Word: backwardness
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...quotation also describes the hostility Ford's bid to lead House Democrats provoked from backward-looking members of the older generation of black activists and politicians, including some of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. The sheer meanness - and downright stupidity - of the vituperation is an indication of the intellectual bankruptcy of what currently passes for black leadership. Ford is too shrewd to talk openly about the insults himself, but they obviously stung him. Not content to criticize Ford on the legitimate grounds of his callowness and lack of legislative accomplishments, some dredged up his "high yellow" skin color...
...Lee’s example of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is waging a public battle against what he calls “a culture of forced marriages and sexual abuse in the Netherlands’ Muslim immigrant population…practices she unapologetically label[s] ‘backward.’” This sentence is erroneous in two ways; first, it refers to Islam as a culture. In reality, however, Islam is a religion composed of peoples from a rainbow of cultures and nationalities. To group religion and culture together is to refuse to acknowledge that many...
Providence managed one dangerous deflection in the first 15 seconds but never threatened again. An errant backward pass that deflected all the way to the other end of the ice killed much of the clock...
...caliphate can only be implemented if people want it." Assem believes Europeans will join the caliphate, but only once they see its advantages. And he admits that day is a long way off. - By STEVE ZWICK/Duisberg THE CRITIC Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 33, the Netherlands Islam is "an extremely backward religion," according to an important new voice on the Dutch political scene. These words clearly echo those of slain right-wing leader Pim Fortuyn, who also used the word backward in reference to Islam. But the speaker today is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee and former Muslim...
...death threats convinced her to flee the country, she made her name documenting a culture of forced marriages and sexual abuse in the Netherlands’ Muslim immigrant population and railing against the orthodoxy of multiculturalism that refused to pass judgment on practices she unapologetically labeled “backward.” Alis is not affiliated with a right-wing party and the Dutch are famously tolerant people who put up with everything. Neither Alis nor her country fit the usual profile of claustrophobic bigots. The better-known politician Pim Fortuyn built an entire movement out of assaulting...