After exposing sexual assault in the United States military at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the team behind The Invisible War is back at the festival again, but this time they’re exposing the rape crimes that are being covered up and overlooked on college campuses across the United States. The Hunting Ground is directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering and reveals “an endemic system of institutional cover-ups, rationalizations, victim-blaming, and denial that creates perfect storm conditions for predators to prey with impunity.” It’s premiering at Sundance this month, and the first provocative trailer has just arrived. Watch!Here’s the trailer for Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering’s The Hunting Ground from Radius-TWC:
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OP seems to love to trash liberals. Without realizing that is is the liberals who stand firm against all types of abuse - sexual, racial, religious.
It is the liberals who have ensured women, gays, Transgenders, religious, racial minorities have equal rights.
Just as bad conduct by Muslims should not be blamed on Islam (am sure OP is on board with that), so too bad conduct in the form of rape and the negligence of the authorities in this instance should not be blamed on liberals.
For when you are a minority, it is the liberals who will stand up for you. No matter the country.
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So if the original post was actually for a madersa you would have mentioned universities or colleges like this to balance thing out?
Most probably not, so why now. That is the only reason i shared this.
Point is liberals try to be choosy who to support.
I agree with the bolded part but it is difficult for liberals to understand that all madressa should not be closed just becuase of a single lone incident in a madressa. Problems are not with religion they are with the society and every one including religious clergy are part of it.
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Liberals don’t care if Madressas are open or closed. They are not consumed by such thought. If you go to Fox News you may come across such sentiments. If you go to dailykos.com - a liberal site - they are too busy to be promoting equality.
So you need to get your definition of liberals straight
The irony is the Sundance Festival is seat of liberalism. And those unearth rape in military or on college campuses are liberals.
Open your mind to the fact that liberals are not on the other side. Unless you are against freedom of expression, religions and other good things.
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Today on TV there was a conservative Brett Stephens. And a liberal Howard Dean.
Howard Dean made it a point to say that ISIS are thugs. And don’t represent the billion people belonging to Islamic faith. He said - these thugs want to be called Islamist so they can appeal to the masses.
The conservative Brett Stephens said what most conservatives say - that ISIS should be called Islamist. Since they are associated with Islam.
Dean shot back - they are as much Islamic as abortion clinic bombers are christian.
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I am confused… is the argument like this : “when you talk about sexual exploitation of young Muslim kids in madrassas in Pakistan and other Islamic countries, you should balance it out by talking about sexual exploitation of non-Muslim, non-Pakistani boys and girls in colleges in USA”?
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Quite absurd that on the flip side one did mentioned madressa to balance things out and you did not noticed that.
See my original post , all i am saying is should we ask for closing university like we demand for madressa? no? why then people ask for madressas to be closed after a lone similar event?
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Madressas should not be closed, but we’ll regulated. The “teachers” involved in such heinous crimes should be punished severely and not allowed near children any more. I grew up in Pakistan and know quite well that the abuse is rampant.
Madrassas that teach hate and crime should be closed down though. it seems most of the time is spent on teaching how the followers of “other” maslak are mushriq and kafir. these madrassas are producing mindless maniacs.
why should I be so bothered about what’s going on in universities in USA that I start demanding closing down their colleges is beyond me though. they are neither in my country and nor purporting to represent my religion. I would be concerned with madrassas in Pakistan naturally.
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in other words, stop worrying about cancer untill you have sorted out skin rash.
schools teaching religion and Islam should be held at a little higher level of ethical responsibly than schools teaching mushriq aloom like biology, no?
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Peace kakaballi which of the two school types will produce people who are more influential on society?
In Pakistan the madressas will produce some big clerics, and the other schools will produce influential leaders, politicians and CEO’s of corps … So I would argue both are equally important.
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positive or negative influence? [emoji1]
seriously, you need both. those teaching religion should be held to a higher standard of ethics though. this is their job to impart ethical conduct as education.
if you are talking about strength of a society, then of course you need scientists, strategists and managers.
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oh bhai it was you who used madaris in the title to bring attention to your thread. I know people who are living in UAE but do not send their kids to madrasahs due to rumours of sexual exploits there. Situation in Pakistan is not that rosy either. So now we will justify one wrong with another.
