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I left my California idyll, and soared into milky, hazy US skies.
I touched down to change planes in Minneapolis, which I recalled as having been the corn-fed, friendly Midwest.
I saw that now, almost everyone employed by the airlines, as well as everyone working as ground crew, was of Somali descent, or were recent arrivals from Somalia.
They spoke Arabic or Somali to one another, not even bothering with English; passengers and colleagues alike were greeted with a hand to the heart. The flight attendants for Delta, out of Minneapolis, wore chic little grey attenuated hijabs, pinned to their hair. (They happened also to be in furious moods.)
I have no problem with reasonable legal immigration; I have no problem with other religions. But I did wonder what had happened to all of the US-born former staffers that used to be employed in those fairly well-paying jobs. It was not diversity I was seeing now, but a new kind of hegemony.
I wondered what kind of security issue it might represent when an entire major US travel hub was now under the management of a single recently-arrived nationality; one that is not our own.
The fact that the entire sensitive Minneapolis-St Paul airport infrastructure — which I was surprised to learn is a joint civil and US military facility — is in the hands of Somalis, is an example, to me, of the chaos and vulnerability we import when we in the West lift humans wholesale out of their sometimes-dangerous, sometimes-abusive contexts, and re-situate them in influential Western contexts, with almost no acculturation, or assimilation metrics.
“The immigrant” is positioned always in liberal discourse as in need of “our” “help.” The narrative is always about “our” “responsibilities” to such immigrants, and all of the immigrants are always positioned within this narrative as being a/ helpless and b/ innocent. And C — the immigrants’ culture that is being imported along with the immigrant, is always supposed to enhance the United States’ culture, simply because it is “other” from the nasty, racist, homogenous culture of the United States.
In fact, this narrative actually to me itself seems to be quite racist; simply a new, NGO-reframed revamp of the condescending 18th-century European trope of the non-European innocent, admirable “Noble Savage.”
This narrative, indeed, reveals, in my view, a profound ignorance about the actual world — a lack of awareness of the kinds of struggles that peace-loving, justice-loving, freedom-loving people, living in failed states and under oppressive regimes, actually face.
Some societies are in fact neither helpless nor innocent.
At the level of leadership and of social contracts, and especially of the treatment of women and girls, Somalia, to take just one example, is a horrible, culpable society.
Individual Somalis no doubt are likely to be people of great decency. But look at Somali norms and society as a whole, which we are also importing when we resettle people en masse.
According to Amnesty International, all parties in that nations’ current civilian conflict, a confrontation between the government and a militia group named Al-Shabaab, abuse their own civilians and deprive their own people of human rights. In other words, no Somali party is innocent.
The crisis in Somalia is not currently derived from those cliches of racialized identities, “white against black”, or “colonizer versus colonized”. It is, rather, a crisis of Somali against Somali. And very specifically, it is a crisis of Somali men against Somali women and girls.
There are half a million internally displaced Somali people, 80 per cent of them women and children, who are suffering horrific abuses, including sexual assault, forced marriages, and “gender-based violence” — meaning beatings and female genital mutilation — at the hands of Somalis.
According to the European Union Agency for Asylum, female genital mutilation affects almost the entire female population of Somalia:
The chart above, explains FGM/C Research Institute, shows a dip in the ages 15-19 simply because girls that age may not have been “cut” yet.
In 2018, three young girls, two of them sisters, died within a single week in Somalia, from complications arising from female genital mutilation.
A 13-year-old girl died of female genital mutilation in Somalia in 2021 — and the Guardian reported a rise in the practice during the pandemic.
Yet, points out Amnesty International: “The federal [Somali] parliament failed to pass bills on sexual offences and female genital mutilation.”
According to the FGM/C Research Initiative, which centers on studying the issue of female genital mutilation, a staggering 99.2% of girls and women in Somalia aged 15-49 have endured female genital mutilation. The average ages when Somali girls are “cut” is from ten to fourteen years of age.
Even though, worldwide, many Muslim feminists and even progressive Imams are speaking out against the practice, and pointing out that female genital mutilation is not in fact demanded by Islam, 72% of Somali girls and women believe that this mutilation is a requirement of their religion.
The Somali community has the highest percentage of genitally mutilated women in the world; there are 61,000 Somali people in the state of Minnesota alone, and many sources confirm that Somali girls and women continue to suffer genital mutilation while in the United States. In other words, Somali immigrants in Minnesota have not stopped this abuse of “their” girls and women, just because they are now also Minnesotans. A scholarly article asserts that between 150,000 and 200,000 American African girls are still at risk of undergoing genital mutilation:
“Sanctuary for Families indicates that Somali and other African families import traditional practitioners from overseas into the United States to circumcise their daughters, and in some cases, they send their daughters abroad for circumcision. The practice of sending their daughters abroad has become known as “vacation cutting”’.
So these communities’ arrival physically in America did not magically heal this cultural corruption. This culture of mutilation has not in fact vanished. This nation did not magically wash this cruelty, away.
