Fantasy Christian oppression vs. very real Muslim oppression: which do you think the Left is more upset about? That’s right.
“Laura Perrins: Islamism poses the real threat to the sisterhood,” by Laura Perrins, The Conservative Woman, April 29, 2017 (thanks to Inexion):
The novel, The Handmaid’s Tale by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, has been scaring the bejesus out of women since 1985. I am not going to give you the full summary – you know it. The US becomes a big evil Christian theocracy and after widespread infertility hits, only the few fertile women that are left must become Handmaids to the better families, bearing them children.
Fornication is punished by death, women cannot work and have to be covered and suffer from all round horror at the hands of the patriarchy (and evil conservative women).
The book is everything that feminists want women to believe is ‘just around the corner’.
What a load of horse manure. Thankfully, the only thing that came into being since 1985 is that we pay for everything electronically. If memory serves me right in the dystopian book the Government transfers unilaterally all the wealth held by women to the bank accounts held by their nearest male relative, something that was easy to do given the lack of cash.
But that does not stop numerous TV adaptations of The Handmaid’s Tale, the latest being this.
The book and adaptations generate many think pieces, warning us that we are just a Trump presidency away from such a theocracy even though Trump is the least socially conservative Republican president ever and the Christian Right was split on his election.
But sure, why should we let the facts get in the way of a good propaganda campaign, especially against Christians? And this book has been the most effective form of propaganda to keep women scared into submission and voting Democrat ever, I do believe….
But as this piece demonstrates, the liberals are too terrified to examine where the real threat to women’s rights comes from.
Tell, me again which extremist ideology executes gay men by throwing them off buildings?
What theocracy demands women must be covered and refuses to let them drive? What girls are at high risk of female genital mutilation? Are they the Mormons and Roman Catholics or hardline Lutherans?
No. The real threat to women’s rights comes from Islamism. But you will be waiting a long time before you read a feminist dystopian novel about the threats to American women from such a theocracy. If you did it would be immediately slammed as Islamophobic.
Paul N Silas says
I saw this trash when it was a movie back in the 1980’s. Even the great actor Robert Duvall stunk in it.
Problem is, having spent some time around “Snow Flakes” in my younger years, I have found that they will believe anything which supports their unreal point of view.
Maybe it’s all the pot they smoke?
Elaine McMurren says
The elderly ones are the absolute WORST. Decades of prescription drugs and lesbian sex have left them subhuman and utterly brainless.
Aloka says
lesbian sex makes you subhuman and brainless? you mean all lesbians are subhuman and brainless? bigoted much?
cashu says
Maybe not brainless, per se, but certainly perverted, sick in the head and, quite possibly subhuman… fer sher
However, having said that, I would be more than willing to try to “flip” a lesbian, for the simple reason that if I can get a kiss, I can be reasonably sure they haven’t been smokin’ a pole anytime lately. If you want a good watch, try “A Bottom on Top” (2007). Hilarious!!
Milo says
Whoa, ease up on the pot. I’m a Christian but I am also an epileptic and the worse seizure I had experienced, put me in a comma for nearly a month. That was 20 years ago, a time I daily lived in fear. 19 years ago, I did some research on the medical benefits of marijuana on seizures and found that in the 1800s it was used in asylums to control the seizures of patients. I presented my findings to the California State Medical Association and received 100% approval for its use. As i stated before, that was 19 years ago and for that entire period of time, I have been seizure-free.
Don’t demonize a gift from God that has medical value with zero side affects and zero deaths from its use.
cashu says
Very well said. There are two sides to the marijuana controversy, there being two (or more) entirely different motives for using it. It’s a shame that the official establishment has to see everything in terms of black and white, without consideration for the potential good that exists if any substance and its properties are carefully considered. Everything in God’s cornucopia of potential pharmaceutical substances has merit in currently well understood ways, as well as potential for good down the road when future discoveries are made. After all, if Fleming had simple said, “Ach Tooey… mold!!” and threw out the dish without examining it, we would not have the benefit of penicillin. Even opioids have great benefit for many desperate people, despite the egregious misuse of them by idiots…
Michael says
What they fear already exists in every form described: Islam. Bizarre they insist that it’s Christianity that is to be feared.
