference last week.
Source: Jewish anti-Zionist removed as Momentum vice chair | The Electronic Intifada
Nazi Paikidze, one of the nation’s best-ranked players, swore to boycott the 2017 contest, which is being held in Iran and will have an enforced Islamic dress code.Paikidze admitted that the decision will harm her career, but said that doing the bidding of an oppressive regime in order to compete is not a price worth paying. In an interview with the founder of My Stealthy Freedom, a campaign against Iran’s hijab laws, she said: “I will NOT wear a hijab and support women’s oppression. Even if it means missing one of the most important competitions of my career.”
Source: US Chess Champion: I’d Rather Sacrifice My Career Than Be Forced to Wear a Hijab | Heat Street
The AP spoke with more than 20 people associated with the show, including crew members and former contestants, about Trump’s lewd and lascivious behavior, and painted a portrait of an overgrown horny frat boy who had created the perfect atmosphere to indulge his own petty desires.Eight crew members all recalled that Trump “repeatedly made lewd comments about a camerawoman he said had a nice rear, comparing her beauty to that of his daughter, Ivanka.” Multiple cast members said Trump had female contestants twirl for him so he could ogle them; contestant Gene Folkes said Trump demanded female contestants wear shorter dresses that also showed more cleavage.Former producer Katherine Walker said Trump was obsessed with discussing women’s bodies during her five seasons there, and would speculate about which contestants would be a “tiger in the bed.”Another crew member who signed a non-disclosure agreement recalled that Trump asked male contestants whether they would sleep with a particular female contestant, then jumped in with his own responses: “We were in the boardroom one time figuring out who to blame for the task, and he just stopped in the middle and pointed to someone and said, ‘You’d f… her, wouldn’t you? I’d f… her. C’mon, wouldn’t you?,'” the crew member said. “Everyone is trying to make him stop talking, and the woman is shrinking in her seat.”Randal Pinkett, who won the program in December 2005, said Trump frequently discussed which female contestants he wanted to sleep with: “He was like ‘Isn’t she hot, check her out,’ kind of gawking, something to the effect of ‘I’d like to hit that.'”Accusations of sexism have followed Trump throughout his presidential campaign. Hope Hicks, the Trump campaign spokeswoman, issued a blanket denial to the AP’s report without getting into detail: “These outlandish, unsubstantiated, and totally false claims fabricated by publicity hungry, opportunistic, disgruntled former employees, have no merit whatsoever,” she said. “The Apprentice was one of the most successful prime-time television shows of all time and employed hundreds of people over many years, many of whom support Mr. Trump’s candidacy.”It seems like the overwhelming evidence of Trump’s casual misogyny may finally be catching up to him. After last week’s debate—in which Hillary Clinton brought up Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe winner whom Trump called “Miss Piggy” (because she didn’t fit his beauty standards) and “Miss Housekeeping” (because she is Latina)—Trump has seen a dip in his poll numbers. Politico writes that Trump’s inability to let Machado go, continually mocking her as the week went on, got through to voters:The episode broke through — 74 percent heard of Trump’s comments about Machado — and it appears to have hurt Trump’s standing with women. Fifty-five percent of women said it gives them a less favorable view of Trump, and 43 percent of voters said the incident makes them less likely to support Trump.Of course, there’s still the terrifying thought that 45 percent of female voters in their poll are okay with Trump’s disparaging of that woman.
Source: Wow, Can You Believe This Report That Trump Was A Sexist Pig On ‘The Apprentice’?: Gothamist
“It was a closed-door press conference where the public was not allowed to have access,” Melina Abdullah told LAist, adding that many of her group were still able to listen to the press conference on the radio while gathered outside.Abdullah said she became “aware of how they were engaging in this process of double assassination—first killing the body of Carnell Snell, and then assassinating his character. And so it was really, really important that we uplifted the stories of the community, pushed back against the posthumous character assassination of Carnell Snell, and gave our own narrative. We know that LAPD continues to kill our people and then justifies the killings with whatever they think makes those murders justifiable. That’s why we were there.””They demanded that we leave, but it’s a public building and we have the right to make our voices heard. As they issued the dispersal order, they kept shifting where they wanted us to disperse from and where they wanted us to disperse to,” Abdullah said, adding that at one point they were directed to move next to an arbitrary tree. “We’re not going to just submit to the will of the police that continue to kill us.”
Source: Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Arrested At LAPD Press Conference: LAist
Until the debate, Ms. Kinzel said she had not focused on much of what Mr. Trump has said. But during the debate, it became personal. She said she realized overweight people like her were now “just one in a line of people he wants to dismiss as losers.”
Source: 400-Pound Hacker? Trump Comments Fuel Dialogue on Fat-Shaming – The New York Times
Women leaders from 38 countries have sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urging him to initiate a peace process that would officially end the Korean War before he leaves office.The letter was co-sponsored by Women Cross DMZ, which organized a peaceful walk across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) last year and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, had promised such an initiative before taking office in 2007. North and South Korea technically remain at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
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