Somali “female circumcision” is different from other forms — it is by far the most severe. Somali FGM is Type III genital mutilation, which means the excision of the entire outer part of girls’ genitalia, and the stitching together of the raw wound that is left behind. Somali FGM involves: “the complete removal of the clitoris and labia minora, together with the inner surface of the labia majora (Jones, Ehiri, &Anyanwu, 2004; Rasaq, 2012; Weir, 2000).”
In the image above, the green areas represent the tissue that is excised in each form of “female genital mutilation.” The Somali versions are the two images in the last row.
Women and girls subjected to this kind of mutilation suffer chronic bleeding, horrific pain during intercourse, problems in childbirth, infections, and dramatically increased mortality: “This increased mortality rate translates into an estimated 44,320 excess deaths per year across countries where FGM is practised. These estimates imply that FGM is a leading cause of the death of girls and young women in those countries where it is practised accounting for more deaths than any cause other than Enteric Infections, Respiratory Infections, or Malaria.”
Somalis now represent over one per cent of the Minnesota population. This organized, politicized community, of course, can now swing elections. Why should we think that, since this horrific practice endures even now in the US, a ten per cent make-up of Somalis in Minnesota, won’t alter American culture in the direction of this kind of misogyny — a form of misogyny that Somali women themselves are seeking to combat?
For that matter, why should we assume that a mass influx of immigrants from closed societies, will champion open societies?
There is no freedom of expression in Somalia, for example. Journalists are being killed, arrested and detained there. The head of a media group, Ali Nur Salad, was arrested when he posted on social media that the drug khat was being used by Al-Shabaab members. Salad was denied legal representation. He faces charges “including “offending the honour or prestige of the head of state”, “committing obscene acts”, “distributing obscene publications and performances”, “insult”, and “criminal defamation”, as well as restrictions on travel and [on] speaking to the media.”
The government of Somalia raids live television debates: “On 6 January, Somaliland intelligence officers raided the offices of MM Somali TV in Hargeisa, the Somaliland capital, interrupting a live debate about […] Ethiopia/Somaliland […]. They arrested the MM Somali TV chair, Mohamed Abdi Sheikh (also known as “Ilig”), Ilyas Abdinasir, a technician, and Mohamed Abdi Abdullahi, a reporter.” The International Federation of Journalists condemned the arrests.
Somali journalist Mohamed Abdi Sheikh and two other reporters who were arrested with him:
That — that failed state, that society without the rule of law or protections for free expression; that society that sees fit to gouge little girls between the legs with razors, to excise their clitorises, and to injure them permanently; those bad norms; as opposed to “bad individuals” or “a bad group of people” — let alone “a bad ethnicity” — are what we should object to importing wholesale; in this case, to run the management of our key airport hub in the sensitive center of our nation.
Reporters in Somalia, women in Somalia, refugees in Somalia, even Parliamentarians in Somalia — “On 2 September, Somaliland police arrested Mohamed Abiib, an outspoken opposition MP, and detained him in Mandera Prison” —- live in a state of fear. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations call Somalia a “failed state.”
It is okay for us here in the West not to want to live in the state of fear, that many Somalis, Afghanis, rural Pakistanis, in much of civil society — as well as journalists in Mexico, and anti-trafficking activists in Colombia — suffer.
Voice of America, in an article about Somali “Political Victories in the West”, reports that Somalis in Minnesota have become well organized politically: “Abdirahman Sharif, the imam and the leader of the Dar-Al-Hijrah Mosque in Minneapolis says another reason Somalis have risen in U.S. politics is because they are a tight-knit community.
“When Somalis came to [the] U.S., they moved to a foreign country where they could not communicate with people. So, for them, being close to people from their country meant having someone to communicate with and that helped them to unite their votes, and resources for political aspirants,” Sharif said.” Imam Sharif says nothing about Somalis wanting to learn to communicate with their American neighbors, or about their wishing to help America to succeed, or wishing to contribute to the shared destiny of all Americans. In this article, at least, the Somali political voice is a separatist one. The article describes Somali electeds gaining high office also in Britain and Canada and Finland, Norway and Sweden. Other Somali leaders stress with pride the separateness of the community. A Swedish Somali leader similarly does not mention wishing to contribute to Sweden, which welcomed the community, or wishing to assimilate into Swedish society successfully. Rather he too is proud of the separateness of the community:
“Mohamed Gure, a former member of the council of the city of Borlänge, Sweden, said there are unique things that keep Somalis together and make them successful in the politics in Europe.
“The fabric of Somalis is unique compared to the other diaspora communities. They share the same ethnicity, color, language, and religion. There are many things that keep them together that divide them back home. So, their togetherness is one reason I can attribute to their successes,” Gure said.”
Somalia is just one example of a separatist immigrant society with viciously misogynist practices. But across Europe, and in Britain, other viciously misogynist societies’ norms are being imported wholesale, along with mass separatist immigration.
British and European and Irish women have started to protest against the harassment, intimidation and sexual violence directed against them by immigrant men from various countries that treat women and girls badly; these attacks are being minimized by the courts in these “advanced” nations. In Britain, a British mother of a 12 year old girl, Lucy Connolly, who had recently lost her young son, is in jail for 31 months for a tweet she posted in the wake of the murder of three little British girls, at their dance practice, by an immigrant. Conolly called for immigrant housing to be burnt down “for all I care” and for immigrants to be deported.
