BREAKING : Over 50 Groups in the #WomensMarch are Funded by George Soros
Breaking News
January 22, 2017
Well, given the fact that some of the marchers apparently don’t even know men are not given razors free by the government, I would not bet on it.
Soros has funded, or has close
relationships with, at least 56 of the march’s “partners,” including
“key partners” Planned Parenthood, which opposes Trump’s anti-abortion
policy, and the National Resource Defense Council, which opposes Trump’s
environmental policies. The other Soros ties with “Women’s March”
organizations include the partisan MoveOn.org (which was fiercely
pro-Clinton), the National Action Network (which has a former executive
director lauded by Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett as “a leader of
tomorrow” as a march co-chair and another official as “the head of
logistics”). Other Soros grantees who are “partners” in the march are
the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights,
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. March organizers and the
organizations identified here haven’t yet returned queries for
comment.
On the issues I care about as a Muslim,
the “Women’s March,” unfortunately, has taken a stand on the side of
partisan politics that has obfuscated the issues of Islamic extremism
over the eight years of the Obama administration. “Women’s March”
partners include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has
not only deflected on issues of Islamic extremism post-9/11, but opposes
Muslim reforms that would allow women to be prayer leaders and pray in
the front of mosques, without wearing headscarves as symbols of
chastity. Partners also include the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC),
which wrongly designated Maajid Nawaz, a Muslim reformer, an “anti-Muslim extremist” in
a biased report released before the election. The SPLC confirmed to me
that Soros funded its “anti-Muslim extremists” report targeting Nawaz.
(Ironically, CAIR also opposes abortions, but its leader still has a key speaking role.)
Another Soros grantee and march “partner”
is the Arab-American Association of New York, whose executive director,
Linda Sarsour, is a march co-chair. When I co-wrote a piece, arguing
that Muslim women don’t have to wear headscarves as a symbol of
“modesty,” she attacked the coauthor and me as “fringe.”
Earlier, at least 33 of the 100 “women of
color,” who initially protested the Trump election in street protests,
worked at organizations that receive Soros funding, in part for
“black-brown” activism. Of course, Soros is an “ideological
philanthropist,” whose interests align with many of these groups, but he
is also a significant political donor. In Davos, he told reporters that
Trump is a “would-be dictator.”
A spokeswoman for Soros’s Open Society
Foundations, said in a statement, “There have been many false reports
about George Soros and the Open Society Foundations funding protests in
the wake of the U.S. presidential elections. There is no truth to these
reports.” She added, “We support a wide range of organizations — including those
that support women and minorities who have historically been denied
equal rights. Many of whom are concerned about what policy changes may
lie ahead. We are proud of their work. We of course support the right of
all Americans to peaceably assemble and petition their government—a
vital, and constitutionally safeguarded, pillar of a functioning
democracy.”
Much like post-election protests, which
included a sign, “Kill Trump,” were not “spontaneous,” as reported by
some media outlets, the “Women’s March” is an extension of strategic
identity politics that has so fractured America today, from campuses to
communities. On the left or the right, it’s wrong. But, with the
inauguration, we know the politics. With the march, “women” have been
appropriated for a clearly anti-Trump day. When I shared my thoughts
with her, my yoga studio owner said it was “sad” the march’s organizers
masked their politics. “I want love for everyone,” she said.
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