Radical Islam - It's All The Fault of Women and Gays

[kweerwolf]

Every once in a while you read something so spectacularly bone-headed and bizarre that you wonder how it made it into print.

Witness today's LA Times op-ed by Catherine Seipp, who blames the coddling of radical Islam on - ready? - women and gays.

Seipp describes how a friend recently stopped by San Francisco's City Lights bookshop and asked if they carried Orianna Fallaci's polemic against radical Islam, "The Force of Reason."


"No," snapped the clerk. "We don't carry books by fascists."

Seipp finds it strange that "a snotty San Francisco clerk" would condemn Falacci for criticizing radical Islam, "when one of the first things those poor, persecuted Islamists would do, if they ever (Allah forbid) came to power in the United States, is crush suspected homosexuals like him beneath walls."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabriel-rotello/radical-islam-its-all-_b_16358.html

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Fuck Seipp. Falacci IS a fascist.

She's admitted it. Just because she's rightly condemned some very bad people for being very bad people doesn't erase her history.

Plus, City Lights can carry whatever the fuck it wants to in its store, regardless of what the right thinks.

It's also hilarious that this journalist thinks that one bookstore clerk in San Francisco not carrying a book by an admitted fascist suddenly means the entire whole of the GLBT community and anyone who considers her/himself a feminist are supporters of radical Islam. That's just mind-blowingly hilarious, IMO.

And more than a little sad.

[DBoon]

2. I'm so glad I canceled the LA Times

how it has fallen

[xchrom]

3. seipp is clueless about what being a liberal/progessive

means.

so how'd she get that good paying j.o.b. one wonders?

[sui generis]

4. of course, and we blame Auschwitz on the Jews.

It's only logical that without jews there would never have been concentration camps.

:sarcasm:

[VaYallaDawg]

5. Kinda like Whittington getting shot in face by Cheney, it's his own fault.

My, my, my what an upside down world we live in today.