Author Topic: Our selective support for oppressed women  (Read 871 times)

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Offline SirJohn

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Re: Our selective support for oppressed women
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2018, 03:49:13 pm »
More like your gratuitous insults made your contribution pointless and irrelevant.

'hand-wringing progressives' is hardly a phrase to make people cry, and saying you and others would be squealing like pigs if Israelis bombed people isn't an insult at all, it's a prediction based on past behaviour.

The reason Israel gets singled out for all this **** is because of anti-semitism, pure and simple. The Arab countries, including Egypt, do worse all the time. We don't hear progressives coming on here to whine about it. Instead you make excuses and try to pretend life over in Egypt is peachy kean for women, Christians and everyone else.
Yet some Palestinian teenager assaults IDF soldiers, neither of whom hit her back, and she gets arrested and suddenly you're waving this aloft as an indication of the West's hypocrisy in not condemning those damned Jews. PHht. Hey, do you think she wishes she was arrested by Egypt instead?

Members of the security forces, particularly the Interior Ministry’s National Security Agency, continued to routinely torture detainees and forcibly disappeared hundreds of people with little or no accountability for violations of the law. The disappearance, torture, and death of Italian doctoral researcher Giulio Regeni, probably at the hands of security services, highlighted these abuses and caused a diplomatic rift between Egypt and Italy.

Officers of the National Security Agency routinely tortured and forcibly disappeared suspects with few consequences. Many of the detainees who suffered these abuses were accused of sympathy with or membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, which the government named a terrorist group in 2013 but has remained the country’s largest opposition movement.


https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/egypt


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