Meanwhile, in March of 2025, a pregnant Scots woman in Glasgow was raped by a Muslim Deliveroo driver, Mohammed Khan, so violently that he caused her to miscarry. That rapist received a twelve month sentence.
I have avoided engaging in this issue to date because I know sadly that it is not only migrant men who rape European, British and US women; many European, British and American men rape women routinely as well. So I was reluctant to accept that something new was happening. But by now, the way in which British, Irish, European and US women describe new levels of street harassment and of sexual violence, and new levels of impunity for abusers from the courts (in the US, that is, before President Trump was elected), leads me sadly to conclude that this situation is not “rape culture as usual”.
Rather, I think we need to face the fact that the Globalist push to flood the West with millions of men from brutally misogynist societies, and to let them do their worst, with sexual and with other kinds of violence, to women and girls, with near-impunity, is part of a war on women and girls that is deliberate; and that this form of assault is of a piece with promoting abusive neologisms such “birthing people”, abusive situations such as public spectacles of men beating women in boxing rings, the erasure of women’s safe spaces such as restrooms and changing rooms, and in general the erasure of women and girls as a respected, let alone understood, let alone in some ways even protected, category of human beings.
We have to stop talking about this issue as if it is one of race or ethnicity or even religion; and we must understand that this issue is profoundly one of social contracts that are utterly different from each other. You are not a “rightwing extremist” or a “white supremacist” to not want in the US, or in England, or France, or the Netherlands, what unfortunate women and children and journalists and MPs suffer and endure — and protest and resist — in Somalia and in other conflicted, beleaguered lands.
The West took millennia of effort and struggle to evolve the rule of law; freedom of expression; the equal rights of women and religious and racial minorities, and homosexuals, as I have pointed out elsewhere. You could do this same deep dive into the norms of many of the nations whose entire societies have been imported wholesale to the West: Afghanistan, Yemen, rural Pakistan, parts of Haiti, parts of Central America.
It takes at least two generations of steady acculturation to absorb the values of stable civil-law-based, egalitarian, open pluralistic societies. It took at least two generations for my relatives to leave behind the instincts of the shtetl.
We in the West have to start to be unafraid to say what rights organizations say routinely: some social contracts are just better than others.
Everything is in fact not the same.
We need to be unafraid to say: “You know what, some things are in fact better. It is in fact better to have a society with a rule of law; it is better to have a society that does not force women into marriage, or tear apart the genitals of young girls, or arrest TV debaters in mid-sentence, or detain its Parliamentarians.
“We are going to protect our own precious social contract, first by protecting our borders, and second by protecting our futures, our norms, our languages and cultures and histories, and our rule of law; our women and children and the vulnerable; and there is nothing racist or xenophobic about that commitment.”
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I made it home to Brian and to Loki. I should have been at peace. Loki gazed at me adoringly. (Some dogs never hold grudges.) Brian told me hilarious stories and made me his delicious hot coffee, with cream, and we sat on the porch and looked at the high sun in the trees.
Still — I was edgy.
Coming up to July 4th, 2025, in spite of leadership from MAGA that often delighted me, the American nation still felt so unstable. No one in legacy institutions, on the left, or in globalist networks, seemed to have learned anything from the recent past.
That was scary.
On the plane from California to Minneapolis and from Minneapolis to Boston, I had been reading memoirs by luminaries on the Left. They seemed bizarrely uninformed, working still within cultlike, two-dimensional reasoning.
The otherwise brilliant novelist Salman Rushdie, in his memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder — a book about the Islamist would-be assassin who nearly succeeded in murdering the author on a lecture stage in Chautauqua, New York — describes major voices of his generation, from Paul Auster to Martin Amis, post 2021, developing cancer or other serious illnesses; suddenly becoming mortally ill, or dying.
Not a flicker of awareness rises off of Rushdie’s pages about what could have caused this plague, that swept a generation of major novelistic talents, into annihilation.
Rushdie also describes MAGA voters with contempt. As he travels across states in the US, he sneers at the Trump signs.
Rushdie describes giving a speech on “freedom of expression” in 2022, for the writer’s free speech organization PEN America, at the United Nations. But Rushdie does not notice that the administration he was championing — the Biden/Harris administration — had damagingly silenced people such as Dr Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford; Dr Martin Kulldorff of Harvard; and many others; including me, for that matter.
He reviles the fanaticism that led to his assailant, a Muslim extremist, taking a knife to a 73-year-old man. But he does not notice that we don’t support Fatwas, or fanatical theocracies, here. We don’t kowtow to Imams. Or to priests, or to rabbis, here.
He objects to our American “white supremacy” “exerting itself” over Black and women’s bodies. But this is in fact a metaphor. It is not our law.
In fact, actually, white and black women can go from state to state, still, in America, if they wish to secure an abortion, which is what Rushdie is talking about.
It is the Global South, much deified by the Left, that actually “exerts itself” over Black and women’s bodies.
It is in fact, in law, fanatical, extremist Muslim societies, among others, that “exert themselves” over girls’ and women’s bodies.
But somehow Rushdie takes aim at us — racist old America, that eternal whipping boy — from the podium of the UN, instead of at those actually culpable nations.
