Truth and Soul - from The Honorable Louis Farrakhan

"There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth unless someone rises up and tells you the truth." -- Louis Farrakhan

Here's Brother Farrakhan, serving up a nice heaping helping of truth to Mike Wallace, who can stay seated after positing that one-sided statement.

Sexism and the City

Like every thinking person I know, I'm appalled by the French government's big push to ban the wearing of burkas. Imagine how I balked when I read this story about "tournante" - gang rape as punishment for girls in the suburbs who rebel. Of course, I had to repost it:

“In Muslim immigrant families, the sons are treated like kings. They are not just preferred over the girls, they are spoilt and coddled.” The crux is that when these young men encounter resistance beyond the family for the first time - when they don’t get into university or college, for example - they react helplessly and destructively. They compensate for their fury and inferiority complexes with machismo and violence against those who are socially and physically weaker – girls in particular.SEXISM & THE CITY, Jun 2009

You really should read the whole article.