Monday, September 3, 2018

COLLEGE SUPPRESSES STUDY WHEN 1 GROUP GOES 'NUTS' 'Unreasonable demands of a tiny minority above the potential well-being of children'

COLLEGE SUPPRESSES STUDY WHEN 1 GROUP GOES 'NUTS'

'Unreasonable demands of a tiny minority above the potential well-being of children'

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An explosive new Ivy League university study is being suppressed because it concludes that today’s exceptionally rapid growth in cases of transgenderism among children and teens is very likely a result of “social contagion.”

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The Brown University study is titled “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports.”

An in-depth report by the Federalist summarizes the study’s conclusion, saying “‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ among teens and young adults may be a social contagion linked with having friends who identify as LGBT, an identity politics peer culture, and an increase in internet use.”

However, the Federalist added, “The study was quickly yanked from Brown’s news releases after a transgender activist feeding frenzy, and the journal it was published in is reconsidering the publication.”

The study looked at gender referrals in the United Kingdom, anecdotal and news reports, and the “rapid recent growth in transgender treatment centers,” circumstances that are all present in the U.S. as well, the report said.

Supporting the study by Brown University social science professor Dr. Lisa Littman is an online petition led by parents and researchers, stating: “[T]he parental reports in this study offer important and much-needed preliminary information about a cohort of adolescents, mostly girls, who with no prior history of dysphoria, are requesting irreversible medical interventions, including the potential to impair fertility and future sexual function.”

The petition adds: “In any other group of children, these grave consequences would be seen as human rights violations unless there was significant and overwhelming evidence these procedures would be beneficial long-term.”

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And yet, Brown University, under pressure by LGBT activists, has essentially apologized for releasing the study, stating: “Brown community members express[ed] concerns that the conclusions of the study could be used to discredit efforts to support transgender youth and invalidate the perspectives of members of the transgender community.”

Bess Marcus of Brown’s school of public health, tried to explain the University recalling its own study, saying, “The spirit of free inquiry and scholarly debate is central to academic excellence. At the same time, we believe firmly that it is also incumbent on public health researchers to listen to multiple perspectives and to recognize and articulate the limitations of their work.”

The Federalist translates: “The reason trans activists went nuts is that the study reinforces what plenty of parents, public health experts, and doctors have been saying: Transgenderism looks a lot like a dangerous fad. It’s telling that their response was to demand suppressing the results. It’s also telling that Brown chose to prioritize the unreasonable demands of a tiny minority above the potential well-being of children and the process of scientific inquiry.”

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Littman conducted the original work after her interest was sparked by parents describing clusters of gender dysphoria outbreaks among friend groups.

She recruited several hundred children ages 11 to 27 who filled out a 90-question survey that took about 30-60 minutes to complete.

“Littman found a number of things that make transgender narratives look terrible. For example, she explored the horrifyingly irresponsible lies anonymous internet users frequently offer to confused kids who were apparently free to browse for this information online,” the Federalist reported.

Bottom line: Nearly 90 percent of those young people who “became gender dysphoric” did so after some of their friends did.

“This makes it obvious why transgender activists do not want this information public,” the report noted. “It suggests many gender dysphoric young people hit a rough patch in life (or several), have poor or immature coping skills, and got the message from peers, online, or both that transgenderism was a handy, simple explanation for their feelings that also offered instant social acceptance and attention.”

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Linda Sarsour with Mehdi Hasan, Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abdul Elsayed and Shaun King at the ISNA convention. Twitter photo.

In a year in which Muslim political candidates are breaking new ground or falling just short, it's not surprising to see politics dominate the country's largest annual gathering of Muslim Americans.
But the political sessions at the annual Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in Houston were far from celebrations. Rather, they cast a dire picture for Muslims of life in America.
Speakers cast "Islamophobia" as a dire threat lurking just outside their doors. And while a travel ban upheld by U.S. courts targets people from five Muslim-majority countries among dozens, the policy was repeatedly described as a "Muslim ban" in full effect.
Leading the charge was Linda Sarsour, a co-chair of the national Women's March and founder of a political activist group called MPower Change. Sarsour spoke to at least four separate sessions during the weekend, with ISNA President Azhar Azeez introducing her as "the most famous, known activist in America today."
Her tone often was not aimed at inspiring Muslims to be more politically active as much as it was to shame them for not doing so. If they aren't sufficiently engaged in advocating for the Palestinian cause, she said, "you as as an American Muslim are complicit in the occupation of Palestinians, in the murder of Palestinian protesters. So when we start debating in the Muslim community about Palestine, it tells me a lot about you and about the type of faith that you have in your heart."

