Emancipator of women and all-round general, er, Colonel Reformer...

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Why is NOW always so quiet when Democrat men set women back?

TRIPOLI, Libya – The young woman police officer swaggers through a crumbling Tripoli slum, her dark hair cut boyishly short, an empty gun holster and walkie-talkie hanging from her police belt. A tattooed man with a cigarette dangling from his lips shrinks away.

He doesn't want to mess with 25-year-old Nisrine Mansour.
A member of the regime's vice squad, her hero is Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi. His image is on her cell phone, his face emerging from rays of green — the iconic regime color. Her ring tone is a tinny pro-Gadhafi chant.

Gadhafi has bestowed many titles upon himself during his 42-years of iron-fisted rule over Libya, branding himself "King of Kings" in Africa and "Brother Leader of the Revolution" in Libya.

Women like Mansour give him another title: emancipator of women.

"Moammar Gadhafi is the one who opened the opportunities for us to advance. That's why we cling to him, that's why we love him," says Mansour. "He gave us complete freedom as a woman to enter the police force, work as engineers, pilots, judges, lawyers. Anything."

Among Gadhafi's most ardent loyalists are a core of Libyan women who have risen to high-profile roles in the police, military and government and credit Gadhafi with giving them greater career avenues than many of their sisters elsewhere in the Arab world. They consider any threat to his regime a threat to their own advancement.
Even as Gadhafi's regime has cracked down brutally on dissent, locking up and torturing opponents, it has also long touted its policies of breaking cultural taboos concerning women's work and status in the deeply conservative nation. The most well known example is Gadhafi's personal guard of female bodyguards, but women have also been elevated to prominent positions in government ministries.

By DIAA HADID, Associated Press

 

[amicus]

Just out of curiousity....: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...OMEN?SITE=NYWNE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

the link to the article...

with some skepticism as the concensus seems to be the Islamic Radicals, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere, will be the beneficiaries of the 'Islamic Spring'....and we all know how they treat women....?

oh, well.....heh...

ami

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

At least there will be no gays in Tripoli...

 

[amicus]

I wonder how many here know about WW2, Tobruk, even earlier, Tripoli and the US Marines...Patton, Montgomery. the Desert Rats, Rommel, and just how much blood sweat and tears of US and British men was sacrificed to kick the Italians, the French and the Germans out of North Africa.....heh, and then there is always, Casablanca, eh?

ami

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You played it for her, you can play it for me...





I am shocked, SHOCKED! to find liberation going on at Momar's!

 

[amicus]

Give me your prediction of the outcome of the Arab Spring?

ami

 

[Saint Peter]

Give me your prediction of the outcome of the Arab Spring?

ami

Oil prices will go up and the freedom of women in the Middle East will go down.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

That's a no-brainer: Sharia Winter.

What is it that radicalizes Muslims, including American Muslims? Is it American foreign policy? Israeli “occupation” of the ancient Jewish territories of Judea and Samaria? Cartoons depicting the warrior-prophet as a warrior? Korans torched by obscure Florida pastors? The life of Osama bin Laden, or, perhaps, his death? Any of a thousand claimed slights, real or imagined, that purportedly provoke young Muslims to “conflagrate” — if we may borrow from the forgiving rationalizations of Faisal Rauf, would-be imam of the would-be Ground Zero mosque?

Here is the unsettling but sedulously avoided truth: What radicalizes Muslims is Islam.

Political correctness requires that we becloud this simple truth with a few caveats that, in most any other context, would be regarded as distractions by sensible people. So it is necessary to say that there is more than one interpretation of Islam. We must further note that the fact that Islam itself is the radicalizing catalyst does not mean that all, or even most, Muslims will become radicals. But here is another disquieting truth: Even the terms “radicalization” and “radical Islam” get things exactly backwards. The reality is that the radicals in Islam are the reformers — the Muslims who embrace Western civilization, its veneration of reason in matters of faith, and the pluralistic space it makes for civil society. What we wishfully call “radicalism” is in fact the Islamic mainstream.

Andrew McCarthy
NRO

Momar is about to get his ass "reformed" and his women are about to be put in their proper place.

And again, it's a Democrat man with his big talk about women's rights (and how Lilly Ledbetter has forever ended discriminatory pay for employees who excel in the workplace) coupled with actions that put his real feelings into perspective. Pass a sexual discrimination law, then hound the military and the interns...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Oil prices will go up and the freedom of women in the Middle East will go down.

But high oil prices are good for the environment and the moderates will actually prevail under the guidance of the happy-go-lucky community organizers of the Muslim Brotherhood...
__________________
We don’t prevent pollution, we export it (along with our jobs).
A_J, the Stupid

 

[Saint Peter]

But high oil prices are good for the environment and the moderates will actually prevail under the guidance of the happy-go-lucky community organizers of the Muslim Brotherhood...
__________________
We don’t prevent pollution, we export it (along with our jobs).
A_J, the Stupid

High oil prices will push the market for alternatives.



Time for me to fire up the V8 and get to work.

 

[amicus]

My Blazer is only a V-6, but because Ethanol clogs my Jets, I put nine bucks worth of gunk into the tank to clean them...fuck all Liberal/Progressives in the ear.

meh

ami

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, we're a modern-stone-age family...

 

[amicus]

Anybody recognize the pretty lady gracing my Avatar at the moment?

I would offer a free ebook as a prize...but...oooops...I already did...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

My Blazer is only a V-6, but because Ethanol clogs my Jets, I put nine bucks worth of gunk into the tank to clean them...fuck all Liberal/Progressives in the ear.

meh

ami

I took my land in KANSAS out of CRC and into ethanol production!

Right hand of government, meet the Left hand of government...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Anybody recognize the pretty lady gracing my Avatar at the moment?

I would offer a free ebook as a prize...but...oooops...I already did...

Didn't she play the kid on "Shark?"

 

[unregistered]

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Not I, but she seems vaguely familiar.

Maybe if she tweets you a pic...

 

[amicus]

It is the Capitalist thing to do..but what is CRC? That where you get paid for growing nothing

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

It is the Capitalist thing to do..but what is CRC? That where you get paid for growing nothing

Not only that, but look how deep the rabbit hole goes...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070100962.html