The destruction of Christianity has long been on the table for the powers that be. It’s one of the only things, perhaps the only thing, that stands in the way of civilization no longer being civilization.
mortimer says
Michael wrote: “What they fear already exists …” in the form of Islam.
And yet, preposterously, they do not permit themselves to see the parallels between Islam and ‘The Handmaid’ storyline.
The Leftards are intellectually dishonest to the point of denial the misogynistic Islamic realities staring them in the face.
Blangwort says
If they did this about Islam, the producers, writers, actors, and directors all know their necks would literally be on a chopping block.
BC says
Christianity is doing a good job of destroying itself. Especially the RCs. With its leader turning a blind eye
virtually to the persecution and massacre of Christians in the ME and Africa. Its leader’s refusal to allow contraceptives to prevent the spread of Aids, and limit family size of poor people. The poor being the section of the following most likely to obey the priests. The CofE et al follow much the same plan. ‘Reaching out’ they call it. Do they notice that Islam is not ‘reaching out’ to non Muslims except to insist that they convert to them! Often in some countries I do not need to name on pain of death.
The pope seems to think by playing footsie with Islam the extremists will start to love Christians. No they will not because the majority of Muslims hate Christians and all other infidels. The readiness to kill them on the slightest pretext illustrates this.
Tom Thumb says
I’m wondering if it is actually ‘FEAR’ or political correctness that motivates these idiots into attacking Christianity relentlessly while ignoring the massively worse tenets of Islam. What do you guys think?
Guest says
The plot of this revolting book isn’t a warning its to scare people to the liberals. This would type of world would happen if the democrats were in charge. The Reupblicans would stop it
Kepha says
Margaret Attwood is the Julius Streicher of post-modern pseudo-liberalism; and _Handmaid’s Tale_ is her _Der Stuermer_. While I’m not calling for anything to be burnt, I refuse to watch the series or the film, since I’ve already read the book and consider it a horrid piece of scurrilous, slanderous hate-mongering.
Penny says
The threat is real!
There is NO such word as islamophobia!!!
All you have to do is research islam in Europe!!!!!!!
Georg says
Seems like the only “Islamophobia” comes from leftists. Their fear of criticizing it is irrational. Methinks much of the phobia has to do with the unacceptable (to leftists) image of a [often] white/”privileged” person criticizing a downtrodden/[often] brown person. There’s a bigotry of low expectations, political correctness, and self-loathing which results in something of a paradox when the living antithesis of everything they nominally stand for is right there and they champion it. Emotion > logic. How sophisticated.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer reminds us of a modern mythical scenario in which the customs of Islam are SUPERIMPOSED over American Christianity creating futurist nightmare which is now arriving in Western countries through PURE ISLAM.
PURE ISLAM has all the misogynistic elements in “The Handmaiden’s Tale” and many more, but Leftarded DENIALISTS refuse to see misogyny WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT.
Feminists like Germaine Greer always seem to have an absurd, whitewashing rationale to explain away Islamic misogyny, forced child marriage, repression of women’s rights, second-class status for women, gender apartheid, theocratic patriarchy, theocratic violence against women.
It is clear that modern feminists are part of broader ideology that plans to destroy European males and replace them with males from Muslim countries.
Feminists are thus merely bringing Islam to the West and doing nothing to improve the rights of women.
mortimer says
Feminists are actually encouraging the creation of Western societies that will be very similar to that seen in ‘The Handmaiden’s Tale.’
Oliver says
I never heard of the book.
But one thing that some of the snowflakes complained about (after the election) ; WOMEN, MOST SPECIFICALLY WHITE WOMEN VOTED FOR PRES. TRUMP BECAUSE– DRUM ROLL– ” THEY WERE AFRAID TO SEE A WOMAN SUCCEED”.
I don’t know where that crap came from. NOR DO I KNOW HOW IT CAN BE APPLIED TO A MASS OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, ACROSS 50 STATES, PLUS THE TERRITORIES, D.C., ETC.
(as per a WSJ political editor- take out FIVE counties in NYC and the LA Cal area, and Pres. Trump has the popular vote. Note: Cal. , no picture ID required; and -go back to the primaries- NYC UNILATERALLY TOOK 125,000 VOTERS OFF THE VOTING ROLLS- but -as far as I know-no party affiliation was given, nor was there any mention if rectified)
Most (almost all) of the women that I know voted fro Trump–nothing against a woman succeeding, just not H R Clinton.
