My latest in PJ Media:
Freedom of speech? Come on, man! That’s so 1776. Nowadays we know better: anyone who offends Leftist sensibilities in any manner must be demonized, stigmatized, marginalized, and canceled so that “hate” and “misinformation” can have no foothold in our pristine existence. Oklahoma City mayoral candidate Carol Hefner has now run afoul of the guardians of acceptable opinion and is duly being thrown to the wolves. Her crime? Stating that some aspects of Islam foster “hate and oppression.” On Thursday, The Oklahoman duly moved in for the kill on Hefner’s political career.
Hefner, according to The Oklahoman’s Jana Hayes, “in Tuesday’s mayoral debate, made remarks about Islam that sparked an outcry from the local Muslim community.” In fact, “Hefner, 60, has a history of making racist and Islamophobic social media posts.” In those posts, we’re told, Hefner “called Islam an ‘evil culture’ and compared President Barack Obama to Hitler.”
Over the top? Sure. But this is racist only if any criticism of Obama is racist (and of course many Leftists have suggested just that). And as for “Islamophobic,” Hefner’s words come from her personal experience: “Hefner described her Lebanese family’s oppression from those practicing Islam….Her grandfathers, she said, wore cross tattoos on their hands and were denied food, clothing and housing because of their Christian status.”
That is true. Under Islamic law, Christians in the Islamic state must submit to the hegemony of the Muslims. They may not hold authority over a Muslim, so they’re relegated to the most menial jobs in society. They may not make public display of their religion and must wear clothing distinct from what the Muslims wear so that they are not greeted with the standard greeting, “Peace be upon you.” They may not build new churches or repair old ones and must accept a host of other humiliating and discriminatory regulations designed to ensure that they “feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).
Hefner, with all this in her family history, explained: “It is a very negative culture, and it does things that are oppressive, and I don’t agree with that. It’s just like slavery, I don’t agree with it. It’s insipid, it should be eradicated from our culture, from our world. Unfortunately, it’s been here since the beginning of time, I don’t know how I personally am going to get rid of it, but I would like to have those conversations.”
Later she clarified her remarks: “Hate and oppression of all kinds is insipid and should be eradicated from our world,” and said that she meant “insidious,” not “insipid.” She said that it was “inaccurate” to “take her words as meaning any culture should be eradicated.” “All cultures make up our world,” said Hefner. “I believe in freedom of religion. Love (and) peace between all religions as well.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
Michael Copeland says
Mohammed criticised and disparaged other religions. His is the perfect example.
Kenneth J Johnson says
She should go ahead. There is jo need to appease a small group of Muslims. I wish I lived in Oklkamoma, I’d go door to door for her. Isn’t there any way we can drum up support for her?? KEN
Chess says
And Obama does have hate in his heart. Look at his remarks in South Africa.
OLD GUY says
Hefner’s and other political candidates who are willing to speak out about the islamic oppression and violence committed by islam and who will stand up for human rights need our support. If you really want to help her send a check to help her and other pro Americans campaigns.
Walter Sieruk says
That Oklahoma City mayoral candidate Carol Hefner is now “under fire ” for criticizing Islam really means that she’s only brave to speak the truth that the American public needs to know.
When considering the source of those who hate her for truth expounding what alone should be to her credit complement to her.
Doomer says
It is getting worse,now the TALIBAN have scored a major image boost with this:
“Taliban Gives Safe Haven to Pregnant Feminist”
(from Daniel Haqiqatjou)
https://youtu.be/kGpsfUp-oiE
It is about CHARLOTTE BELLIS,an ex-AlJazeera journalist ( UNMARRIED and PREGNANT):
The New Zealand reporter said she was stranded in Afghanistan and forced to TURN to the TALIBAN for HELP
after requests to RETURN HOME were REJECTED,due to the COVID pandemic.
1. Bellis discovered she was pregnant a short time after gaining international attention in 2021 for questioning Taliban leaders about their treatment of women and girls. She is due to give birth in May.
2. She resigned from Al Jazeera in November and had no choice but to leave Qatar, where she was usually based, because sex outside marriage is illegal.
3. She and her partner, Jim Huylebroek, then moved to his native Belgium.
4. In a column published in the New Zealand Herald on Saturday, Bellis wrote that she was unable to stay in Belgium because she was not a resident.
5. She said the only other place the couple had VISAS to LIVE was AFGHANISTAN, where they are now located.
6. In her column, she said she had been forced to turn to the Taliban for help before re-entering Afghanistan
after her application for a place in New Zealand’s MIQ was rejected. She said she had since been attempting unsuccessfully to secure an emergency MIQ to give birth in New Zealand.
Eleanor says
I wonder if the Taliban are aware of this:
“Jacinda Ardern-led government in New Zealand is facing heat for resettling Afghanistan’s former vice president and his 13 family members in the country while hundreds of Afghans who helped New Zealand forces remain trapped abroad and in fear for their lives.
Sarwar Danish– the second vice president of Afghanistan– flew into Auckland in late December 2021, with his wife, two sons and three daughters.
Danish, a member of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazara minority, fled Kabul for Turkey along with other senior officials on August 16, shortly after the Taliban took control of the capital.”
This man and his family actually fled to Turkey in the first instance, and I believe, were safe there, so why they needed to move to New Zealand is a mystery — I smell the pungent odour of the United Nations behind this — and it’s well known that Ardern is hoping for a UN job in New York once she gets kicked out of office, which will hopefully be the next NZ election in 2023.
Hank says
“This man and his family actually fled to Turkey in the first instance, and I believe, were safe there, so why they needed to move to New Zealand is a mystery”
Because Islam knows who its top nitwit and “useful idiot” is. Leftist-Green-Islamophilic Jacinda Ardern is bent on destroying her own society by importing and planting all the seeds of future strife she can get away with. Even a wealthy Muslim country to settle in can’t compete with Jacinda Ardern.
