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Radical feminism and the higher education radical left is apparently even worse in Canada than the U.S.
Of course, her country was not the one attacked.
I, with DeeJay, defend her right to make such obscene comments.
But, secretly, I kind of wish the regents at the University of British Columbia had the balls to fire her ass.
<< Tuesday, October 02, 2001
OTTAWA -- A B.C. feminist told a cheering
audience here that the United States
government is more threatening to the
world than international terrorism.
Sunera Thobani received several standing
ovations from about 500 delegates
attending the Women's Resistance
Conference on Monday.
Her comments caused a political uproar,
with opposition MPs condemning Secretary
of State Hedy Fry for sitting silently as
Thobani spoke. MPs called on the
government to fire Fry, charging that she
should have immediately condemned
Thobani's statements.
"Today in the world the United States is
the most dangerous and the most powerful
global force unleashing horrific levels of
violence," said Thobani, a women's studies
professor at the University of British
Columbia and former head of the National
Action Committee on the Status of Women.
"From Chile to El Salvador to Nicaragua to
Iraq, the path of U.S. foreign policy is
soaked in blood."
Thobani said she empathizes with the
human suffering following the Sept. 11
terror attacks in New York, Washington,
and Pennsylvania that left more than 6,000
people dead or missing. "But do we feel
any pain for the victims of U.S.
aggression?"
In an interview with The Vancouver Sun
Monday night, Thobani said her comments
were directed at George Bush, not the
American people.
"I made a 40-minute speech. I provided a
contest for those comments. I was basically
advocating an end to war," she said.
"If America wants to lead this war, then I'm against American foreign
policy."
In her speech, Thobani also ridiculed any suggestion that the U.S.
would be advancing women's rights by ousting Afghanistan's Taliban
regime, which has forbidden women from working, attending school, or
showing their faces in public.
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