Women’s liberation and empowerment are terms feminists started using to talk about casting off the limitations imposed upon women and demanding equality. We have perverted these words. The freedom to be sexually provocative or promiscuous is not enough freedom; it is not the only ‘women’s issue’ worth paying attention to. And we are not even free in the sexual arena. We have simply adopted a new norm, a new role to play: lusty, busty exhibitionist. There are other choices. If we are really going to be sexually liberated, we need to make room for a range of options as wide as the variety of human desire. We need to allow ourselves the freedom to figure out what we internally want from sex instead of mimicking whatever popular culture holds up to us as sexy. That would be liberation.
– Ariel Levy (via starlingswarm) Via The Dragon Fortress
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I was walking down Michigan Avenue with Ali and a couple of other people and this middle aged African American man was passing out this little books, which I thought were maps of the city or something. Then we walked down half a block until I realized what I was reading. He was passing out a book on each pillar of Islam, I just so happened to grab the Pilgrimage one. Basically, a man named Abdul dies in a plane crash on the way back from the Pilgrimage and when he dies, he meets Jesus. As most people know, Jesus is just as an important part of Islam as he is in Christianity, he is a very praised Prophet of ours. This man Abdul is taken up to the gates of Heaven where he meets Jesus who tells him that he’s going to Hell for practicing a false religion. That Allah is a false God and his good deeds, charity, prayers do not count because it’s from a false religion. In the comic book, Jesus says the Prophet Muhammad “rejected him therefore he is not in Heaven” and it goes on like that.Ali’s friend got upset, we walked back down the block to the old man and handed him back one of the books. Ali’s friend then said to him, “It hurts me that you of all people, someone who has faced so much discrimination in this country as an african-american would wish this kind of prejudice and hate upon Muslims. I will pray for your ignorance because you’re doing nothing but spreading hate among our peers, this is useless and sad.” and the man simply smiled and said “yeah, sure okay.”
I couldn’t really stop thinking about this because I live in Chicago. It has such a huge diverse muslim community and it makes me wonder how many people have read these comic books and have actually believed that this is Islam. It makes me sad that people use the name of Jesus to spew this bullshit.
This is not Islam.
This is not Christianity.
This is pure bigotry.
Welcome to America’s oldest continuing body of religious bigotry: Jack Chick. You have no idea of the sewer you have stepped into.
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