Answer: Women's rights.
In the time and place we now find ourselves, the most effective place to attack — the most effective place to discredit orthodox Islam — is on the topic of human rights for women. Islamic doctrine, as applied in Muslim-majority countries all over the world, and even as applied by immigrants in free countries, measurably and inhumanely restricts women's rights. Islamic fundamentalism and human rights for women are incompatible. Where you have one, you will not have the other.
But when we concentrate our forces on this decisive point, we must do it in a way that unites a huge majority of us, including some of those who still naively think Islam is just one of many similar religions. So this has to be done skillfully.
I believe that's what Ayaan Hirsi Ali has done with the documentary, Honor Diaries. The production value of the film is very high. The women chosen for the film are acceptable to mainstream multiculturalists. The film doesn't feel anti-Islam. I think most of the people who see this film wouldn't feel it attacks Islam. And yet it effectively exposes orthodox Islam as a cruel, outdated, extremely misogynistic ideology that should be marginalized, discredited, and disempowered wherever it shows its ugly head.
In other words, Honor Diaries has the potential to push a major axiom of the counterjihad movement into the mainstream. The film may cause this fundamental position of the counterjihad community to shed its "fringe" stigma forevermore.
The approach is brilliant and the film is outstanding. We should use it as a weapon against the ignorance that now keeps our population vulnerable to creeping Sharia.
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The film, Girl Rising, could be used the same way.
I used to think this.
And, I'm not saying I disagree now. I'm just not so sure anymore. My opinion of women has declined with the years. I don't think women are willing to stand up for themselves, and men have become decadent and lacking in chivalry as a reaction to Women's Lib.
The whole culture has been degraded. Women's Rights people are willing to stand up against White Conservatives, but not against Hip Hop rappers who call women bitchez and hos. Women's Rights Activists have also demonstrated they are unwilling to stand against Islam, FGM, or the Burqa. They are more likely to complain about the supposed problems with unequal pay and gay rights, and blame the problems on white males.
Once again, I am not saying you're wrong. I'm just telling you how my thinking has changed. I guess you could say I have become very discouraged. But still I press on.
It seems to me money and rule of law are the last bastion of reasonable men. I think, as I wrote in another thread yesterday, that it is possible the more vulnerable area is Halal foods and Zakat. They are literally Constitutional/Church and State issues and they have to do with money.
Three unrelated issues:
1. I agree on Halal food. We should start a campaign contacting food chains and making the specific question. Do they serve halal food. And threaten to stop eating at their place unless you get a confirmation that they do not. It is easy calling the manager and asking in person. I've done it before and the answer was NO.
2. I just contacted WMC (Women Media Center) whose members I despise, but suggested they contact the AHA Foundation and support their program. I was surprised to see that WMC has a program called "Women under Siege Project" which addresses precisely the the issues that also concern us. If we could get them on board, considered they are feminists and past liberal, who knows, we may get lucky.
3. My daughter texted me a while ago to tell me she is very happy in her school because guys open the doors for her ... Maybe there is still hope.
Some women don't stand up for women's rights. Some do. Some men lack chivalry. Some don't.
Things are constantly and simultaneously getting better and falling apart.
The world is in a constant, never ending battle: good versus evil, progress versus stagnation, freedom versus slavery. It will never end. All that is left for each person is to decide what side they will fight on, and "press on" as Pastorius put it. We'll never get a movie-ending in this fight. It goes on and on, which is depressing on the one hand, but what great story is without an epic battle? We need to find joy (or at least satisfaction and self-respect) in the fight rather than putting off joy until some future moment of success.
Words of wisdom. Thanks, CW.
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