Today at Ms. | September 23, 2021
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“Women’s Rights Are Not Just ‘Western Values'”: A Warning Not to Learn the Wrong Lessons From Afghanistan [[link removed]]
BY DR. SIMA SAMAR | In the wake of the fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban, many in the international community and media have said that efforts in Afghanistan to secure women’s rights and human rights were doomed to fail because of the traditions and culture in my country. This is absolutely the wrong lesson to take away from our experience in Afghanistan. Human rights and women’s rights are not “Western values.”
They do not belong to the West. They are universal values. As laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights are universal for everyone, everywhere, regardless of nationality, race, gender, religion, locale or political system.
Understanding Christian Nationalism: Is the Constitution in Trouble? [[link removed]]
BY DIANNE POST and ROBERT J. MCWHIRTER | The January 6 insurrection showed that forces in America are willing to shatter the Constitution. In order to understand why the insurrection happened, we need to know the history of Christian nationalists in America.
Camille Griffin’s Apocalyptic, Existential “Silent Night” Challenges Conventions of the Feel-Good Holiday Movie [[link removed]]
BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN | Perhaps it should come as no surprise that out of the 18 months of social unrest, anxiety over climate change, and a global health crisis, would emerge a Christmas film as existentially harrowing as Silent Night. No matter that writer-director Camille Griffin conceived of the premise and wrote the script before the onset of the pandemic. Clearly the cards were already on the table about the direction humankind was headed: nowhere good.
A rare apocalyptic holiday movie, Silent Night is a philosophical and spirited dark comedy that manages to be equal parts charming and horrifying, but without the gruesome visuals that typify the horror genre. Instead, the film’s insidious aura of dread hovers just under the surface as the characters attempt to revel in a night of friendship, family, joy and love—all under the specter of certain death.
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