Back in 2003, a period when Steven Den Beste was routinely cranking out brilliant 5,000+word essays on a daily clip. (Don’t try this at home, kids!), he wrote a terrific piece on the post-9/11 credibility gap that Amnesty International has……

Oh, c’mon. Don’t you guys know that Amnesty International is busy going after real human rights violators? Like Denmark?

Denmark? How about all the political prisoners in the US who happen to be murderers of police and FBI agents.

Where is CAIR on this issue? I saw nothing on their site but they were upset about feces left at Muslim group’s door.

Dastardly

- The Cat

These so called women’s groups are a bunch of useless wimps when it comes to Islam.

4shoes on November 29, 2007 at 11:26 PM

Feminists are useless, unless deconstructing traditional society for the left, of course.

Kini, what did you have with that dinner tonight? :)

Entelechy on November 29, 2007 at 11:34 PM

Oysters!

Seriously, I feel bad for the woman. 15 days will be a long time for her.

So, it only took them four days since she was arrested. And no release on their website.

amerpundit on November 29, 2007 at 11:15 PM

Maybe they’re taking Ted Kennedy’s lead, and are afraid to enrage the passions of the very emotional and oh so easily upset Sudanese?

This comment from the same link really is disgusting:

CATHERINE WOLTHUIZEN, FAIR TRIALS ABROAD

There was no intent on her part.

A number of people have come forward and made that very clear, both in Sudan and here, that at worst it was just a misunderstanding based on naivety, but even so that a number of her colleagues at the time saw very little wrong, or very little that was likely to cause any offence, in terms of the naming of the bear.

So I think she is not someone who has sought to cause offence, she’s not someone who’s acted foolishly, but she perhaps hasn’t necessarily understood the extent to which some of the parents might have been sensitive to the use of this name.

So it really can be offensive to do this, and we must be aware of their cultural sensitivities.

Damn the parents, I say!

And look what the Archbishop of Canterbury has to say:

DR ROWAN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

I can’t see any justification for this at all.

I think that this is an absurdly disproportionate response to what is at best a minor cultural faux pas. And I think that it’s done the Sudanese government no credit whatever.

Pip pip. Apparently the Archbishop, who enjoys blaming Western Civilization for the ills of mankind , does not believe in meeting outrage with outrage and prefers a mild, milquetoast response. We wouldn’t want his tummy to get upset now, would we?

Credit for this catch goes to fluffy, who found it earlier today.

Bryan on November 29, 2007 at 11:22 PM

You go, fluffy. Bryan, please consider crediting fluffy on top, below “Source”. I like that a cute name like fluffy, did such a grand deed. World, take notice – fluffy, with today’s technology, can expose you nakid.

Or is it really BDS?

Priorities.