Back to this– weird story.
perhaps the Canadian author had a glimpse into THE CANADA OF THE 21ST CENTURY, AFTER TRUDEAU.
gravenimage says
Oliver wrote:
I never heard of the book.
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I read it not long after it first came out, and considered it fairly stupid. I knew little about Islam at the time, but even so, I thought the place the dystopia in the book most reminded me of was Iran after the Islamic revolution a few years earlier, where women had to cover up in Chadors and could be stoned if suspected of adultery.
More:
But one thing that some of the snowflakes complained about (after the election) ; WOMEN, MOST SPECIFICALLY WHITE WOMEN VOTED FOR PRES. TRUMP BECAUSE– DRUM ROLL– ” THEY WERE AFRAID TO SEE A WOMAN SUCCEED”.
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Yes–this really pissed me off. I would have been happy to vote for many women–and, in fact, have voted for women for many political offices. Just not a big fan of Hillary Clinton. The same with Obama and the claim that any who didn’t like him were racist. I would have been thrilled to vote for African Americans like Allen West, and certainly would have strongly considered candidates like Colin Powell or Condoleeza Rice (neither of the latter are perfect on Islam, but it would depend who they were running against).
Mira says
“WOMEN, MOST SPECIFICALLY WHITE WOMEN VOTED FOR PRES. TRUMP BECAUSE– DRUM ROLL– ” THEY WERE AFRAID TO SEE A WOMAN SUCCEED”.
Don’t dump it all on the women.
Hillary lost the majority of the male votes in the Latino sector for the simple reason there is no way any self-respecting Latino male will let a woman tell him what to do, let along run the country.
Oliver says
By the way, if fornication was forbidden, how did the handmaidens become pregnant for the wealthy few?
Just artificial insemination?
(As a former secretary said, ‘ the old fashioned way to become pregnant is fun; artificial insemination is not”.
Gen Jones says
In the book a handmaiden is assigned to a high status male there is ritualized intercourse with the clothed handmaiden laying on the clothed wife while the husband has sex with the handmaiden. So she is basically a surrogate. I liked the book and the film with Aiden Quinn and Natasha Richardson but it’s just a dystopic fantasy with a twist.
Elaine McMurren says
ICK.
Jeanette says
Sounds like something the Muslims would do.
And a similar behavior by Abraham is what brought us the Arabs and thus, the Muslims.
Gen Jones says
This is another good (sarcastic) take on the praise for the series:
http://nypost.com/2017/04/28/sorry-handmaids-tale-tells-us-nothing-about-trumps-america/
gravenimage says
Brilliant stuff from Kyle Smith–and he gets the real-life links to Islam. Good stuff!
Max Publius says
Sounds like a challenge to good writers to get writing! An awesome story plot handed to you, a best seller awaits your literary hand. I’ll read it, especially if it gets slammed for telling the truth.
Mockingjay says
– “Dystopian novel”?
Meh.
– More like a pseudo-pornographic novel that allowed the author to express her (repressed) sexual phantasies IMO.
– But that aside.
Veka Fitzfrancis says
I read the Handmaiden’s Tale as part of my gender studies class (require for anthropology) easily the worst of Atwood’s works, sadly enough, and frankly it bored me.
What I cannot understand is how people can see the movie,/read the book and NOT come away saying,.”Wow, that sounds a lot like Islam.”
Michael says
You can only not come away saying ‘this is Islam’ … by having no knowledge of Islam, other than the name, that it’s somewhere in the Middle East, they have some terrorists, and really its’a religion of peace. The ignorance of Islam is deliberate on the part of education, government, and religion itself — ironic with religion, in that to investigate Islam, is to discover it’s not a religion, but an ideology, the most violent and murderous, by far, in all of history.
SAKOVKT says
“The US becomes a big evil Christian theocracy and after widespread infertility hits, only the few fertile women that are left must become Handmaids to the better families, bearing them children.”
Yeah, but was not an evil Christian theocracy which has already attempted something like that.
It was the Progressives during the Eugenics Era, roughly 1900 through 1970’s, although its hay day was between the world wars of the last century. They once said that the National Socialists were beating them at their own game, at one point.
Progs are afraid of their own shadows.
If they’d just climb down off their high horses, they’d find that the world really isn’t all that bad.
gravenimage says
“Liberals are too terrified to examine where the real threat to women’s rights comes from”
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All too often true.
