Taliban apologist Yvonne Ridley speaks at UC Irvine
Useless idiot alert…
Via Jonathan at Red County/OC Blog, Yvonne Ridley, the far, far left-wing British journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2001, converted to Islam after her release, and has been on the jihadi apologist speaking circuit ever since, gave a pro-Taliban lecture at UC Irvine earlier this month. Watch as this dangerous dhimmi, who calls the Koran a “magna carta for women”, defended terrorist leader Abu al Zarqawi, and celebrated Chechen jihadist/Beslan massacre mastermind Shamil Basayev as a “shaheed,” entertains Muslim students with tales of stupid Westerners who just don’t understand her Taliban brothers and sisters:
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This is taking Stockholm Syndrome to the extreme…oh, wait…extreme…that explains it.
Where were the Code Pink/ ANSWER disruptors?
My alma-mater makes me so proud sometimes. I thought it was bad when I went (and I just graduated 2 years ago!) its gotten so much worse its baffling.
What a fool. Blood pressure jokes? Light shining from his face? Is she for real?
Was she wearing “Western style” pants when she was captured? Guess not-or she would have been be-headed like the Iraqi man in a previous post.
As far as UC Irvine-it would be the norm to encourage such as she. There is a desperate need for reform in the U.S. university system (esp. CA’s).
This woman looks like Faye Dunaway in devilish garb. I hope she enjoys her new liberation in Islam.
23 bottles of beer on the wall…23 bottles of beer…Hicc!!..you knock one down and….hey!, she is looking much better now!!! Old sow!
Dufus.
She lost all credibility by calling the Koran the “Magna Carta for women”.
Then again, she didn’t have much to begin with.
I guess I need a transcript. My Okie ears cannot understand a word she is saying.
Heh…rallen, just what I was thinking. Maybe her recruiter enticed her by telling her she could hide the ugly under that hijab or whatever the hell it’s called.
Psst! Earth to Yvonne…it ain’t working!
And by the way, ask any troop…recruiters lie. /sarc
We need new standards for visitors, be they from the UK or wherever-a Taliban cheerleader?! Cripes…
She converted to islam because she was tired of being a drunken wh*re?
Boy, has our society changed! During WW2, I can just imagine Eichmann coming to some US college to speak of the virtues of nazism, in 1943, or Yamashita in 1942, speaking to U.Hawaii on the benefits of a Japanese co-operative sphere.
Sorry, I couldn’t watch it all, it was turning my stomach.
What has happened to Britain and the British people? If Hitler had been around today he wouldn’t even have to bomb them. They would give it up less they offended the German feelings by fighting back.
In my opinion Yvonne Ridley should be charged with treason for siding with the enemy in a time of war. When will people wake up and see that Islam is the real enemy. Terrorism is only a tactic that they use to fight. I hope president Bush and the other world leaders don’t really think they can stop islamic terrorism without first putting islam in its place. If they truly think islam is a religion of peace, contrary to what we see happening every day, then they need to be replaced by people who are grounded in reality.
Largs: I didn’t even bother to try, myself. Ditto your remarks.
Redog70: The b*tch is a British subject. She should not be charged with treason; she should be sentenced to serve as the official Big Ben bell-ringer for all of ‘08. You know…that thingy that creates the world-famous ‘BONG…BONG…’
I’ll admit that I’m not real savvy with this type of thing, but doesn’t her whole account sound like they were brainwashing her? It’s as if they were evil Jedi Knights doing the hand-waving trick: “We’re really not evil, we’re your friends and your blood pressure’s fine!”
Simple-minded.
Sort of reminds me of one Jayne Fonda. What a nice person she would have been had she not fell into Thom.
Vet65:
1)married w/7 kids
2)not as young as before
3)loving wife
4) still have good reputation
5) It would still take more than 77 bottles of beer for me to enter the “Twilight Zone”…still not enough cloth
The only real hope we have is that the Jihadists will start attacking the Left. They will at some point, of course, since we are all infidels, but it may be far too late when it happens.
While I find WWII analogies weak and unpersuasive, it is instructive to recall that until June 21, 1941, the Nazi-Soviet defacto alliance was kicking the West’s collective butt real bad. And with the full support of the Left. In fact, had the alliance held, and Hitler sent his armies through the middle-East to India to link up with the Japanese before finally striking against Russia, there is no doubt who would have won. Hitler’s error meant that the Left and all the progressive types — for the duration of the war only — were then behind the Western democracies.
The Left is more dominant in our culture than ever before. Unfortunately, the Jihadists know this (they would have to be incredibly stupid not to have noticed) so the odds of them attacking the Left (e.g. nuking Washington D.C. while President-for-life Clinton and her Democrat Congress are gleefully destroying what is left of the country) are remote. One can dream, however.
Wow. How does that work? Leftists deride America for oppression and sinister and nefarious plans to eliminate “free speech” and spy on the proletariat. Then they embrace a death cult that does far far worse than they contend America does. I think this is another case of “identify the enemies of Western Culture and advocate for them so as to destroy the oppressive jew/christian patriarchy.” Yeah that’s the ticket… Clearly these folks are mentally ill. Really. Psychiatrists should study this as a form of mass hysteria. Include the self-mutilating infanticidists while you’re at it..
