But treating CEOs of a company and that company as identical in a weird way supports (American) conservative attempts to legitimize the concept of companies being political persons who have a right to intervene in politics. If I want Barilla to stay out of politics with political donations, wouldn't I be muddying the…

Did you see my last post in which I showed you how you don't know basic facts about her biography, i.e. "she fled Somalia. So excuse me if I am skeptical of your claims that her biography has been substantiated in every detail. Would you care to supply a link to a source that substantiates her biography in every…

A Dutch documentary was made that showed that basically every part of her supposed childhood was a fabrication. Her family wasn't religious, she wasn't sent to conservative religious schools, her family never tried to marry her to anyone. Now she claims that the only issue was the fact that her name was changed and…

What is the basic factual flaw in your post that I have repeatedly corrected you on? It is the basic factual point that makes me doubt you have read her book or have read any mainstream articles about her, or have even read the article you yourself posted about her.

Which book? There are three versions of her autobiography in Dutch and English which have changed her story over time. None of the versions of her life reflect any of media inquiries into her childhood and youth in Kenya.

The words that you typed were "That she fled Somalia to escape an arranged marriage". I'm sorry if I misread your post, but it wasn't very clearly written.

When were the findings reversed? Link?

I totally respect your opinion. I personally love all sorts of Indian snack foods, and although I don't know for sure, I'm pretty certain that the people who own those companies probably aren't as progressive as I am when it comes to gay rights/gay marriage. I also assume that there are probably tonnes of people…

Fuck the CEO of Barilla but I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds of gay people who work at Barilla. It would be like hating Texas because Rick Perry is a homophobic ass hole. Can you imagine how many homophobes work at all sorts of different food companies we love? The Barilla guy is a really simple, easy, lazy…

I am not defending FGM at all, it is an unnecessary attempt to control women's bodies that I reject. But while rejecting FGM I also don't buy the mythology of the simplisticmonolithic explanation for it that Western NGOs have created.

That's great I lived in Rome as a kid (in EUR). What's your point? You are a crazy person insulting a stranger who thinks it is gross to microwave pasta. So you are a crazy, rude Italian whose family owns a mill. What's your point?

- writes man on his typewriter.

I'm sure you're very popular. Good luck making friends in Italy with your microwaved pasta.

It's funny because you have no sense of humor.

Also it is very troubling that you still think she fled Somalia to escape a forced marriage when every source on the matter (including the article you shared) shows she very much did not.

The inquiry was not bogus, it was unpopular. There is a difference. If you can find any articles that show this inquiry was bogus, other than Ayaan Ali Hirsi claiming she was framed please share it.

She had admitted many times over that that was not the case.

I would rather eat homophobic real pasta than this microwaved crap. The gay community should in no way support or lend credence to this abomination.

Wait but are there any newspaper or magazine articles that stand by this. That would suggest that this is "known to be true". From what I've seen in the Dutch (and French and English) media she did not flee Somalia to escape an arranged marriage. She left Somalia as a little girl as a refugee from the Civil War and…

Interesting. I went back to reflect on why I would have thought there are more Christians in Africa and I found sources like this: