President of the Center for the Advancement of (Non-Iranian) Women is Silent on their Suffering under Ahmadinejad
Where is the righteous indignation we might expect to hear from (Alice) Faye Wattleton, co-founder and president of the Center for the Advancement of Women?
Why hasn't Ms. Wattleton -- an outspoken advocate for women -- said diddlysquat about the fact Columbia University, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees, permitted one of the world's greatest oppressors of women to come to its campus and speak his vile message to the world?
Why wasn't Ms. Wattleton in front of Columbia's Lerner Hall on September 24, 2007, trying to block Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from making his infamous speech? She might have rallied women's rights advocates from around the nation to join her outside the hall in protest.
But no. Ms. Wattleton, like other members of the Board of Trustees, spoke the loudest via her silence. Dead, ghastly silence.
We don't toss around the word hypocrite lightly. But we do think the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation and its longest tenured leader in history should be embarrassed to call herself a women's advocate. What? Iranian women don't count?
The fact that women in Iran are third-class citizens, who are routinely stoned on charges of adultery (whether or not true) and forced to shroud themselves not only in burkas but in academic and political darkness seems not to faze Ms. Wattleton.
To read her official Columbia University biography is to see just how gloriously the rest of the world regards her, including the bestowers of 14 honorary degrees. But we note that none of those honors came from the University of Tehran nor the Planned Parenthood chapter in Esfahan.
So go forth Ms. Wattleton and collect your honorary degrees and inclusions on the "Best" and "Top 100" list. The more of them you receive the more vacuous is the space reserved in your soul for common decency. Some day the girls and young women you seek to inspire and support will grow to hate you for you duplicity. Can you blame them?
Why hasn't Ms. Wattleton -- an outspoken advocate for women -- said diddlysquat about the fact Columbia University, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees, permitted one of the world's greatest oppressors of women to come to its campus and speak his vile message to the world?
Why wasn't Ms. Wattleton in front of Columbia's Lerner Hall on September 24, 2007, trying to block Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from making his infamous speech? She might have rallied women's rights advocates from around the nation to join her outside the hall in protest.
But no. Ms. Wattleton, like other members of the Board of Trustees, spoke the loudest via her silence. Dead, ghastly silence.
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| CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY |
| Grainy still shot taken from a video of a woman being stoned to death for alleged crimes against chastity. These day, the Iranians, in a bow to world opinion, are more likely to just hang women offenders, preserving their stones for Zionist offenders. |
We don't toss around the word hypocrite lightly. But we do think the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation and its longest tenured leader in history should be embarrassed to call herself a women's advocate. What? Iranian women don't count?
The fact that women in Iran are third-class citizens, who are routinely stoned on charges of adultery (whether or not true) and forced to shroud themselves not only in burkas but in academic and political darkness seems not to faze Ms. Wattleton.
To read her official Columbia University biography is to see just how gloriously the rest of the world regards her, including the bestowers of 14 honorary degrees. But we note that none of those honors came from the University of Tehran nor the Planned Parenthood chapter in Esfahan.
So go forth Ms. Wattleton and collect your honorary degrees and inclusions on the "Best" and "Top 100" list. The more of them you receive the more vacuous is the space reserved in your soul for common decency. Some day the girls and young women you seek to inspire and support will grow to hate you for you duplicity. Can you blame them?
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