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Fifth Column
Duke Feminist Gives Thumbs Up To Taliban
2004-09-30
Tip of the hat to Andy Sullivan.
Afghanistan's Taliban was one of the most oppressive regimes in the world, and doubly so when it came to women's rights. For years, various activists expressed concern about the situation of Afghan women and supported the efforts of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan [1], to try and affect reform. So when the opportunity arose to overthrow that brutal regime, it was expected that RAWA activists would naturally back the insurrection.
[Johnny Carson voice] "Wrong, Fido breath!"
Posted by:Steve White

#16  And they say higher education broadens the mind?!
Posted by: Bryan   2004-09-30 2:02:09 PM  

#15  Doable!
Posted by: Anonymous6700   2004-09-30 1:04:16 PM  

#14  Cooke's Page From Duke Univ


She's normal looking. This is dangerous.
If they had a fuming Lesbian-looking angry-faced nitwit, replete with boy's hairdo, she could be easily ignored. This person is just taking her self too seriously (look at how many books published), and needs to get some fresh air off of the campus, and away from politics.


There was some "feminist" issue discussed on (p)MSNBC where the spokes-something was a college "professor" who fit the above description. No one takes that (what ever it is) serious, except "her" own sycophants...

Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-30 12:57:21 PM  

#13  Duke professor, Miriam Cooke, is a prime example of an academic deconstructionist. I'm sure her lectures and "logic" seem reasonable to her students . . . just like the deconstructionists' arguments, which appear here on Rantburg (under the guise of "militaristic" conservatism) seem. Just a little FYI.
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-09-30 12:48:06 PM  

#12  I think that this is the same dumb bitch that invited a convicted terrorist (blew up a room at the Capital Building in the '70s) to lecture at Duke. As a graduate of that once fine institution, it pains me to read this. It pains me even more that my nephew is a freshman there this year. I've told him to be on the lookout for asshats like this woman and to read Rantburg regularly for quick and easy rebuttals to the "arguments". Arrrrrrrgh!!!!
Posted by: remote man   2004-09-30 12:30:29 PM  

#11  This from IslamonLine. In its “Ask the Scholar” section.
Question:
As-Salamu `Alaykum! I was recently the president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at our local university. My term just ended last week because of our new elections. When I was president, our MSA brothers all dropped out. Though they never mentioned anything to me directly, I received repeated hints that they dropped out because I am a sister and not a brother.

Answer (Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi):
"Woman's invaluable work, in fact, is to look after her children and husband. As for employment, which is meant for earning a living, she is permitted to do it provided that the following conditions are met:

First, it should be legal. The Muslim woman is not permitted to work in a place where she will be in privacy with non-Mahram (marriageable) man, or in clubs where she is supposed to offer alcohol to people.

Second, she should abide by the Islamic morals in dress, talk, etc.

Third, woman's employment should not be at the expense of her principal work, namely caring about her children and husband.

Admittedly, the Muslim society is in need of working women in certain fields such as education and medicine in order to educate and treat women (no treating men allowed).

A woman is not allowed to be a governor, a ruler, or a Caliph of a Muslim state because often she cannot bear the burdens of that tremendous job. We say 'often' to refer to the fact that there may be some women who are more powerful and forbearing than some men. Yet, this is unusual and the Islamic rulings, therefore, cannot be founded upon the exceptions.

So ladies…don’t forget to sign up to be …well, anything that’s not really important…other than to women…cause neither da men, nor da Koran think much of your ability to be other than a brood mare and servant to men.
Posted by: Anonymous6700   2004-09-30 11:17:32 AM  

#10  How would you like your kid who is attending Duke on your $30k tuition plus (what) another $15k for room and board to have her as one of their profs? Why do people put up with these idiots hiding behind academic freedom? It is becoming to easy to cover your ignorance and inferior credentials by becoming totally stupid and controversial. Very weak faculty member for such a school as Duke. Makes you wonder about all those USN&WR college rankings.
Posted by: Jack is Back   2004-09-30 11:15:30 AM  

#9  
Islamic feminism holds that Muslim women should enact social change from within the confines of their own culture and religion.
And within the confines of their houses, too, since they can't go out alone or without permission.

Here's an idea, bitch. Haul your worthless Islamic-loving ass over to ARABIA and practice what you preach.

Or STFU.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-09-30 10:45:09 AM  

#8  Islamic feminism


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH. Rich.
Posted by: jules 187   2004-09-30 10:17:58 AM  

#7  Better make that a graphic of an animated steaming pile of bullshit...

James Carville?
Posted by: BH   2004-09-30 10:17:10 AM  

#6  Islamic feminism holds that Muslim women should enact social change from within the confines of their own culture and religion.

HA! Good luck with that, girls. See you in about ten thousand years.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-09-30 10:07:30 AM  

#5  Better make that a graphic of an animated steaming pile of bullshit...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-09-30 9:47:06 AM  

#4  Four minutes after Fred asks for a good graphic, nada supplies the answer. Ain't the internet grand?
Posted by: Steve White   2004-09-30 9:40:44 AM  

#3  Michael Moore, anyone?
Posted by: nada   2004-09-30 9:20:51 AM  

#2  I think I need a good graphic of a pile of steaming bullshit...
Posted by: Fred   2004-09-30 9:16:44 AM  

#1  In the great tradition of "_______, why do they hate us?" this one demands:

She's not just anti-war, she's on the other side.

This jackass, Miriam Cooke, Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature and President of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies is the pluperfect moron her lengthy oh-so-grand-sounding pile of steaming horseshit title implies.

"Beyond teaching her own courses, Cooke is very active in Duke’s Islamic Studies Department. [wotta surprise!] She is co-director of the university’s Center for the Study of Muslim Networks (CSMN), as well as being involved in the 2003-2004 Carolina Seminar on Comparative Islamic Studies. [ooooh, another surprise] She accompanied a group of students on a trip to Lebanon in 2002 and has taken part in various local film festivals in the past few years. As such, Cooke has a lot of influence over the way Duke students experience Islamic culture and particularly its relationship to women."

And there we have it. She's a fucking Islamopologist and the students in her "classes" undoubtedly get served a big steaming heaping helping of her twisted shitclusters regularly. Oh goody.

Deport her ass to Afghanistan or Warziristan or to the PakiWaki Territories, no Beirut Hotels there Prof, where she can truly compare her cloistered navel-studied drivel and hatred for America with reality. Real reality. One way, please.

Don't forget to write, bitch.
Posted by: .com   2004-09-30 4:38:08 AM  

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