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In Love with Sunera Thobani

FrontPageMagazine.com | October 10, 2001  

I�M IN LOVE.  

Her name is Sunera Thobani. She is a women�s studies professor at the
University of British Columbia and a former president of the National
Action Committee on the Status of Women.  

I have never met her, but this leading voice of feminism in Canada
gave a speech on October 1 that inspired me in ways that no speech
ever has.  

In front of 500 hysterical cheering women at the conference titled
Women's Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization, Thobani had
the tact to honor the American victims of the recent Islamic terror by
announcing that the United States was "the most dangerous and powerful
global force unleashing horrific levels of violence." Only a fool, she
warned, would be unable to recognize that U.S. imperialism and
aggression had caused the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Frothing at the
mouth, she explained that, "From Chile to El Salvador to Nicaragua to
Iraq, the path of U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood."  

I really regret I wasn�t at this conference. I love being in places
like that. It attracts my favorite kind of people, and especially my
favorite kind of women -- you know, the bubbly and cheerful types who
like to celebrate romantic love -- and all the other beautiful
ingredients of the human condition.  

But I missed it. I guess I�m down on my luck. Surely it doesn�t get
any better than to be in the company of women like Sunera Thobani.
Forget Jennifer Lopez.  

Make no mistake about it: Thobani knows what she is talking about, and
she knows the most appropriate moment in which to say it. Keep in
mind: Thobani is, as one of the conference organizers characterized
her, a "popular speaker" who is "an important intellectual voice in
the country."  

Being familiar with Canadian political culture, I consider this
characterization to be an understatement. I strongly believe that
Thobani is the intellectual voice in the country.  

Thobani really proved her intellectual stripes in her speech when she
announced that, while she felt the pain of the victims of the Sept. 11
attacks, she was more concerned with who was feeling the pain of "the
victims of U.S. aggression." "U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood,"
she explained, adding that "other countries of the West -- including,
shamefully, Canada -- cannot line up fast enough behind it."  

Canadians, fortunately, are still not as bad as Americans. That�s
because, according to Thobani, it is the Americans who are
"bloodthirsty, vengeful and calling for blood. They don't care whose
blood it is, they want blood. And that has to be confronted."  

The most moving part of all of this riveting drama is that Thobani was
repeatedly interrupted by cheers and standing ovations from the crowd.
Even Hedy Fry, the federal Secretary of State for the Status of Women,
and Landon Pearson, a Liberal Senator, sat on the podium with Thobani
and didn�t raise one objection about the speech when it ended.  

In the context of all the victims of September 11 and their grieving
families, Thobani is obviously the woman of the year.  

I�m in love.  

What I really admire about this woman is how she articulates her
anti-American themes at a conference that is intended to deal
exclusively with the subject of violence against women. The way her
female intuitiveness picks up on relevancy is extremely impressive.  

I am, of course, a little confused. I can�t help wondering why Thobani
wants to live under the umbrella of the bloodthirsty American fascist
regime. Surely she would be much happier � and safer -- under the
Taliban in Afghanistan. This breaks my heart, because I am sure she
wants to escape the prison of American-led Western culture and flee to
live under the Taliban. She must be strapped for cash.  

Thus, I have decided to start a collection for Thobani, so she can go
live in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. That way, she can be far away from
any culture that is influenced by the empire "soaked in blood."  

Meanwhile, I am so proud of my country. After all, this latest
production is brought to us by the Canadian government, which
contributed $80,000 to the three-day conference at which Thobani
bestowed us with her benevolent wisdom. Surely this is what Canadian
tax dollars must be spent on.  

There�s nothing more important than funding a woman who confuses her
own personal rage with her hatred of the society that gives her
freedom -- and tremendous material and cultural rewards.  

I�m in love.  


Jamie Glazov holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Soviet
Studies. He is the author of 15 Tips on How to be a Good Leftist.. His
father, Yuri Glazov, was a Soviet dissident during the Brezhnev era,
who signed the Letter of Twelve, denouncing Soviet human rights
abuses. His mother, Marina Glazov, also participated in the dissident
movement in the Soviet Union, actively typing and circulating Samizdat
- the underground political literature. To avoid imprisonment, Yuri
Glazov took his family out of the USSR in 1972 and settled in Canada
in 1975, when Jamie was 9. Today Jamie battles socialism from his
high-tech warroom in Toronto. He writes the Dr. Progressive advice
column for angst-ridden leftists at EnterStageRight.com. E-mail him at
jglazov@home.com.