Why would that be? Hm; could it be because it is easier and safer to attack “racist old America,” where in fact girls and women of every race, actually have rights — because we in America are unlikely to issue a Fatwa against him?
Rushdie, in his UN speech, does not notice that we don’t have female genital mutilation, as an organic part of our culture. Or militias interrupting debates. He gives no credit to the warm shelter of America, which made him a citizen; which created the shelter for him of the First Amendment, and received him at a time when major voices in Britain were attacking him for having spoken out inconveniently.
He barely credits an America that he describes consistently as treating him and his loved ones with kindness, and accepting him and his family with open arms — an America that assigned, indeed, a US Attorney to prosecute his assailant.
His right-on contempt for half of the nation, is so recognizable to me; it is so tiresome, so ill-thought-out:
“We are engaged in a war of stories — a war between incompatible versions of reality — and we need to learn how to fight it.
A tyrant has arisen in Russia and brutality engulfs Ukraine, whose people, led by a satirist turned hero, offer heroic resistance, and are already creating a legend of freedom…. Meanwhile America is sliding back toward the Middle Ages, as white supremacy exerts itself not only over Black bodies, but over women’s bodies too. [Italics mine]. False narratives rooted in antiquated religiosity and bigoted ideas from hundreds of years ago are used to justify this, and find willing audiences and believers”…[That is you, MAGA, in case you did not catch it].
He goes on to complain about his adopted country:
“[T]here was a war to fight on many fronts — against the bigoted revisionism that sought to rewrite history, whether in New Delhi or in Florida [you again, MAGA]; against the cynical powers that sought to erase the two original sins of the United States, slavery and oppression and genocide of the country’s original inhabitants; against fantasies of an idealized past (when exactly was America “great” in the way those red hats wanted to re-create?)”…
At that point, I just wanted to throw the little beige volume across the room.
I am tired, tired, tired of this. This rudeness, this churlishness, this taking for granted of our beautiful ethos, our welcome.
This slap in the face of Lady Liberty.
I am tired of this ungraciousness; visitors to our nation’s universities terrifying our nation’s actual students; global intellectuals welcomed by us, scolding us from the platforms of the biggest fora in the world; deriding half of our electorate, as if they know better than half of America, about America; when in fact they know nothing about half of America; when they have probably never spoken to “those red hats” in their lives; when in fact — they could no doubt learn something from that sneered-at half of America.
I am tired of this use of the shelter of our lovely First Amendment to do nothing but cavil at us, instead of setting to with all the rest of us, actually to make America better — out of love; out of reverence and appreciation.
I am tired of such people, such immigrants, legal or illegal, who have so little appreciation for where they actually are, and for what it took from American generations past to bestow upon them the “Philadelphia freedom” that now they treat so lightly and so dishonorably.
It’s cool on the intellectual Left to mock and deride America. I for one am done with such people.
If America is so bad, Mr Rushdie, try moving back to Britain now, where people are in prison for tweets. Where intellectuals grudged you even government-funded protection.
Try India now, where seven journalists are behind bars.
Try living in any of the nations that supported the Fatwa against you.
No?
Hm. I don’t blame you.
Maybe America is pretty good, in spite of our “original sins”, after all.
Maybe America is pretty good — to you.
Indeed, maybe America has, for all its flaws, been great;
Is great.
You are here, after all — out of the whole world of places you could be — and maybe we are also in the process of making America —
Great Again.
“[T]hose red hats.”
We benighted, lowbrow patriots.
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If you are going to come to America, Somali immigrants, Pakistani immigrants, Salvadoranean immigrants, Indian and British and Mexican and German immigrants —
Come legally, learn the language, stop injuring girls and women, whoever you are; join the culture, the ethos, and be American.
America is not an economy. It is not a location.
America is a social contract.
If you are going to benefit from it — and you are — I want to say: you must give back to it in kind.
Otherwise please peacefully just leave. Seriously.
Honestly that is how I feel; I feel that our “empathy”, our “inclusiveness”, have inadvertently let millions into our homes, who have zero respect for our family’s values, and no intentions whatsoever of actually joining our family.
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Brian and I sat quietly, getting ready internally for the tiring flight to Britain the next day.
The Fourth of July was coming up. We would be in the UK during our nation’s birthday.
The headlines were full of wars and the rumors of wars.
“The war is speeding up,” said Brian comfortably. To him, a soldier, this is a good thing, because you know where your enemy is, and what your enemy’s objectives are. “When things move fast, plans fall apart, and the enemy exposes himself”, he explained.
I was done with the war. As I have told you, I am not a warrior by nature.
I had set out to be a poet.
But our nation needs us. On her birthday, she needs a new birth of freedom. She needs our recommitment.
I suppose that the war – a peaceful war, I trust, but still a fierce one; a battle of values — is speeding up, and becoming clearer.
I suppose that the war is not done with me.
Well stated! I have had these same thoughts over the past ten to fifteen years ( I’m 76) and never heard it stated so clearly. I applaud your honesty and your thoughts.
25 years ago I would have avoided anything Naomi Wolf had to say like the plague. But I must admit the Red-pilled version of Naomi is 100% right on! Now, I LOVE reading her literate, articulate, and reasoned arguments. Forgive me Naomi … but you possess the LOGIC I had thought was the near-exclusive purview of the male sex.
