A message for Mothers' Day

[bohemiancoast]

Eventually, South Africa's apartheid system grew too much for the 'civilised' world to tolerate, and the country was collectively shunned until they sorted it out

Comments

[supergee]

Excellent! Blogging it.

[alexmc]

Even if you had a car you wont be able to shun their oil because I don't believe you know the source of the petrol at the pumps. There is no guarantee, for instance, that Q8 petrol stations serve Kuwait oil.

I don't know that financial sanctions against Saudi Arabia will work, but making their society more visible to the outside world is a good start.

[filkerdave]

In fact, given the fungibility of crude and the mixing that goes on, it's entirely likely that you've got Kuwaiti or Saudi oil in your tank.

I wish that weren't the case.

[necturus]

I believe Citgo is owned by the Venezuelan state oil company, so Citgo stations probably sell gasoline from Venezuela. But who knows?

[anef]

Yes.

[surliminal]

Ah did you wish the same BBC prog I did? It was kind of horrifying.

[bohemiancoast]

Nope, that would be television.

[0olong]

Or radio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00fvjdx

[von_krag]

The mixing of insane sharia legal theory into Western courts is a vector for repression. David Frum notes that the standard western feminist rhetoric still doesn't admit Islam treats women in a barbaric fashion. I don't expect this to change.

"standard western feminist rhetoric"

[apostle_of_eris]

I must have missed the memo on that. Do you have the RFC?

[bohemiancoast]

I have just read the link you quoted there, which is full of total tosh; hardly a correct word, let alone a correct sentence. It seems to be a variant of the Daily Mail 'Shock Horror Sharia Courts Operating in the UK' story.

I have no particular concern with Islam; I have many Muslim friends and I live opposite a mosque. People can choose their religion. I have a problem with a country whose civil law forbids women to work as cashiers.