I am sure voters in New Zealand will enjoy all the benefits of FGM, no-go-zones, beheadings, rioting and burning in the cities, ballooning jail, courthouse and welfare expenses, endless special considerations for Muslims, a Mosque building boom and proliferation, train and bus bombings, Sharia, Hijabs, Islamic schools teaching hatred of non-Muslims, lots of honor killings, demands for a change in schools to serve Halal and to stop Christian teaching and prayers in schools, demands for prohibition of Crucifixes in public places, demands for Muslim Autonomous regions, demands for a separate Islamic state in New Zealand, preparations for a post-Christian society, a 5th column in their midst, et al. Enjoy. You get what you vote for.
Doomer says
I wasn’t aware Jacinta Arden was literally Another Justin Trudeau: she only cares about her image At the Moment. In the meantime:
1. On FEBRUARY 7, in Europe, truckers are going to do the same as in Canada. Have a Freedom Convoy.
2. The same is being planned in America, a Freedom Convoy to go from California to Washington,DC.
3. Lancet,one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, has said that 90% of those with OMICRION show No Symptoms, and so don’t suffer. The other 10%: no worse than a COLD.
If you get Omicron you will be NATURALLY IMMUNE to ANY kind of Covid ( Omicron,Delta, and even the original one ).
Lancet said in the following months 50% of the WORLD will get Omigron ( 125 MILLION get infected per day ). All the better,getting Omicron is better than getting a “vaccine” that doesn’t work.
Lancet says the pandemic is “almost over”.
4. In JAPAN, a recent university study has concluded IVERMECTIN is very effective in curing you of the coronavirus.
gravenimage says
I don’t think an unmarried pregnant woman is safe in Afghanistan…
CycloneSteve says
True, the question is, how much can her “partner” care about her if he is unwilling to marry her to reduce the risk of her being stoned to death?
tim gallagher says
I was amazed when I heard about this story here in Australia. The idea that a pregnant, unmarried woman could possibly be sent to Afghanistan, where the scum from the Taliban rule, staggered me. Surely, it would be a death sentence for her. It seemed insane to me. I think New Zealand are now accepting her, though I’m not sure about that.
PRCS says
And now, because she shot from the hip, she’s “clarifying her remarks”.
Like so many before her.
Yes, Ms. Heffner–Islam IS a religion; albeit an awful religion.
A theocracy in which, per “divine law”, apostasy is punishable by death. A “complete way of life”; toilet etiquette included.
Doesn’t Oklahoma City deserve a more reasoned, informed mayor?
gravenimage says
PRCS wrote:
Doesn’t Oklahoma City deserve a more reasoned, informed mayor?
……………….
Perhaps so, PRCS. But incumbent and frontrunner David Holt has compared the January 6th protest at the Capitol to the Oklahoma City bombings, and is completely unhinged in his hatred of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz (atlthough he is nominally Republican). He also took a knee with BLM.
Jimmy Lawson describes himself as an “activist” and emphasizes the “empowerment of youth” and wants to radically reduce the number of people imprisoned for any crimes.
Frank Urbani actually does describe himself as a conservative, and is a veteran. This sounds hopeful–but I haven’t seen where he has said *anything* about Islam at all.
I am *certainly* sorry to see that Carol Hefner caved and apologized so quickly–but she still may be the best candidate Oklahoma City has right now.
PRCS says
“I am *certainly* sorry to see that Carol Hefner caved and apologized so quickly”
Me, too.
And, I’m really frustrated–for our side–that so many keep getting their feet lodged in the mouths.
She could have put the others in their place….
Chess says
Not when the Islamic cry is “Kill the infidel”.
One has to be as blunt.
Wellington says
If by now a Western politician doesn’t criticize Islam that person is an ignoramus, a coward or complicit with evil.
No exceptions because Western Civilization and Islam are completely incompatible and one knows this or should know this. The West explored parameters of freedom such as no other civilization ever has and Islam remains to this day the Neanderthal religion from the seventh century that wants to pull mankind, and especially the West, back to the seventh century—and an Arab seventh century at that, which was replete with superstition, barbarism, rape, banditry, parasitism and a whole host of other negatives.
To the extent that Islam still gets a pass in the West, to that very extent is this dispositive of how feckless and stupid the West has become. Screw Islam. And screw any Western politician like Biden, Trudeau, Johnson, Ardern, et al. who continues to make excuses for the worst religion of all time.
It is not enough to be neutral on Islam. That train left the station long ago.
somehistory says
Why do these politicians who want to speak the truth about islam, not quote John Q. Adams and W. Churchill?
I would think that it would add some backbone, some spine, some authority, to their remarks and perhaps, more infidels would wise up and support the truth being spoken.
gravenimage says
Oklahoma City Mayoral Candidate Under Fire for Criticizing Islam
…………
Absolute madness. How *dare* Hefner say anything bad about the Muslim persecution of her family? Objecting to Muslims persecuting or murdering you is “Islamophobia”…
Terry Gain says
Ms Hefner is obviously a beautiful woman. I hope she is not in any danger for speaking the truth. Islam is evil. People who do not oppose Islam are either ignorant about it or are cowards or evil.
Why on earth is an evil ideology that is opposed to free speech being allowed into America? Easy. Not enough people challenge its obviously false claim that it is a religion.
You’re welcome. I am a nice Canadian who is often trying to help.
James Lincoln says
Terry Gain says,
“Why on earth is an evil ideology that is opposed to free speech being allowed into America?”
100% true, and you could also include “Leftism”.
mike says
if they can handle the heat get out of the kitchen
CycloneSteve says
The word “misinformation” is used because they can’t use the work lie.