Polly Toynbee at Guardian did the brilliant analysis on the British conservative media's report on the Leading Seaman Faye Turney, who was kidnapped by Iran. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2051499,00.html Citing plenty of examples of misogynistic comments about Turney written in the papers, Toynbee concludes that "the Daily Mail believes pretty much the same as President Ahmadinejad".
This fundamentalist misogynist sentiment is not only disseminated by "trashy" tabloid papers; also by Murdoch-owned "quality" broadsheet paper, the Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1596699.ece What a nonsense... Ms. Turney deserves warm support in Britain, not kind of hostilities she was forced to endure in Iran. It is ironic that those who are most vocal in support of the 'War on Terror' and love to condemn the "Islamic fascism" support the backward, bigoted Iranian agendas... Conservatives in the West and the Middle East seem to hate each other but they indeed share values that subjugate women into femininity, domesticity and maternity. We must be united against both of them.
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I really hate reading an articles that can be summed up in one sentence or less. In this case, "Y'arrrr, tis bad luck to have a woman on ye old shippe!!!"
Totally enjoyed Toynbee's analysis. Did you read Terry Jones' (of Monty Python fame)opinion piece as well? It wasn't as intelligent but still pretty cute, and again an underlying message that the "evils" the West is trying to fight in the Middle East are not quite as foreign to our values as we would like to think.
Thanks I checked Terry Jones' article, such an effective use of humour to make his point.
Yes, the values of the Western right-wingers are not that different from "evils" in the Middle East. Al Qaeda hates our freedom and human rights, but bin Laden didn't destroy freedom by himself; Bush completed his war to destroy the Western values...
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