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Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
THE PARTY OF THE REST OF US: But meanwhile, back in Lebanon, Mustapha at Beirut Spring blog relates the mood of the country, on the departure of the last Syrians.
The people are jubilant: The Syrians have officially left, the security apparatus is collapsing like a cards house, Two major opposition politicians are joining their embittered constituencies after an absence of more than 10 years (one was exiled and the other imprisoned) and the elections will be taking place starting May 29th. My grandmother said it best: God has answered my prayer that I don't die before I see the back of the Syrians.
The President's freedom policy moves another step forward. Lebanon's elections are in May; Syria's ruling party holds a congress in June, and multi-party elections are an option even there. One feels like breaking into a Bob Dylan song, but let's take a deep breath, relax, and see what the next couple of months actually bring.
9:56:41 PM 
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THE PARTY OF GOD: The Guardian reports on al-Ghuraaba, an "extreme Islamist group" that has violently disrupted two UK election meetings:
The group's east London campaign is being run by Abdul Mueed, a student, who promised yesterday that al-Ghuraaba would continue to disrupt events and target candidates to get across its message to Muslims that they will go to hell if they vote on May 5.
Interesting to observe Ayman Al-Zawahiri's doctrines taking root in Britain, the cradle of representative government.
5:34:10 PM
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BOYS WILL BE GIRLS: A rather pointless article by Stanley Kurtz in the otherwise admirable City Journal site, argues the cultural case against boys being identical to girls. Using the kibbutzim mothers as an example, Kurtz somehow makes the extraordinary desire of mothers to raise their own children into a cultural trait, and from that perspective argues against the possibility that boys and girls can ever be uniform in behavior.
But look at the animal kingdom: at the mother-love shown by every primate species. Then look at every human culture, without exception: the same maternal attachment will be found. This is biology working to the most obvious evolutionary purposes. It can be tinkered with by a culture, but never broken. Kurtz has the right target in sight - the gender-is-a-social-construct-of-evil-patriarchs feminists - but his arguments grant too much, and add nothing in return.
5:22:30 PM
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