But I'm sorry, the real-life fact is that the Handmaid's Tale exists TODAY. A country where women can't drive, where they aren't allowed outside without a male 'guardian', where men can legally beat their wives, where they can be put to death for adultery if they are raped, where the priests who control the political system put homosexuals to death, and murder free-thinkers and atheists in the name of god. Where anyone who disagrees with the priests will be destroyed, and women who try to escape are captured and forced back into slavery.
It's called Saudi Arabia.
The Left is super-concerned about imaginary Christian theocracies but doesn't give the tiniest crap about the real version that exists today in the Muslim world, and that Islamists are trying to IMPORT into the West. They want to create The Handmaid's Tale in Europe and America, and the Left is cheering them and trying to censor and imprison anyone who disagrees with that plan.
That's the ridiculous double-standard hypocrisy of the entire Leftist movement: the very best chance of the Handmaid's Tale coming from where it already exists (all over the Muslim world) to the West will be if THEY help make it happen.
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Well, at least the handmaids have slightly more colorful clothes.
ReplyDeleteI don't see any signs of the Left here being fans of the KSA or Wahhanism. The pro-Big Business Right on the other hand... Never forget it was Thatcher who allowed the creation of sharia courts in the UK (less public spending, yay!).
ReplyDeleteOnly because you turn the other way, Thomas, as you have made clear with your numerous posts of this nature.
DeleteMaybe an extreme Left minority feels that way. I don't think Americans as a whole are ok with importing those aspects of Muslim culture.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm wrong, let me know (with sources cited).
Unfortunately the extreme Left currently holds sway over the Democratic Party and various college campuses and city councils.
DeleteWell, ALL the media portrayed the women's march as mainstream. I didn't see a single leftist condemn it. And yet women were made to use a logo of a woman in hijab, and encouraged to wear hijab, and told hijab is 'progressive', by an Islamist woman with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood who has explicitly said she wants to impose Sharia law in the United States (Linda Sarsour).
DeleteThat hijab thing sounds like the smallest possible splinter within that political event or movement. Like 1 in 1,000.
DeleteThis is the first I've heard of the Muslim Brotherhood in any way connected with that women's march. Hopefully, same goes for the entire Left.
It's interesting that you say that you hadn't heard of the MB's involvement in the women's march. It's been fairly well covered on many center-right news sources; you can quibble that these reports are faulty or incorrect, but they are certainly out there. That you haven't heard it may say something about your news sources.
DeleteVenger, the "hijab thing" was promoted by Linda Sarsour who was the UNQUESTIONED LEADER of the Women's March. I don't see how you can define that as a splinter. And Sarsour has huge connections, along with all of CAIR, with the Muslim Brotherhood. If you haven't heard of that, it's because you willingly choose not to.
DeleteSince then there have been numerous online campaigns from people who are allegedly "feminist" saying that "all women should wear the hijab in protest against islamophobia".
According to mainstream media, Americans are Far-Right-Wingers. Everyone else is Moderate-Center.
DeleteTo be fair often splinter groups have often led (or pretended to lead) protests and marches in order to make it look like they are more of them and to recruit/collect donations. The vast majority of folks in the women's march might have had no idea where Linda Sarsours true politics lay.
DeleteBut is the show any good? I haven't seen it but it sounds promising... Read the book when I was a teenager and it was okay.
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