Calling On Keith Ellison
Posted on January 8, 2007
On our radio show Saturday, Misha and I discussed how the far-left always screamed about international human rights but seemed to always come out against liberating countries that live under tyranny. The vast majority of Middle Eastern countries have terrible human rights records yet groups like the ACLU busy their time accusing America. The U.N., of course, stands by and does what they do best…nothing. Freedom of religion is unheard of in most of these countries and the tolerance preached by the left in America is non-existant. The oppression and mistreatment of women is attrocious, yet the left are so stuck in the anti-war/pacifist mode that when talk of liberating them comes about they are against it on the grounds of being against violence. Well here is an opportunity for a non-violent way to aid in liberating the oppressed.
Dymphna of Gates of Vienna is calling on Rep. Keith Ellison to take advantage of his unique position as our only elected Muslim for a very positive opportunity.
There is no doubt that you, as our sole Muslim member of Congress, could bring to bear a high level of influence on Iran and other Muslim countries, in order to make the situation for women in these countries more humane.
If you were to use your bully pulpit to speak out about the plight of women under sharia law — especially in Iran and Pakistan — you would be a powerful influence for good.
Your wife is a professional, a teacher of mathematics. She has obviously been a helpmeet and an equal in your rise to national office. To make the politics into the personal, consider the alternative fate of your wife, her career, and her life, were she living in a Muslim theocracy such as Iran. As you well know, her existence would be precarious and her career non-existent. You have only to question former professional women like Iranian expatriate Manda Zand Ervin, the founder and president of the Alliance of Iranian Women, to know that your family’s Muslim identity and security in America do not flow from the ideas laid down by the Muslim Brotherhood. Instead, your family’s safety originates here, in your native country, where all women have the access to the same opportunities your wife has used to educate herself and to contribute to the commonweal of Minnesota and of the United States.
Muslim women in other countries live under the yoke of a draconian hatred towards women qua women. Their original sin lies in being born female, and thus being worth half the value of a man.
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This law is not something your leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, would understand or condone.Thus, Rep. Ellison, your public stance on the predicament of Muslim women is vital to the progress of reforming the view many Americans have of Islam at the moment. The news from Afghanistan and Iran is unutterably sad: the number of women choosing suicide over the prospect of living under sharia is increasing dramatically. A nine-year-old girl chose self-immolation rather than face a forced marriage that meant a lifetime of virtual slavery. Can you imagine your child faced with such a choice?
I am spreading the word on this and extending it to any and all politicians. While Rep. Keith Ellison has the unique position to be a leader in this area, it is definitely a worthy enough cause for others to follow.
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The UN and not the US is the far left’s instrument of choice to preach and advance their political agenda under the guise of human rights. The US is too prone to have a more capitalistic and less socialistic outlook which the far left abhors.