Meet the heroes passed over for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

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President Obama says he will donate the $ 1.4 million that comes with the Nobel Peace Prize to charity. As usual he’s being vague about the details, so I have a suggestion for him. How about the Shuhada Organization which was founded by Dr Sima Samar, MD, one of the also-rans for this year’s prize.

The Shuhada organization runs hospitals, schools and health clinics for girls and women all over Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Dr Samar literally risked her life many times to get this thing, now in it’s 20th year, off the ground. Dr. Samar has a hell of a resume. If I’d been reviewing it as a member of the selection committee it would have knocked my socks off. Then again, I’m not a dweeby Scandinavian former Socialist party intellectual who doesn’t get out much and thus thinks it’s a miracle sent by God if a black man talks in complete paragraphs and graduates from Harvard Law School.

"This is what a hero looks like."

Another quiet hero is Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynaecologist who, according to his Wikipedia entry, works in the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by Congolese militia:

Mukwege has probably become the world’s leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape. He has treated 21,000 women during the Congo’s 12-year war, some of them more than once, performing up to 10 surgeries a day during his 18-hour working days.

"This is what a hero looks like."

Still, in a way, by ignoring these heroes, the committee may have been on to something. The sad fact is that crusading for womens’ rights in places like Pakistan and the Congo does not bring peace. If you subscribe to the theory that much of the roiling of the Islamic world, the launching of suicide bombers etc. is a reaction by panicked male supremacists to the creeping modernization of women, then “empowering women” with birth control and the like actually, in the short term, encourages war.

Obama and paternalistic union connection brings peace?

So I’m trying very hard to credit the committee with thinking this nuanced. But I keep going back to the thought that patronising attitudes towards the first black president had a lot more to do with it.

read more here and see comments - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/stephaniegutmann/100013266/meet-the-heroes-passed-over-for-the-2009-nobel-peace-prize/#

Comment of interest -

Donate the money to charity?

Like typical lefties who promotes redistribution of wealth, when it comes to their own, the Obamas are incredibly stingy.

From 2000-2004, the Obamas never gave more than $3500 to charities, about 1% of their annual earnings. Then in 2005, after buying a $1.65 million dollar home, they managed just 4.7% and in 2006, just 6.1%.

Like so many wealthy leftists, they want to tax, tax, tax those who make much less so they can give it to others while they’re stingy with their own money.

It’s sickening that this creep got the NPP when others were actually deserving.
 
Maddie on Oct 13th, 2009 at 8:10 am