Worse still, "if you're on the side of the oppressor, or you're defending the oppressor or you're actually trying to humanize the oppressor," she said, "then that's a problem sisters and brothers and we got to be able to say: that is not the position of the Muslim American community."
That seems like a slap at Muslim activists who have engaged in dialogue with Zionists and even traveled to Israel under a program financed by the Shalom Hartman Institute. Wajahat Ali, for example, was disinvited from speaking at this weekend's convention for failing to make the Palestinian cause his paramount issue as a Muslim.
Muslims who failed to get politically active in 2016 are responsible in part for Donald Trump's election, she argued. "In fact, when you are silent, you are the one that's not a patriot and you are the one that's not a true American and not proud to be an American."
If people are too afraid to get involved, that just means their religious faith is lacking.
"When I stand up here and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot. And those of you who have fear in your hearts and don't have the courage to stand up for your deen (religion), for your communities, for your religious institutions, for your children, that is not just a question of your patriotism. It is a question of your iman (faith)."
Muslim Americans remain tremendously misunderstood, said Dalia Mogahed, a pollster and research director at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
"Muslims are more likely than any other faith community in America to reject" attacks on civilians, she told an audience during a session on "Islamophobia."
She cited a Pew poll which "found that Muslims were more likely to say such actions – which means, referring to violence against civilians – can never be justified. Seventy-five percent of Muslims saying this versus 59 percent of the general public."
Given that data, it's all the more frustrating that national Islamist groups like ISNA, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) are unwilling to condemn by name Palestinian terrorist groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They also have defended and honored political leaders and financiers who supported the terrorist groups.
"Islamophobia" will be difficult to defeat, said author Khaled Beydoun, because it is inextricably linked to white supremacy. He dates its origins to the Naturalization Act of 1790, which restricted citizenship only to white people. Islam, he said, still is seen "as a rival civilization that could not be melded with whiteness." It's an attitude that cuts across the political spectrum.

"Let's put a name, and let's put a face on who liberal Islamophobes are," Beydoun said. "It's really important to intersect race and intersect white supremacy with liberal Islamophobia. The real Islamophobes on the Left are largely white Islamophobes. Right? So this is driven by a specific notion that Islam and Muslims are, again, people that can't be assimilated with the United States. But not only the United States. So, like, white liberal, white supremacy, Islamophobic, whatever you want to call it, is a global phenomenon that has also driven the headscarf ban of 2004. Right, if you look at the parliamentary debates in France before the headscarf ban was passed, it was largely white parliamentarians who voted by an 85 percent clip, that Muslim men were subordinating, forcing their sisters, forcing their mothers to wear the hijab and the niqab. And it's driven by racism!"
Concern about honor crimes – violence against family members, usually women and girls for dishonoring the family by dressing immodestly, dating non-Muslims – is an example of liberal Islamophobia, Mogahed said. She singled out a provision in the original travel ban that called for the tracking of honor violence. But she seemed to deny the problem even exists, and said the policy simply aims to make Muslims look bad.

The convention also attracted a group of ex-Muslims who invited the ISNA convention attendees to talk with them.
"Disagreement is not hate," a statement from Ex-Muslims of North America said. But if Muslims are worried about Islamophobia, they should consider the challenges involved for those who leave the faith.
"Threats are routine. Emotional and even physical abuse is far too common," the statement said. "Some of us are forced out of the family home, some divorced by their spouses, and others forced to go 'back home' in countries with fewer rights and liberties. Some superstitious believers will claim we have been 'possessed by jinn' [spirits], and attempt violent exorcisms. In the most conservative households, ex-Muslims fear for their lives."
The group reported mostly friendly interaction with ISNA convention attendees. But several people wearing T-shirts saying "~~God~~ Love is Greatest," were kicked out of a Starbucks inside a Hilton hotel near the convention site by hotel security.
"This appears to be a case of discrimination," Ex-Muslims of North America President Muhammad Syed said in a statement. "We were asked to leave the premises and informed that we could only enter the premises if we removed the shirts, none of which stated anything inflammatory. The treatment was unjust and especially cruel considering the plight of ex-Muslims. We are killed and abused all over the world for our disbelief. It is unconscionable that companies like Starbucks and Hilton acquiesce to conservative religious sensibilities."