Without hesitation …. If were asked the 5 people I would choose to have a creamed coffee with … Naomi would be in the top 3. Thank you Naomi … for the BEST July 4, CELEBRATION of America I read, observed, or experienced this year. I dearly love reading you.
Brilliant and fullsome analysis!
Dennis Prager will ❤️ this . Has he congratulated you yet? He consistently harps on just how UGLY a trait ingratitude is, and your long section on Salman Rushdie will stand out to him no doubt.
Dennis Prager is such a light-weight.
Judeo-Christianity gave the world Western civilization and America — what a joke.
Actually T., you are the lightweight. Judeo Christianity did give us Western Civilization, whether you like it or not.
You are also the joke. But hey, keep whining. Maybe some day you will get it right.
No, he has some kind of brain damage. Keeps making the same mistake, never learns.
Yes I have noted that, keeps on repeating the same old mantra.
I think he just appreciates down votes!
“Judeo-Christian” is an oxymoron.
There is no such thing as “Judeo-Christian.”
It is a term manufactured to serve an agenda.
That “light weight” has more wisdom than a fool who insists Christianity brought us communism ☭.
Stalin (like Hitler) made a methodical effort to eradicate “the opiate of the masses”, starting by surrounding cathedrals with walls & dismantling them. He only released those rube, backward Orthodox priests (quietly) when his fellow atheist Hitler invaded.
Prager shows up to hostile environments at leftist indoctrination camps a.k.a. colleges and takes all comers.
His Prager U videos are top-notch. Whereas, your short posts are almost always the same crybaby song.
Just curious. When did you post your 100th “Christianity sucks!” rant on this site alone?
You’re perhaps projecting you poor reading comprehension skills onto us.
Only that would explain why you’ll eagerly post another 100 (I only waste my time with your short ones, as most skip over your long, droning ones – always saying the same thing anyway.)
Big Sister Is Watching You…
“America is not an economy. It is not a location.
America is a social contract.”
The idea of a “social contract” leaves wide open the question of what kind of social contract are we talking about?
A social contract can be based on justice and a social contract can be based on injustice.
Did America have the perfect social contract based on objective law and justice from the beginning? Or however historical, monumental, and paradigm shifting it was and has been, nevertheless still had and has fatal flaws in it that needed and need to be resolved?
Ayn Rand criticized social contract theory, arguing that it often implies individuals must sacrifice their rights for the sake of the state. She believed that a legitimate government should exist solely to protect individual rights.
“All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary coexistence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man’s life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man’s life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights….
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more—and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e., an individual’s freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by the government. The next was the economic implementation of political freedom: the system of capitalism.” – Ayn Rand
Too long, too predictable, too Ayny Randy, didn’t read. And besides I have laundry to do.
Same here. He’s a stale one-note song, played over & over.
(Why bother reading, when he’s said the same thing dozens & dozens of times already?)
“America is not an economy. It is not a location.
America is a social contract.”
America is absolutely an economy and a location and a specific kind of social contract.
The only way to implement individual rights is through private property rights and that means defending and protecting material values. Man is an integrated being of body and spirit, and by spirit I mean consciousness, not the supernatural, mystical, soul of religion. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost, neither a corpse nor a ghost can pursue or achieve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which includes producing material values for survival and flourishing.
It is the businessman, the entrepreneur, the inventor, and the tinkerer that has made life so much better, and a great spiritual/material pleasure for modern Americans. It certainly wasn’t Mother Teresa, Moses, Jesus Christ, or Salman Rushdie, who raised the standard of living for Americans or the world.
“It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing ‘compassion’ for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.” ― Thomas Sowell
“If everyone were Mother Teresa [or Jesus Christ], we’d all inhabit a material and spiritual wasteland far worse than anything she faced while walking the streets of Calcutta all those years. And while she may have alleviated the suffering of a few, for a time, remember that she did nothing to lift that civilization out of poverty in any permanent, meaningful way. Only self-interested, profit-seeking, materialistic economic progress – the capitalism Pope Francis hates so much – can ever do that.” – Michael J. Hurd, “Thank God We’re Not All mother Teresa [or Jesus Christ]”
Hey T., are you a business man? What great biz did you create? What great product?
Maybe you could invent an automated copy paste app that would automatically insert all of those articles you have appropriated.
Too much work? Hold on to those index cards.
Thank God we are not all Michael J. Hurd!
“The only way to implement individual rights is through private property rights and that means defending and protecting material values.”
Agreed that private property is essential to individual rights, but what are “material values” and why do they need protecting?
I 😍Thomas Sowell.
So, is it because Ilhan Omar no longer has a clit that makes her so p_ssed-off?
No wonder they all have attitudes !
probably that along with being an inbred freak!
good point –
A bit of humor – in the movie “The Rat Race” scene “Eh they’re always pissed honey, they’re Nazis! Like it’s their job”
These fucking fathead fatwah jihadists are always pissed, like it’s their job!
Nope – The Pursuit of Happiness is core and doable in USA – for short periods of time – free thinking and capitalism can give us modicum of happiness – natural love and faith in GOD ALMIGTY and JESUS CHRIST has done it for me most of the time.