Someone must have sucked her brains out while she was captured.
I don’t know much about this woman, but she doesn’t seem dangerous. What she said about the Koran and women is not that different from what some say about the Bible and women, despite the fact that the Bible clearly subjugates women to men (wives submit to your husbands …).
As for whom she supports in Chechnia, your hero Reagan supported much worse in Afganistan. In both cases fighting Russians.
You brought up a good example, beenthere. Hitler had no intention of honoring the “agreement” with Stalin, from the beginning. It was simply a means of protecting his East while he dealt with the West. However, Stalin (the Left) thought the agreement was binding and would be honored. Sounds like the left today. On 6/22/41 Hitler invaded a wholly unprepared country, even when the signs were obvious. Stalin even jailed anyone who tried to alert the Soviets of impending invasion. He also instructed the border troops not to fire (provoke) the Germans, even if they fired at them. Same thing today with the Left and the terrorists. Be nice to them and they will be nice to us. Then bury our heads in the sand, and hope they go away. As history always shows, what has happened before, will happen again, if ignored.
Saturday Morning Greetings Mrs. Malkin and loyal community. The piece on the guest speaker at UC Irvine illustrates a sad individual cut from the same bolt of cloth as the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. Both serve to illustrate the coming consequences of the moral bankruptcy of substituting the pursuit of pleasure for the pursuit of happiness. When in consonance with the former, individuals deny themselves the necessary spiritual sustenance offered in the Sermon on the Mount. Such persons are then quite vulnerable to whatever virus comes along, be it Islamism, Marxism, Eco-freak-ism, or what have you. The systems of higher education in all of the “advanced” countries are philosophically grounded in such denial, so the products thereof are necessarily at risk unless otherwise cared for. Aware, careful parents will see to it that their children are as spiritually and philosophically prepared for “higher education” as they are academically and financially. Indeed, this hold true for high school as well!
Yvonne Ridley - the stockholm syndrome personified.
So, MM. Where’s the video of the intolerant loon toon leftist moonbats shouting & rushing the stage to wildly denounce this champion of a harsh & judgmental philosophy which stones adulterers, kills homosexuals, beats rape victims, and, in modern times, still enslaves people of color??
I can’t help wondering what she’s really going to think the first time her Muslim hubby decides she needs a good beating - and then gives her one.
And beyond that, if she changes her mind about this behaving like a good little Muslim woman business and decides to renounce Islam for a return to the rights and privileges of being a free woman in the good old U.S.A., what’s she going to say when the grand mufti, or whoever, issues the fatwa calling for her death as an apostate?
We might see an interesting transformation or we might not. The Chi-Coms could have learned a thing or two about brainwashing from the peace-loving Muslim brothers and sisters.
With the MSM so enamored with, and fawning over, the “Freedom Fighter” Sharia-installers, I’d say we’re in some deep trouble here in the U.S.A.
Where’s Ernie Pyle?
lgm, you quote only a fraction of the scripture found in Ephesians. The full text is below. It’s really disturbing how you cherry pick the Bible to make it out as something evil, used to dominate women, and compare it to the Koran, which tells men it’s their duty to beat their wives into submission and see no difference. And as you can see, the husband has a duty to his wife as well, but I guess you missed that part.
“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”
Michael Yon is one I consider to be the Ernie Pyle of this generation. He is out there right now risking his life to cover the stories no one else will cover. He and the small army of Bloggers willing to cover the stories we will never see in the MSM give us the information we need on the slow creep of Imperialistic Islam.
As far as this twit goes she has sold her soul to the devil to sell out Western Civilization to the ignorant moon worshippers of the 6th Century. May she earn her true reward for her treason.
How is it possible that the MSM has missed reporting on the ROP campaign of gentle one-to-one conversion to Islam? Instead the MSM has focused on a few little accidental explosions here and there and some beheadings and torturing as examples of how Islamists treat people. She should meet with the editorial boards of the NYTimes and LATimes, etc. and set them straight.
/sarc
As a CA taxpayer living in Irvine, I am SO happy with UCI policies that lay out the welcome mat to jihadist sympathizers while denying conservatives the right to speak on campus or looking the other way when their meetings are disrupted by activists.
Freedom of speach is a wonderful thing. It allows ignorant people the chance to time and again demosnstrate thier lack of common sense and the ability to reason in reality.
It is unfortunate that these extremist supporters do not realze that what they support will take away thier freedoms.
She needs to have her head examined. The Koran does nothing - NOTHING - but enslave and oppress women.
As a woman, I find that statement both ignorant and appalling.
There would be nothing more devastating to my life than to be forced to live as a dhimmi under shari’a law and the supposed “wisdom” of the Koran.
I couldn’t help but wonder if this useful idiot was invited over to the stadium to watch any of the daily executions of women who didn’t happen to be fully “liberated” under their burqas.