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In this mailing: Denis MacEoin: Britain's Burka Blues: "I'd Like to Thank Boris Johnson" Lawrence A. Franklin: Turkey Creating New Tensions with Greece and the US

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Denis MacEoin: Britain's Burka Blues: "I'd Like to Thank Boris Johnson"
Lawrence A. Franklin: Turkey Creating New Tensions with Greece and the US

Britain's Burka Blues: "I'd Like to Thank Boris Johnson"

by Denis MacEoin • September 3, 2018 at 5:00 am

"As a Muslim woman, I'd like to thank Boris Johnson for calling out the niqab" — Title of an article by Dr. Qanta Ahmed in The Spectator.
"[T]his is a point that we Muslims seem to be unable to get across to non-Muslims – there is no basis in Islam for the niqab.... That's why Muslim nations are themselves regulating and banning the niqab and burqa..." — Dr. Qanta Ahmed, The Conversation, January 2017.
Some observers feel that it is especially painful to see Western feminists marching and wearing black face masks in order to protect Muslim women's right to wear them, but failing to support the rights of other Muslim women who plead not to be forced into them.
We are expected to feel guilty if we dare to question what some Muslim women themselves question: if shariah law is really the most wholesome lifestyle for many women.

To many, female Islamic clothing, from hijabs to niqabs and burqas, represents the powerful oppression of women's rights. They look as if they could be symbols of the undue pressures on women to conform to a patriarchal, deeply misogynistic code and the punishments that can be and often are inflicted on women for even a slight avoidance of the rules. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

On August 5, Britain's former Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, published an article in The Daily Telegraph. Entitled "Denmark has got it wrong. Yes, the burka is oppressive and ridiculous – but that's still no reason to ban it", the article created a furore both within and outside his own Tory party, and for more than one reason.

Johnson is currently the strongest candidate to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister, given her increasing weakness as a leader, largely due to the problems surrounding Brexit and her inability to create a suitable deal for it. This is relevant to the furore. Johnson is an ambitious politician who is given to making controversial comments.

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Turkey Creating New Tensions with Greece and the US

by Lawrence A. Franklin • September 3, 2018 at 4:00 am

Relations between Washington and Ankara have already deteriorated significantly under Erdogan -- as dramatically emphasized by America's absolutely correct refusal to turn over to Erdogan the man he says is behind Turkey's 2016 coup attempt, Fethullah Gülen, a Muslim cleric who exiled himself to Pennsylvania almost 20 years ago, as well as by the escalating imbroglio over detained U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson, who is apparently being held as a hostage to force the U.S. to extradite Gülen back to Turkey.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell recently called Greece, "an anchor of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Balkans."
Under President Trump, the signs keep growing that the U.S. is more and more likely to see things Greece's way.

During his state visit to Greece in 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a forceful request that Greece agree to re-negotiate the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. Pictured: Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on December 7, 2017. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's June 24 re-election seems to be leading to heightened tensions between Turkey and Greece. Furthermore, in an eventual confrontation between these two NATO member states, Turkey's reported interest in purchasing air-defense missiles and fighter jets from Russia, underscored by Turkey's continued detention of American Christian Pastor Andrew Brunson and the U.S. imposition of sanctions on Turkish officials (as well as Turkish counter-sanctions), may well cause Washington to favor Greece.

In addition, prior to June 24, the Turkish parliament, and the Turkish people by referendum, awarded the presidency with nearly authoritarian power. Erdogan may now use these powers to strengthen even further his control of Turkey's domestic political order --- and to become more aggressive internationally as a result.

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