Showing posts with label middle-east. Show all posts
Showing posts with label middle-east. Show all posts

Saturday, March 03, 2012

Misogyny


Seriously. Why has misogyny become one of THE political campaigning issues of current times?

One of the few shreds of legitimate criticism that Westerners have made of Middle-Eastern and Islamic cultures over the last 10 years, is of the status and treatment of women in those societies. And yet, right-wing conservatives in the West seem hell-bent on rivalling that. ???

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Robert Fisk :
When Tunisia announced that it was free, Mrs Hillary Clinton was silent. It was the crackpot President of Iran who said that he was happy to see a free country. Why was this?