Well said MrFreeman07 #28
lgm #23 shows much ignorance.
It is amazing how often people quote small parts of that passage whilst ignoring the “Inconveniant truth” of the context.
We get this all the time over here in the UK. They defend islam by saying Christianity is just as bad, and then roll out the quotes from the bible that let you know they haven’t actually read it!
Conversion at the end of a sword, this is what it looks like. What more proof does the Left need?
You know, brainwashing aside, what better way to get us dumba** westerners to begin believing the “religion of peace”, than to subject the weak minded to treatment that is totally opposite of the expectation. Then plant them in the weak minded segment of society, that would be our schools, and have them spew their nonsense. One thing strikes me as kind of odd, however. She said that her translator was extremely afraid of the pious, light emitting, religious guy. If, as Yvonne says, he was such a nice guy, why should the translator be so afraid?
I missed the part where Reagan supported the massacre of russian civilians, which she in fact has.
What I find interesting is what you don’t see in the video. No flying pies, or hecklers shouting her down. Not from the left, because she’s the enemy of their enemy, and not from the right because we actually support the right to free idioc…I mean speech.
Prime Director (#37) Reagan supported the Taliban and Bin Laden in Afganistan when they were fighting the Russians.
MrFreeman07 (#28) and Redog70 (#34): I don’t see how the longer quote changes my point. The Bible tells Women to be the followers and men the leaders, just as Jesus is the leader and his followers, well, are the followers. The woman submits to her man, who is supposed not to take advantage of her.
This is not the modern American view of a woman’s place. Women and men are equal in marriage. They have the same rights and responsibilities. If most American Christians have evolved beyond a literal interpretation of their scriptures, American Muslims can too.
Reagan supported the Taliban and Bin Laden in Afganistan when they were fighting the Russians
I am constantly amazed at your ignorance, LGM.
The Taliban were a scattered bunch of tribesman during the Soviet occupation. They were eventually funded and trained by the Pakistani ISI in the early 1990’s, long after Reagan left office.
As for Reagan “supporting” Bin Laden, Osama bought most of his own arms with his own money and spurned the help of the CIA in the 1980’s. There is no credible evidence linking Bin Laden and the CIA - ever.
That’s fuzzy history, math-boy. Why don’t you pedal your *ss over to the library and pick up a history book?
Hey professor, when did Reagan promote the targeting of russian civilians by mujahideen?
She eulogizes Shamil Basayev, the architect of the Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis and the Beslan School Massacre and she rationalizes his actions. She’s an apologist for islamic terrorism. Is islamic terrorism dangerous?
“Magna Carta for women”? She’s right. Islam does for the average woman today what the Magna Carta did for the average woman in 1215.
Prime Director sais (#41)
The Mujahideen became the Taliban, a simple name change. They didn’t target Russian civilians in Afganistan because there weren’t any. They certainly targeted Afgan civilians. And don’t forget the Contras who had no qualms about killing civilians.
lgm #39. You still miss the point entirely. Jesus doesn’t say any of this as a way to subjugate women. The whole premise is based on love. First, love for God, and, love for one another, as husband and wife. My wife and I are Christians and we live this principle, but it never means that my wife falls over herself to please me “no matter what”. It’s not about me always telling her what to do, being right, or repressing her, and it’s most certainly not about me being smarter! It is about loving each other enough to know that someone has to, ultimately, accept, responsibility for how our family functions. lgm, this has absolutely nothing to do with the view of the American woman’s place, it has everything to
do with how much husbands should love their wives and respect them as partners in this thing called life. I love my wife as much as Christ loves His church, and am willing to die for her.
Math-boy, you must know enough about set theory to realize how ridiculous that statement is.
Just because the mujahideen and the taliban have some elements in common, does not mean they share the same identity.
Shamil Basayev didn’t target russian civilians in Chechnya either. He targeted them in Russia.
To what end would they do so?
The focus of the covert US intervention was to supply arms and training to a cadre dedicated to defeating the Soviet army and driving them out of Afghanistan. Civilian massacres did not further this goal.
The provision of advanced technology and tactical support did. The Stinger missle, an anti-aircraft weapon, was one of the decisive weapons of the Soviet-Afghan War, and as far as I know, afghan civilians generally don’t fly helicopter gunships.
The contras were targeting civilians? This was proved unequivocably, according to which unbiased source?
Human Rights Watch?
The communist Sandinista government was a greater human rights violator than the Contras ever were.
Regarding the Sandinista-Contra War:
Many American Indians know how bad the Sandinistas were.
I’ve met quite a few members of the American Indian Movement. Some of my own family belonged to AIM at one time or another.
One AIM leader used to come to the sweat lodge in my mother’s backyard. When his people heard that the Miskito Indians were being murdered by the Nicaraguan communists, AIM soldiers went down to Nicaragua and murdered them back.
I honor them, and the fact that they killed communists in defense of the Indian community means AIM will generally get the benefit of the doubt in my book.
Mmmooooooo!