Where women are *really* being forced to cover, used as sex slaves, and killed if suspected of fornication is in Dar-al-Islam–not by Christians.
Georg says
A bit off-topic, but mulling this article led to the thought:
If liberals genuinely believed in the principles they claim to, *and* cared for the welfare of Muslims to the degree they claim to, they’d be in a rush to deliver Muslim from Islam. Is this logic not sound?
Kasnar says
In another forum, I mentioned how this reiteration of the Handmaid’s Tale as a tv series might foreshadow what Sharia Law might look like for women if such could even conceivably happen in the West. A respondent to my comment suggested that I didn’t understand Sharia Law. ( Truthfully I don’t know much if anything but what I heard about it). She suggested Sharia Law is a lot like the Ten Commandments but for Islam. That is something I’ll have to investigate before I accept that.
boakai ngombu says
i understand that there are over 6,000 strictures to be observed when following SHARIA. nearly all aspects of life are covered an infraction may leave one with guilt but that is not damning; no adherent to SHARIA is pure. the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) might show favor and might not.
not at all like 10 Commandments YHWH gave Moses, which if followed completely, would make one righteous however no one except Jesus fulfilled the LAW. for His sake, guilt for sin is forgiven by God and faith to believe that is also given … freely
K. says
If one single book or movie can instill real fear, however irrational, into large parts of the population, maybe there is hope that eventually something is published that can instill a healthy rejection of Islam? Even if the means are somewhat around the bend. We may need to find rational ways to employ human irrationality.
garegin says
The TV is absolutely disgusting when it comes to strawmanning Christians. By wafching Law and Order you’d think Christians want rapists off the hook with a slap on the wrist.
JawsV says
It’s not “Islamism” (whatever that is) it’s ISLAM.
Dacritic says
It’s not “Islamism”. It’s just plain, old Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
People ask: “How can liberals, all for ‘diverse’ gay rights, or any woman, let alone ardent feminists, support Islam?”
Feminists and liberals in general are hypocrites.
Being perverse is their way to show how unique they are.
That’s why they pretend the best solution is to become part of the problem.
Governments encourage a dumbed-down population because their motto is always: “There’s No Money In Solutions!”
And people only send their children to college to compete in the marketplace; getting accredited is an expensive requirement for success, so they know in advance that all they’re really doing is paying other people who say they are smart, to say their kids are smart, too!
Worse, the “Publish or Die” mentality means that ‘researchers’ and ‘intellectuals’ have to LIE all the time, in order to continue extorting money from the suckers who fund their institutions of higher learning! That’s their “Progress!”
They have to lie by making up new, false words and false definitions to describe the very same, ages old things.
So it seems to sane folk that these left-wing idiots live in some bizarro world where up is down, and in is out.
But that’s really the only way they assume they’d be able to get to look different, unique, and cutting-edge! To preen and stand out in their gangs! As Dawkins noted, people want to stand out in order to promote their genes over others.
And unfortunately, just like with all other false-idol human ‘institutions,’ there’s only so many symptoms of “Do Not Attack First!” cause-and-effect scientific truths and logical facts one can address with “laws” of physics, and philosophy, only so many right answers, before one must veer off into exploiting the almost infinite number of sorta almost right,(but really wrong) answers, in order to keep up the pretense that the educators are actually doing something responsible to earn their pay and to continue to enjoy the right to govern others – the very same point in which, after whence reached, all human social organizations decline into criminality and their empires fall into ruin.
At best, educators are exactly like their delusively clueless students – in fact, in many if not most cases, they ARE still really only perpetual students: those who were too timid to try (or tried once and gave up after failing) to make it in the “outside” world of competitive business and free markets, so they decided to return to the nest (if they ever left) and from paid teaching assistants simply promoted them selves to full, tenured professorships and remained glued thereafter to their safely lucrative academic chairs.
Remember the old adage? “Those who can’t do, teach” (others endless excuses to re-name their failures, too)!
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Nathan says
I read this book in the late 1990’s in Melbourne, Australia for school. At the time our teacher told us that Atwood had written it as a comment on the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Sam says
Truth is simple: both liberals and muslims are brainwashed to hate América.
They are both enemies of freedom and must be dealt with accordingly. NOW!