Careful……she may be of the 0.6% that got lucky and escaped the knife.
It is so sickening, nauseating really, the Somali culture. In fact all of Islam’s treatment of women. Only demons could have thought of this.
Actually, noone thought of it, it is a pitfall inherent in the world that they fell into without realizing it. A vicious circle.
A viscous oval ? (°) ??
Sorry.
I downvoted myself for giving in to my National Lampoontang sense of humor.〰️
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Anyway, those who want the Congressional Muslimas examined to see if they have been cut cannot use gynaecologists, because of doctor patient confidentiality.
However,
The National Zoo has a week nderful staff of Primatologists, and their vetinarians are NOT sworn to secrecy. Use THEM to do the exams. 🫣
Again, autocorrect makes a substitution!
Foul!
W o n d e r f u l for ‘week nderful’ …
Do you not understand? Muslims will never leave peacefully, as they are here to expand the reach of the House of Islam. I just watched a clip of Omar Fateh, a Somali aspiring to be mayor of Minneapolis. He spoke of his being part of the Somali community, both here and “back home.” He said nothing about having any wish or intention to represent any other groups if elected. The Qur’an repeatedly exhorts believers to emigrate, as Muhammad did when he left Mecca in 622 C.E. and moved to Medina, where he became a powerful, feared warlord. To emigrate is to emulate the actions of the Prophet, which is what all Muslims are enjoined to do – it is *Sunna.” The purpose of emigration into the West is to establish a beachhead from which new Muslim communities may be established, and thus begin the Islamization of the new territory.. They’re not going anywhere unless we expel them.
Naomi overstated severly one point; that of rape being equally proportional.
Jug-eared Barry dumped islamists in red, middle-American neighborhoods. When a HUGE upspike in rapes occurred in Idaho, the rube, fly-over residents were infuriated.
When they voiced their alarm at Obama dumping that rape-culture in their once quiet area, A.G. Loretta Lynch threatened to charge them with “hate crimes” if they didn’t shut up about it.
Also; the islamist darlings celebrated New Years 2016 in Cologne Germany by finger raping over 1,200 women.
Sounds exclusively islam to me.
(Previously one German leftist bitch blamed her rape on a native white man. It was more important to her to prevent “islamophobia” than stop her assailant from doing it again.)
Also; Lary Elder interviewed a German woman who told her American husband to take her to America. Those refuge camps that were set up were raping ad nauseum.
Her words: “It’s not a matter of IF, it’s a matter of WHEN.”
(Lucky for her, Eric Holder didn’t get wind of her, or he’d have started deportation proceedings as he did to the Romeike family.)
Naomi should factor that in. Other than that, she’s giving good analysis, and I’m glad she made her journey to the common-sence side (aided by her former liberals turning on her so viciously.)
I noticed the same thing.
No one disputes mankind shares commonality, but statements which commit the sin of noticing racial differences while white can avoid blasphemy by qualifying these statements with “of course white people do it too.”
The need to flatten humanity into one homogenous blob to achieve equality / equity is required by the post-war liberal consensus which we have been required to believe since the 1960’s. The propensity to rape is not equally distributed among humanity’s races. This truth should be simply acknowledged without qualification or apology.
Good point. I was reading about wars between Germany and Ancient Rome, it was mentioned incidentally that rape was a huge taboo amongst the German tribes..
It is true. They also held marriage in very high regard.
Perhaps the earth’s post-flood families lost the knowledge of God at varying rates and degrees? The greater the loss of this knowledge, the greater the wickedness and perversion of that people and nation. It would explain a lot.
“Islamization ” is by submission or FORCE. Death to America is not just a Slogan it’s a promise and is their real intention toward the Infidels in America.
We don’t want their Sharia Laws Forced upon us we prefer our U.S. Constitution No forcing 12 year old Girls to marry someone old enough to be her Grandpa and No Honor Killings either
Some muslim piece of shit did an “honor” killing of his daughter here in Texas.
It was over a decade until he was finally caught. The reason is simple; like minded islamists agreed with his sentiment and gave him refuge.
Bullshit “honor” killings of dads and/or family members has happened often.
Take note that our wise politicians never dump these low-lifes in their posh enclaves (Martha’s Vineyard residents couldn’t even stomach 48 Venezuelan illegals. They were bused out 2 days later.).
They only dump them in ours.
Ergo, they know the damage that follows, but could care less.
Or, the damage is deliberate.
That was the beautiful and brave Pamela Geller who did not give up and kept the pressure on. I think she may have even purchased a grave site. She is a magnificent woman.
It’s great to see Naomi Wolf having evolved to embrace the conservative side of things. She is an excellent essayist.
Brava!
No one has satisfactorily answered. A simple question: why is it racist for white Europeans to have created white European culture?
No one makes this demand of any of the cultures of color, say for example, India or China.
Is it racist for China to have invented Chinese culture with no representation for any other culture.
No one asks the question why all races are not represented equally in Zulu culture.
