{"id":2630,"date":"2008-05-29T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2008-05-29T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T17:12:56","slug":"archconservative-attacks-ay-rab-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"Archconservative Attacks “Ay-Rab” Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Representative Michele Bachmann (MN6), noted archconservative and immigration hawk, notes this story from Belgium (via the NYTimes<\/a>, a quote from which starts the excerpt):<\/p>\n

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Al Qaeda Warrior Uses Internet to Rally Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

BRUSSELS\u2014On the street, Malika El Aroud is anonymous in an Islamic black veil covering all but her eyes…<\/p>\n

…She calls herself a female holy warrior for Al Qaeda<\/strong>. She insists that she does not disseminate instructions on bomb-making and has no intention of taking up arms herself…\u201cIt\u2019s not my role to set off bombs\u2014that\u2019s ridiculous,\u201d she said in a rare interview. \u201cI have a weapon. It\u2019s to write. It\u2019s to speak out. That\u2019s my jihad. You can do many things with words. Writing is also a bomb<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. El Aroud has not only made a name for herself among devotees of radical forums where she broadcasts her message of hatred toward the West<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bachmann – who sounds a bit testy, like entering the world of blogging has caused her to let down her guard:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This kind of s**t drives me bonkers\u2014Ms. El Aroud hates the West? That\u2019s grand. Whatever\u2014that\u2019s her right. Hell, there are some things I hate about the West. But if you hate the West so much, Ms. El Aroud, then what the f**k out are you doing in the West<\/em>? Go. You\u2019re not nailed you to the floor in Belgium. Let\u2019s make a deal: You were born in Morocco. So you go back to Morocco and we\u2019ll bring someone over that actually wants to live in the West. Perhaps a Moroccan lesbian. But if you long to live under sharia (you say you do), then maybe you should pick a s**thole country somewhere\u2014Saudia Arabia, Nigeria, Gambia, Iran\u2014where Islamists hold power and go and f**king live and blog from there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wow. I’m not used to that kind of direct language from Rep. Bachmann.\u00a0 I’m kind of shocked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, she goes on.<\/p>\n

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But here\u2019s the detail that really made my head explode:<\/p>\n

That system often has been lenient toward her. She was detained last December with 13 others in what the authorities suspected was a plot to free a convicted terrorist from prison and to launch an attack in Brussels<\/strong>\u2026. Now, even as Ms. El Aroud remains under constant surveillance, she is back home rallying militants<\/strong> on her main Internet forum and collecting more than $1,100 a month in government unemployment benefits<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Belgium, for crying out loud, you\u2019re paying this woman unemployment benefits so that she can sit in her apartments and encourage people to blow up Belgians? Are you out of your minds?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One might wonder.<\/p>\n

Of course, being that Rep. Bachmann is something of a paleoconservative, the only real surprise in the above is that she came to the defense of the “Moroccan Lesbian”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, dog bites man, I guess.<\/p>\n

CORRECTION:\u00a0 I can’t believe I bobbled this; the author was not famed social conservative Representative Michele Bachmann, but in fact \u00fcberliberal gay sex-advice\u00a0columnist and non-Bush-fan Dan Savage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who’d have thunk – Savage gets it.\u00a0 Just goes to show you.<\/p>\n

I regret any inconvience caused by this misunderstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Representative Michele Bachmann (MN6), noted archconservative and immigration hawk, notes this story from Belgium (via the NYTimes, a quote from which starts the excerpt): Al Qaeda Warrior Uses Internet to Rally Women BRUSSELS\u2014On the street, Malika El Aroud is anonymous in an Islamic black veil covering all but her eyes… …She calls herself a female […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}