{"id":30083,"date":"2017-01-22T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30083"},"modified":"2017-01-22T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:25:23","slug":"the-dangers-of-following-blindly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30083","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers Of Following Blindly"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/a> posted an article on Friday about the women’s march that took place on Saturday. (Yes, a conservative website quoted The New York Times.)<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

To understand the march better, I stayed up through the nights this week, studying the\u00a0funding, politics and talking points of the some 403 groups<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that are \u201cpartners\u201d of the march. Is this a non-partisan \u201cWomen\u2019s March\u201d?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Roy Speckhardt<\/a>, executive director of the American Humanist Association<\/a>, a march \u201cpartner,\u201d told me his organization was \u201cnonpartisan\u201d but has \u201cmany concerns about the incoming Trump administration that include what we see as a misogynist approach to women.\u201d Nick Fish, national program director of the American Atheists, another march partner, told me, \u201cThis is not a \u2018partisan\u2019 event.\u201d Dennis Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, another march \u201cpartner,\u201d returned my call and said, \u201cThis is not a partisan march.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Really? UnitedWomen.org, another partner, features videos with the hashtags #ImWithHer, #DemsInPhily and #ThanksObama. Following the money, I poured through documents of billionaire George Soros<\/a> and his Open Society philanthropy, because I wondered: What is the link between one of Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u2019s largest donors and the \u201cWomen\u2019s March\u201d?<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder how many of the women marching took the time to investigate the money and planning behind the march.<\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

On the issues I care about as a Muslim, the \u201cWomen\u2019s March,\u201d unfortunately, has taken a stand on the side of partisan politics that has obfuscated the issues of Islamic extremism over the eight years of the Obama administration. \u201cWomen\u2019s March\u201d partners include the Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/a>, which has not only deflected on issues of Islamic extremism post-9\/11, but opposes Muslim reforms that would allow women to be prayer leaders and pray in the front of mosques, without wearing headscarves as symbols of chastity. Partners also include the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> (SPLC), which wrongly designated Maajid Nawaz<\/a>, a Muslim reformer, an\u00a0\u201canti-Muslim extremist\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in a biased report released before the election. The SPLC confirmed to me that Soros funded its \u201canti-Muslim extremists\u201d report targeting Nawaz. (Ironically, CAIR also opposes abortions, but its leader still has a\u00a0key speaking role<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, the marchers and their pink hats have all gone home. What kind of an image did they project? You can find the pictures of some genuine weird on the internet, so I won’t share them. What I will share is the mess they left at the headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I don’t mean to be sexist, but I thought women were neater than that. I am not a member of the DAR (I am not eligible–my ancestors got here too recently for that), but I am deeply offended by the mess these women left. Do they care about the environment? Is there anything they care about other than themselves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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