The Muslim Right and the Anglo-American Left: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

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31. Bet that was printed to counteract an Israeli killing of a Gazan Feminist's family

The timing is oddly coincidental.

The article below was published and began circulating on Monday, after nine members of the family of Asma al-Ghul, a columnist for Al-Monitor, died in an Israeli air strike.

Never Ask Me About Peace Again
First-hand account of the aftermath of an Israeli strike that killed nine members of the author's family.


A relative mourns over bodies of the al-Ghoul family in Rafah.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/08/05/never-ask-me-about-peace-again


So, the very next day after Asma's sad report, the Tablet decides to print a handy little excerpt from Meredith Tax's "Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights"?




Here is Asma's wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asma_al-Ghul

Asma al-Ghul (also Al Ghoul, Alghoul ) is a young secular Palestinian feminist journalist who writes for the Ramallah-based newspaper Al-Ayyam, chronicling what she calls “the corruption of Fatah and the terrorism of Hamas.” Al-Ayyam is sometimes banned in Gaza by Hamas. Al-Ghul is described by the New York Times as "known for her defiant stance against violations of civil rights in Gaza."

Al-Ghul was born in 1982 in Rafah, a Gazan city bordering Egypt whose population is mainly Palestinian refugees. In 2003, she married an Egyptian poet and moved to Abu Dhabi. She and her husband later divorced, and she returned to Gaza with their son. In 2006, al-Ghul permanently took off her Islamic khimār (headscarf).

At the age of 18, al-Ghul won the Palestinian Youth Literature award. In 2010, she received a Hellman/Hammett award from Human Rights Watch, aimed at helping writers "who dare to express ideas that criticize official public policy or people in power." Her work has been translated into English, Danish and Korean.

In 2012, al-Ghul was awarded the Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women's Media Foundation. She works for Lebanon's Samir Kassir Foundation, which advocates for media freedom.

That Wiki piece also highlights some of the repercussions she's faced for standing up for Women's Rights in Occupied Palestine. Since 2006, Asma has become known online as a writer advocating for International Human Rights, the struggle for Women's Liberation in Islamic nations, and ending extremist violence. In her years of blogging and articles, she has severely criticized both Hamas and Fatah, holding true to her ideals of justice and equality and peace for the Palestinian people. And the American Left, Feminists, and Human Rights Movements have praised and promoted her for taking that bold stance.

So, at six in the morning on Sunday, August 3, the extended-family home of such a woman was targeted by not one, but two Israeli IDF F-16 missiles. Decimated and destroyed.

Asma al-Ghul was born in this house

Rescue workers search for victims as Palestinians gather around the wreckage of a house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike that killed at least nine members from the al-Ghoul family, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 3, 2014. (photo by REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/08/rafah-gaza-war-hospitals-filled-bodies-palestinians.html#ixzz39qUTyPXY


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5350114



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