Descendants of white Europeans must participate in their own destruction. We are, as Stephen Wolfe explains, our only in-group’s out group. Everybody else is free to come here, wave their native countries’ flags, live here upon our largesse while simultaneously hating us and advocating for our destruction with our government’s encouragement, approval and our hard-earned tax dollars.
Now do you understand?
Is Ilhan Omar a pious practicing muslima, or is she sporting a clitoris like some sort of western whore?
One of the greatest commentaries ever published here.
Those of us who have been on the ” Right” for many more years than you have been screaming about this for years. Yes, female genital mutilation is terrible and done by the mothers and aunts of the new victim. Adding to that horror is the ” honor killings” of their daughters and sisters. Welcome to the club of perpetual anxiety.
Some mutilations are performed by clergy or medical personnel, others by unskilled females for reasons of economy or propriety. Having themselves been subjected to the procedure at an early age, they cannot understand the significance of the organ to be excised. They believe only that they are securing the girl’s future by making her acceptable for marriage (by Islamic standards).
I don’t take Amnesty International seriously any more.
I never have.
The Innocence Project is another bullshit grift. They labor to free guilty-as-hell scumbags such as The Central Park Five.
After those five filth were freed (and had a $250 million lawsuit filed on their behalf), The Innocence Project pricks held a celebratory event. For cover they brought in the Duke lacrosse students – recently exhonerated with zero help from them.
The photo-op was only to imply that they had.
I seem to recall that a lifer with no hope of parole and nothing to lose, suddenly declared himself the Central Park rapist. He befriended one of the 5 in prison and perhaps expected benefits from a contact on the outside who could bring him goodies.
Matias Reyes was cell mates with Yusef Salaam.
Matias took the fall to an eager press/leftist DA.
(Leftist scum like Al Sharpton had chronically demanded the Five’s exhonoration.
His supporters scream insults & threats to make sure they were “heard”.)
Persistence coupled with bald-faced lies finally paid off.
Matias’ well rehearsed bullshit story sold, because it was the happy ending they all wanted.
(The $250 million suit was settled for $41 million. Nice to know crushing taxes in NY go to such worthy causes.)
I got as far as, “Individual Somalis no doubt are likely to be people of great decency.”
Well I have my doubts. You have no reason to believe this other than you’ve bought into the leftist bullshit.
I would like to rephrase the comment to we all have to potential to become people of great decency – the sins of our ancestors are visted upon us now and we have to rectify and not allow the satanic demoniacs to take over the USA.
As the USA goes, so goes the world and this MAGA POTUS 47 term is our last hope to get it right, just as Israel has to get it right on destroying hamass and hellsbullshita and the current leaders of Iran or there will be no peace, only a chance for them to arm up and train more infidels to murder more Israelis and others in the free world!
Right, there’s nothing like air travel in the US and feeling like your’e in a foreign country up there in the “friendly skies.” Grateful I will probably not have the need to fly out of or into Minneapolis any time soon, but eventually it won’t be just Mpls, it will be other major airline hubs, too, NYC, Chicago, LA, etc.
Great article (I scolled past the graphics, though. Thank you.).
The author Naomi Wolf is a notorious Jew-hater. Please see her website:
https://dailyclout.io/?s=Israel
I’m shocked that she would be posted here at FPM. Who next? Tucker Carlson (praised on that linked page)?
I navigated to https://dailyclout.io/ and I see nothing but MAGA and no antisemitism – then I just looked at the home page – no deep dive
Do you care to site one antisemitic anti-MAGA article?
I provided a link for you. Look down the page. Naomi Wolf is as much self-hating Jewish as Norman Finkelstein.
There are no words to describe the loathesomeness of a woman like Naomi
wolfer who would compare the warm, and nurturing shtetel that she assures us she has moved beyond with the barbaric practices of Islam. A woman so imbued with hatred of what she is and where she comes from is not deserving of a public forum even if, like the proverbial stopped clock, she is right about the inhumanity of the Somalis. Left unmentioned by the author is why so many Muslims want their wives and daughters to be sexually dead. The answer is in the teachings of the imams who say that a woman who moves her hips during sex, who actually enjoys sex, is a “prostitute.” Is it any surprise that coming from such a demented culture, Rep. Ilhan Omar is such an unrepentant sack of shit?
A woman who moves her hips during sex loves the man she is having sex with – that is the difference between men and women – men want sex regardless of love or not – women want the love to be sexy – that’s why there are so many morbidly obese women and men in USA – they were never taught nor demonstrated this in child rearing because of the divorce rate due to women’s lib which turned out to be a double edges sword that lead us to DEI!
Bluesmen call it the jelly roll. 〰️
Everything stated in this article reinforces WHY Somalis should REMAIN in Somalia/Somaliland! It’s really that simple!
What can you say to such a stirring piece?
Welcome home to our prodigal daughter is the only thing I need to say.
What can you say to such a stirring piece?
Welcome home to our prodigal daughter is the only thing I need to say.
I have not flown in an airline since 2022 and that was from Tucson to LA – I was shocked that Delta in it’s Minneapolis hub has bended under Sharia DEI!
Then I got increasingly pissed as I read this article.
I noticed comments that the author, Naomi is being labeled an antisemite.
I know nothing about the author of this article.
