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Afghan Women vs rich, white, middle-class feminists

By Effendi | Published: October 8, 2011

Never mind the stupidity of Madeleine Bunting and other rich, middle-class guilt-trippers, Afghan’s womens’ rights are worth fighting for today more than ever before. The war in Afghanistan is not, as she suggests, a war of revenge. Nor are human rights of Afghan womens’ being used as an excuse to wage war

This isn’t just history, the conflation of western aggression and women’s rights has underpinned the last 10 years of conflict. Laura Bush has expanded on her 2001 themes at regular intervals ever since. In 2010, Time ran a cover photo of a girl, Bibi Aisha, whose nose had been cut off, and used the headline: “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan”. As my colleague Jonathan Steele points out in his fascinating new book, Ghosts of Afghanistan, Bibi’s story didn’t quite fit the template of brutal Taliban.

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If you can’t stand behind our troops Salma Yaqoob, get in front of them

By Guest | Published: February 5, 2011

This is a guest post by Mr Happy

What I’ve never understood about zealous left-wingers is their hatred for the military. Maybe they think the military has a massive influence on foreign policy or maybe they just hate our brave men and women and their heroic efforts in the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t know.

But I do know that Salma Yaqoob’s snub of, military hero, Matt Croucher was perhaps the most tasteless action of a far-left politician in some time.

Mr Croucher was awarded the George Cross after he threw himself on a grenade to protect his colleagues. The man is an essay in bravery. His brave actions almost certainly saved his colleagues from injury or death, yet he amazingly survived the attack himself.

He was invited to the Council chambers of Birmingham Council, completely as a non-political actor. He was, rightly, awarded with a standing ovation from spectators and council members except Miss Yaqoob and her fellow hack, Mohammed Ishtiaq.

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The Guardian’s Miserable Hat Trick

By Faisal | Published: August 5, 2010

The Guardian is on a roll this week.

We’ve already seen two articles by its readers editor, Haroon Siddique who, firstly, came up with this miserable tosh urging Muslims to boycot Israeli dates this Ramadan but which was little more than an advocacy piece on the pro-Hamas Islamist group, Friends of al-Aqsa . This was then followed by an outrageous piece of dishonest reporting and outright fabrication packed into this article about a poll conducted by the Islamist group iEra.

You might have though that from here things could only get better. Wrong.

Earlier this week came this piece of absurd reductionism by Priyamvada Gopal – a fashionable, post-modern, post-colonial, feminist response to this image of the Taliban’s violence against women in Afghanistan published by Time.

Gopal’s article is quite easily the most despicable piece of relativist horseshit I have read on the Guardian. It contains deplorable, crudely argued passages like:

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Pakistan leads the War on WikiLeaks

By Effendi | Published: July 27, 2010

The Pakistan government has gone into damage control mode after the evidence of the ISI’s involvement in Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan was exposed and confirmed on WikiLeaks. The Pakistan ambassador to USA, Husain Haqqani has penned an article in the WSJ, to undermine the veracity of the reports.

Ambassador Husain Haqqani and the ear of US envoy Richard Holbrooke

The documents circulated by WikiLeaks do not even remotely reflect the current realities on the ground. For example, a retired Pakistani general is named as the master planner of the Afghan Taliban’s strategy. But this is a man who hasn’t held any position within Pakistani intelligence or the military for more than 20 years. For its part, Pakistan’s current leadership will not be distracted by something like these leaks. We have paid an unprecedented price in blood and treasure over the last two years. We will not succumb to the terrorists.

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