Sister Toldjah — whose totally non-racist blog title surely presages what is to come from our blonde-haired, blue-eyed Southern Antebellum — has just responded to CBS correspondent Lara Logan’s sexual assault in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution:
One of the many faces of bigotry
Lara Logan: “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands”
Posted by: S[ister] T[oldjah] on April 28, 2011 at 7:15 pm
The CBS News correspondent, who was viciously sexually assaulted back in February, spoke to the New York Times about her horrific ordeal:
Thence follows a righteous chunk of said column. And then this:
As much as I think it’s great that she’s speaking out about what she went through in an effort to help give more attention to the similar experiences other women journalists have gone through, I have serious doubts as to whether the underlying issue surrounding what happened – which is the anti-female culture that is Islam (as I and my co-blogger have discussed in detail here many times) will get the much-needed attention that it deserves. Female journalists report all over the world in the middle of crowded streets full of demonstrators, but they’re rarely subjected to sexual assaults like the one Logan suffered through.
Yes, the issue of sexual crimes against female journalists needs to be addressed strongly and condemned roundly, but so do the root causes of why sexual crimes against women happen so often in Middle Eastern countries – where the assaults are not considered “crimes” at all but instead “rights”… according to Islamic law. But to do that means the dangeous political correctness that has prevented a worldwide brutally honest discussion as to the inherently evil “religion” that we know as Islam would have to be thrown by the wayside, and that’s not going to happen, because too many politicos and other prominent public figures have either have turned an ignorantly blind eye to the evils of the Islamic “faith”, and/or have a vested political interest in pandering to the Islamic community and assorted PC types both home and abroad who really believe Islam is a “religion of peace” – contra to extensive evidence that points in the opposite direction.
Maddening.
When you hate enough, deeply, passionately, enthusiastically, ANYthing can be turned into another validation of your hatred: even the grotesque attack on Lara Logan by Egyptian forces who did not want foreign reporters telling the truth about what was going on in Cairo. It is merely another proof of your psychotic fixation.
That’s textbook bigotry. And, unlike the current notice that “birtherism” is barely masked racism and bigotry, there probably aren’t a billion liberals in the world being tarred with this ultimate demonization.
And bigots like Sister Toldjah fan the flames of what they hope to be a religious war to destroy Islam.
Good fucking christ.
The last is, of course, a horrible pun, since she undoubtedly has an Invisible Friend named Jesus who is telling her that wanting all Muslims dead or converted by the sword is the culmination of the Biblical Jesus’ teachings before he was tortured to death …
In the name of religious bigotry.
Bigotry is going to get a lot of people killed, and anti-Muslim bigotry is every bit as dangerous and pernicious as White-on-Black bigotry, or any other form of insensate hate that an enlightened society has been fighting against for decades and centuries.
Sister Toldjah is no less a Klanswoman for her lack of a hood, although she’d probably look better with one on.
Certainly more apropos.
Courage.
Since Sister Toldjah is a woman, I would think that she would be outraged that Lara Logan got raped. The where and the when shouldn’t matter, but I guess if you’ve got an ax of anti-Islam sentiment to grind, you forget that it could happen to you, and that you don’t have to be in a country where Islam is the major religion, either.
I think when the only pain we care about is our own pain, we are happy to use the pain of others even though we’re exploiting their pain for our own selfish reasons. Which is monstrous, if there were enough self-awareness to see it. But almost by definition there isn’t.
When we begin to understand that pain that we feel, we have compassion for the pain of others. I don’t see any compassion here, Margie.