What did come to mind is a dream I had when I was 6 years old where UFOs were drawing fire from Earthlings and the nations joined in for this common threat. I recall this dream vividly and wondered is this is what is going to help save us from nuclear anhelation – From Ezekiel Chapter 1 YHVH’S Flying Craft and Guardian Warring Angels to the UFOs are us in the future coming back to make sure we do not annihilate ourselves, they will create a common bond amongst ignorant current social evolution of humans so we don’t annihilate ourselves and for this, they are always coming back and we are always on the brink of anhelation.
I thought well maybe KKK, White Supremists, Black Supremists, and Jews, blacks, and everyone else mistrusting of each other to push back and deport all fatwa jihadists that are Hell Bent on destroying USA and the damned fool demoncraps that have bent over for the globalist agenda?
That is what we need to do and get it right, get it straight just as Israel can no longer futz around but destroy the head of the serpent, Iran’s mullahs who are responsible for the proxy malitias like hamass and hellzbullshita.
Here is my experience with female mutilation – I had a very gorgeous and hot girlfriend who was raped when she was young – it damaged her vagina and she experienced painful intercourse except when we were in passionate love in our sex – I was a nymphomaniac when I was young and needed sex all the time – most women I met didn’t like all the damn time so I had to stray – young dumb and full of cum as they say, and I had no mentoring on relationships and how to treat a woman – that’s fucked up and now with white hair, I can only teach, I cannot undo the past, or try again – that’s the reality of human life –
Fuck religion – it’s the opiate of the masses and is a firewall between us and GOD ALMIGHTY AND OUR SAVIOR AND LORD JESUS CHRIST!
A good way to understand how the women who experience FGM feel about it, and why the older women who have already been through it defend the practice, is to read the first part of Ayaan Hirsi Al’s “Infidel”. https://www.amazon.com/Infidel-Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali/dp/0743289692
An addendum to my previous comment on female mutilation:
One last comment on having intercourse with women who were raped – my experience – and the sooner men start teaching this to boys the happier and more adjusted future generations will be and women’s lib will have no more need other than the fine example of many female leaders we have and have had.
This girlfriend I mentioned that I think I may hear when I get to Paradise, that I was supposed to marry her, is her vagina, damaged by rape, gave her pain and PTSD unless our love making was totally passionate then during intercourse she said: “I feel you in my stomach” which was the closest I cam to impregnating her, is that after intercourse I could not pee straight. It bent my hard on.
So teaching boys to be romantic and not like some dog humping another dog and donkeys too. Open up a woman with romance and passion and love and dudes, you will get the most out of your women.
You know, the folks that insisted I stay with in India in 1981 had one common expression about their wives and mother of their children, the men said: The wife is the goddess of the home.
That struck me and hopefully we can evolve socially by teaching these “secrets” to boys to have them grow up and appreciate girls to women.
If you go to Galveston & visit the historic port museum it shows how carefully each person was vetted prior to being allowed to enter the United States. 🇺🇸 This vetting was after men, women & children had harrowing trips on ships to get here. They had to be healthy (without any disease or illness) and stated reason for coming as well as how they could contribute and not live off of others.
The screening makes total sense!
Common sense has been thrown out due to Saul Alinsky tactics being pushed through academia.
Basically brainwashing our youth.
Thanks to Obama pushing Muslims into our country but blocking Christians.
The damage must be reversed but this will not be easy.
Starting by standing up as you have Naomi and shining the light on this crazy blind upside down thinking and sharing your clarity of thought makes you a hero.
I love you Naomi!
As a lover of women and of the gateway — the vulva — this is horrid. However, we consistently ignore the genital mutilation of men that has gone on uninterrupted in the United States for many generations. And both women and gay men can chirp about whether they prefer “cut” or “uncut” but the reality is that the make foreskin is the equivalent of the clitoris. According to Joseph Kramer, the foreskin spiritually maps to the heart. In terms of brain anatomy, the foreskin maps to pleasure receptors that were not designed for pain. In terms of familial bonds, this is about destroying trust.
The tip of the boy’s penis is amputated without anesthesia and without comforting, and it’s brutally painful — and then for the rest of his life, an attribute of his body is missing. This separates him from his mother, who was supposed to protect him from this kind of assault at three days old; it affects his sexual feelings and abilities; it makes him accustomed to agonizing pain on an organ designed to give and receive bliss; and nobody cares. We have never reckoned the cost, in terms of making men ready for being the recipient of sexual violence. Nobody who claims that men are all potential perpetrators accounts for the role of male genital mutilation in their perception.
If the mother wants this done to the boy, none dare call it sexual violence by women. None dare say that the procedure IS MEDICALLY USELESS and done for profit only(and paid for by insurance) — “curing” nonexistent problems. If we’re going to address genital mutilation of girls and young women for girls, let’s address it for all people. The hypocrisy is too much to stand. Circumcision must be BANNED or completely eschewed as barbaric like the prefrontal lobotomy. In sexual terms, it is the same thing.
Very well said!
(Could do with a copy-edit though, especially for comma placement. It would speed comprehension. R. L. Trask’s ‘The Penguin Guide to Punctuation’ is excellent on that score.)
This article is both informative and inspiring. Could you expand on this in the future? Your writing style kept me engaged.