Comment from the Graun article:
^Like at least one other person I saw in the comments here, I created an account just to respond to this article.
I've been irritated by the liberal response to Islam for some time now. I know nothing about Harry Potter, but Maajid Nawaz's term, "the Voldemort effect," comparing the west's response to Islam to a character that, according to him, is evil yet cannot be named, seems the perfect analogy.
I'm half Iranian and because of that I seem to be the only person who can say the slightest negative thing about the state of Islam today without immediately being called a racist. I have, of course, been called a racist, but this claim fades away once I question how it makes sense to call me a racist when I'm talking about a religion and not a race, and I mention that my father's entire family are muslim. The conversation fades into nothing when I further explore why my background matters at all.
The victim blaming response to Charlie Hebdo strongly polarized my opinion against much of the left, and The Guardian's reporting of it strongly lowered my opinion of them. They did, unlike many other news outlets, post the cover of the magaize. Smaller than a postage stamp on the page... but posted nonetheless.
Now this.
I happened to see the Femen incident on the rather heinous Breitbart, where I sometimes look to see conservatives have to say about things. I saw nothing from the Guardian immediately after it happened. Then a day later this moronic article pops up from this Miss Cleo silhouette who claims to be an expert on "Hislam."
This entire article is moronic and digusting but I take the most offense to her claim that these women were "forcefully removed" from the venue, when the video clearly shows them being beaten like gang members wearing the wrong color in the wrong part of Los Angeles. The intent of the people in the video was not to remove them but, obviously, to beat them to a pulp.
Perhaps we'll soon hear from Jessica Valenti that the muslims in the video, despite being part of the second largest religion in the world, are a highly oppressed class of people throughout the world who simply lashed out against these oppressors and couldn't control themselves because of the hundreds of years of white, european boots that have been pressed against their necks.
More likely, though, is that she'll say nothing until a white man spreads his legs too wide on a train somewhere and someone posts a high quality video to Youtube of him nonchalantly closing his eyes as he dozes off in front of the many women on the train he just oppressed.
Really. The Guardian, due to their financial structure, should be the best news outlet in the world. And I used to think they were. But this identity politics nonsense has devolved from irritating to dangerous.
These women were beaten for showing their breasts and shouting a few words into a microphone.
Let's report on that.
I've yet to see anyone at the Guardian come to the defense of poor (this is sarcasm) Bernie Sanders after he was brutally offended and his dignity was stolen from him on stage in front of a crowd of people by the Black Lives Matter movement.^