At 12:45 30/07/2007 +0100, John Barker wrote:
>(a) What about the rights of women there, including divorce rights? 
>I am aware that many Muslim women across the Muslim world have been 
>campaigning to advance womens rights, but the success has been limited.

Note that most Muslim practices which feminists claim oppress women 
do nothing of the sort and are actually designed to restrict the 
access of men to sex.

>Point 3.  While Sewell in his e-mail of 13/6/07 21:18 is clearly 
>wrong when he states
>PC is a form of fascism since PC is definitely not  "nationalistic 
>right-wing" ! - he is I think correct in his more fundamental 
>assertion in the same paragraph that Political Correctness is a great evil:
>
>"Political correctness (PC) is the third great evil arising from 
>Western civilization in the last century" (the others being Marxism 
>and Fascism (actually, I know very little about Marxism although I 
>understand that its original form became modified in Russia; and so 
>I have no opinion on whether or not the original version could be 
>described as evil).

Marxism: production is owned and controlled by the state
Fascism: the transactions that surround production are owned and 
controlled by the state
Fascism is a derivative of Marxism.

Political correctness is totalitarian.  Given that fascism and 
Marxism are similar and the term "fascism" carries the appropriate 
negative connotations, to generically denote all state 
totalitarianism as "fascism" seems most fitting.

Martin 

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