1) I understand and sympathize with people wanting to leave for a safer life. Where we disagree is that when it dosnt work out legally, its ok to break rules and not expect consequences.  

No Im not American at all. However the argument that everyone is illegal since they took america from the native Americans is ridiculous. No rule of law back then. If Mexico wants to take over america and set up own laws, they can try. Not to mentions its not like the NA were a combined government or anything. A bunch…

OK fair enough. It was more to say she/her parents actively broke the law. When people over stay their visas, its a disservice to potential future visa holders.

Love how you say she “arrived” in the US like shes here by accident. More accurately she was smuggled into the US. Why give citizenship to those breaking the law rather to those requesting to come in legally?  

The SRT4 Neon had no muffler. Stock.

I’ll just deal with two terms - apartheid and zionism.

If being anti-Israel, and loudly so, is a prerequisite for being a True Progressive (ugh), then so should being loudly anti-Islamic theocracies. They’re the only theocracies left (well, except for the square mile that is the Vatican), and tens of millions of women suffer greatly under them. It’s a far greater problem,…

I honestly have never considered a future where Israeli Jews become minorities. Because as far as I believe, Israel should not be a closed border country at all.

Sheesh, you sure are disingenuous.

It’s like this AT THE MOMENT. It doesn’t need to stay that way. And there are many in and out of Israel who want it to change, because Zionism doesn’t mean that it can’t or shouldn’t.

Spare me your bullshit reductionist crap.

Because it is not an objective proof that Rasmeah Odeh’s confession was coerced. That is what Odeh claims. It may be true; it may not be true. But what Sarsour and Gupta leave out of their summary is that Rasmeah Odeh was convicted in a court that was monitored by the Red Cross and there was physical evidence (bomb…

I think aside from the hard right-wingers, Israel would be fine with just the first two as long as the other sovereign states would stop trying to exterminate them.

Well, I don’t know Emily Shire and I’m also sick of Jezebel demonising her as well while holding Sarsour up as some kind of martyred saint, so maybe stop trying to dismiss someone’s opinion based on her knowing the person in question. I don’t think Sarsour is a terrorist the way the far right try to portray her but I…

yikes, tweeted on international women’s day too...

Did she ever apologize for that tweet or just delete it? What an unbelievably awful thing to say.

The tweet in question. Whatever you feel about Ayaan, her anger and her activism comes from a place of genuine suffering. And given the fact that she DID suffer from FGM, saying “she doesn’t deserve to be a woman” is gross and indefensible. Because it’s something that someone almost literally tried to inflict upon…

Slightly OT, but Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s labelling by the SPLC was heartbreaking for me. Anyone familiar with her story would see that her stances on Islam are informed primarily by her incredibly traumatic childhood and young adulthood. The Netherlands and US have failed her badly as refuges, and now she is being used like…