THE DAILY BLADE: The Rules Of The Game
Asmahan Mansour, an 11-year-old Muslim girl, was ejected from a soccer game for refusing to take off her headscarf. According to Quebec Soccer Federation rules, the hijab violated a no-headgear rule and was enforced by the referee – also Muslim – for safety reasons. The girl was given the choice of removing the hijab or removing herself from the field. Her mother, Maria Mansour, told CBC Radio that “it's not right at all to not allow a Muslim girl who's proud of her religion to play soccer, a sport she loves so much." Apparently she does not love the game enough to follow the same rules everyone else has to follow.
You Say Potayto, She Says Potahto
FL State Sen. Frederica Wilson (D-Miami) has introduced legislation that would strike the term “illegal alien” from the state's official documents. SB 2154 would also apply to state officials, who may not use the term because, "I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said "An alien to me is someone from out of space," Wilsontells the News-Press (Ft.
Denying The Horrible Facts Of History
When The Stiletto was watching Hannity & Colmes the other day, one of the segments concerned the hateful, hysterical blog comments by posters lamenting the failure of the Taliban suicide bomber who reportedly tried to assassinate Vice President Dick Cheney outside the Bagram air force base in Afghanistan.
Citing New York Congressman Charles Rangel’s 2005 remark that the Iraq War “is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed” and Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman’s comparison of global warming denial to Holocaust denial, one of the guest pundits denounced the over-the-top propensity of the far left to equate people with whom they disagree as being “as bad as people who are denying the horribly facts of history for evil purposes.”
Equating the Holocaust with something several orders of magnitude less depraved than a crime against humanity has a diminishing effect on the Holocaust – but at least by using it as a benchmark of evil, Rangel, Goodman and others are acknowledging that it really happened.
Ironically, the comment on Hannity & Colmes decrying this tactic was made by none other than Armenian Genocide denier James Taranto, who himself denied the horrible facts of the Ottoman Turks’ systematic plan to annihilate a hated Christian minority in one of his columns.
Using a classic tactic of Genocide deniers,
According to Wikipedia: “Denialists often argue from ignorance, approaching the subject without acknowledging eyewitness records or previously made studies, or previous conclusions, and claim falsehood based on lack of direct evidence.” The Stiletto couldn’t have put it better herself.
And in a development involving one of
“He’s not just a guy who writes about the arts,” one Journal staffer said. “He writes opinionated, right-wing columns … It’s hard to see how the news pages benefit from someone like that.” …
“The people that move tend to be the ones that share the extreme right-wing views of the editorial page,” a Journal news staffer said. “Once they move, it’s hard to go back to the news side and claim to be unbiased. You’ve already shown your colors.”
"Right wing" is in the eye of the beholder, but time and again Varadarajan has shown his colors as a Genocide denier and Turkish apologist and it’s hard to see how the news pages will benefit from his unwavering pro-Turkish bias at a time when nationalists are stealthily and steadily gaining control of all branches of government, imperiling the Armenian minority to the greatest degree since 1915. Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was only the first victim; there will be many more, if his assassination in
For his part, Varadarajan expects “no difficulties” in his new assignment “except those associated with my own learning process.” The Stiletto hopes his learning process includes putting his reflexive and relentless pro-Turkishness aside after years of indulging his biases with abandon:
It is
The Stiletto would like to teach Varadarajan a few things to reduce the steepness of his learning curve:
† It is the misfortune of Armenians who lived in Ottoman Turkey that they were nearly annihilated.
† It is the misfortune of Armenians in modern Turkey that a prominent Armenian journalist can get gunned down in the street like a dog for insisting that Turks acknowledge the Genocide.
† And it is the misfortune of Armenians in the Diaspora that Turks, Turkish Americans, Turkish apologists and Moonies continue to deny this horrible fact of history (third item, The Daily Blade, February 23, 2007).
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April 4, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
The Wall Street Journal Online has been posting video interviews with its reporters and editorial staff on the events of the day. In this one, "Edwards Campaign Continues," (under the Opinion tab, in case the balky Brightcove link doesn’t load properly) OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto explains that John Edwards’ decision to continue his presidential quest after wife, Elizabeth, learned that her cancer has metastasized is impractical and not well-thought out because they may both be in denial. The 3:41 interview ends with an Easter egg-like surprise: After Taranto notes that the couple "is human after all," host Ed ... -
May 6, 2007
The Stiletto wrote:
On his show last week, Lou Dobbs accused advocates for illegal immigrants of using Nazi propaganda techniques: "They might as well work for Herman Göring. I mean, they're running so much propaganda, trying to confuse the debate, the national dialogue, by talking about immigrants rather than illegal aliens and legal immigrants. It's mindless beyond belief." The New York Sun reports that Gideon Aronoff, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, responded with a statement calling for the CNN anchor to be fired: "Comparisons to Nazis - especially in this ...
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