Women Bloggers and Punditeers Go Wild in a “No Dhimmi” Zone

The blogosphere and punditry in general have been blessed this weekend by gals with guts. It seems unfair to have to list them in any kind of order, as they’ve all brought their A game:

• Dr. Sanity notes the impending 50th anniversary of the speech that should have shattered the illusions of the left about the ultimate resuls of communism for all time (and didn’t), why it didn’t, and why it’s still relevant today. The UK Guardian column by Martin Kettle she refers to is a keeper. A significant portion of the speech in question to is here.
• Anchoress finds an AP story linked at Michelle Malkin about Muslim objections to the “vileness” of Valentine’s, and goes into a V-worded rant for the ages. Also, go back to her priceless 2004 post on where she and her, uh, V-word stand.
• Columnist Diana West (HT Michelle Malkin) rips the Dhimmitudinous (my word) reaction to the Cartoon Jihad of so many in the West who should know better.
• Atlas Shrugs has a post that’s worth it just for the cartoon, but has so much more: “(U.S. newspapers have opted not to publish the Muhammed cartoon images) are the same newspapers that sued the federal government for the right to run the dead floating bodies in the KKKatrina afternmath. But run the hundeds of bodies hitting the ground after throwing themsleves out of the World Trade Center? Never. These dhimmi thumbsuckers make me sick to my stomach.”
• Michelle Malkin distances herself from Ann Coulter’s “raghead” comment, and I understand why she needs to. This is particularly troubling to me, as Coulter has written THE definitive piece on Cold War traitors from the 1940s, through the McCarthy Era, and all the way up to early 2004 in her book “Treason.” The unfortunate thing is that the more she engages in over-the-top rhetoric and turns herself into the shock-jock of the American Right, the less persuasive she becomes, the more what she does rubs off on more temperate conservatives, and the more she gives cover to the “everybody does it” excuse-makers on The Left, which has legions of venom-spewers who go far beyond anything even Coulter has said, and would make stones blush. Enough. Pull it together, Ann — you seem oddly out-of-step right now.
• Moderate Mainstream — “Sorry, but if those that want to protect the sensibilities of Moslems were to for a moment THINK about it, they would laugh at the Moslems protesting their poor insulted sensibilities. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but cartoons….please!”
• Tammy Bruce rips the Swedish government for shutting down a site that depicted cartoons “offensive” to Muslims.

I’m not saying that guys aren’t holding up their end of the bargain defending freedom of expression — not (HT Amy Ridenour), by a, long shot.

But maybe the outstanding work of the women I have just cited (and there are SOOOOO many others) has a special edge to it that you trace to a very basic kind of motivation — It’s stories like this one that make it clear that talented women have the most to lose if Dhimmitude and Sharia, God forbid, ultimately come to dominate, or even consistently intimidate:

Journalist stoned for not wearing a head-scarf

Aliye Cetinkaya, a journalist from the Turkish daily Sabah newspaper, who was reporting on the recent protests over the offensive caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, was stoned in Konya for reasons demonstrators said were provocative – as she did not cover her head. Cetinkaya was taken away by male colleagues after stones hit her head and shoulders. The female journalist was attacked for being ‘sexually provocative’ for not wearing a head scarf at the demonstration organised by the Peoples Education Research and Support Group in Konya (He-Da-Der) and entitled ‘Loyalty to the Prophet’.

A group of protestors insisted that Aliye Cetinkaya get off the bus where she was reporting the march, as they claimed she was provoking the crowd. At this moment, somebody started reciting the Koran into a microphone.

Approximately 30 people then started throwing stones at Cetinkaya, seated with her legs dangling from the back of the vehicle and taking notes. They claimed that her clothes and way of sitting was inappropriate while the Koran was being read, and shouted words of abuse at her.

Cetinkaya had to be rescued by her colleagues and said, “We were doing our job as journalists. But apparently some people found that not covering my head was provocative. They called me a blasphemer while I was sitting on the bus. They threw stones and shoes. As a reporter from Konya I was ashamed.”

And a final reminder about what is driving people who should know better to Dhimmitude: