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A recent controversy at Western University in London, Ontario, has shown that the Leftist/Islamic alliance, though for the most part firm and untroubled on both sides, has cracks that could easily widen into a chasm.
Many people over the years have asked me how two such disparate groups could work together in such harmony, but they certainly do. Sharia-observant, hijab-wearing Muslim women such as Linda Sarsour and Zahra Billoo of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are deeply involved with the radical Left, which welcomes them as “brown” (even though both are whiter than white) “sisters” from a “marginalized community.” Amid all the Left’s talk about oppression, not a word is said about the oppression of Muslim women, except to denounce those who dare to speak about it as having a “white savior complex.” It’s as if there is a tacit agreement that such oppression is off-limits even for those who have dedicated their lives ostensibly to aiding the oppressed.
The most likely reason why the Leftist/Islamic alliance is so strong is that both ideologies lend themselves to authoritarianism, and are dedicated to establishing a paradise on earth enforced by a reign of terror. The radical Left has imposed this reign of terror in France, Russia, China, Cambodia, and everywhere else it has held power; in Islam, Islamic law, Sharia, establishes Allah’s perfect law on earth, which is enforced by a slow-motion reign of terror involving the stoning, or amputation, or beheading of those who get out of line.
Yet the alliance is still puzzling, because the Left is famously dedicated to sexual libertinism, and getting weirder and more intrusive about this by the day, while Islamic law mandates a strict moral code, although one that differs significantly from the Judeo-Christian one. The inevitable cracks in the alliance that result from this showed last week at Western, when the school marked the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (which was May 17, in case you somehow missed the festivities) by posting on its Instagram account a colorful poster proclaiming “Celebrate the Power of Love.”
The poster featured the expected “diversity”: a blond white fellow in a close embrace with a bearded brown man sporting an exotic sort of cap, a heterosexual couple that managed to sneak in by being “of color,” a person of indeterminate gender smiling happily at his or her wheelchair-bound mate, and a couple of hijab-wearing women looking as if they were about to kiss.
That last image is, of course, where the trouble began. The London Free Press reported Wednesday that the poster had sparked a “backlash from London’s Muslim community that forced school officials to delete it.” The school received complaints that the Instagram post “was ‘inappropriate’ and ‘disrespectful’ because the hijab, an Islamic veil, has religious and spiritual connotations. Wrote one person: ‘Shame on you Western for such an insulting mockery post to my religion.’”
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gravenimage says
A Crash at the Intersectionality Intersection
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Pious Muslims murderously hate Gays. They figure they can protest this poster–which, incidentally, included women in Hijab as a sop to Muslims–and still have the Left whitewash Islam for them. And I’m sure, sadly, that they are likely correct.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Zahra Billoo has an unusual surname whose comical possibilities were exploited by the Bob & Ray character, Wally Ballou, roving reporter:
https://soundcloud.com/bobandray/wally-ballou (not very funny, in my opinion)
Linda Sarsour also has an interesting surname. According to
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/arabic-word-for-7bc8c1fa4b8f1306bcac938008695e64249504ed.html ,
the Arabic word “sarsour” (the French-style spelling of “sarsur”) mean “cockroach”.
Yet none of Linda’s paternal forefathers thought of changing their name to something more palatable.
Maybe in the Islamic world the cockroach is not so disfavored as the Geico gecko; see
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Prophet-Muhammad-PBUH-order-Muslims-to-kill-all-lizards?share=1
Jim says
The left presents itself as the party of peace. It allegedly can bring together opposites and harmonize them. Unlike conservatives, who allegedly want conflict. And the Muslim religion often presents itself as basically similar to Christianity. They even have Biblical figures in their religion, like Jesus and Mary. They print expurgated Korans with the scary parts omitted, to reinforce their peaceful intentions. And of course, the left has no commitment to telling the truth about its intentions or the intentions of its allies. So, any alliance would be unstable if the real conflicts come into bold relief.