Posted on 01/22/2018 2:29:34 AM PST by markomalley
The State Department announced a new $600,000 taxpayer-funded study that suggests "ideals of masculinity" in Kenya are contributing to terrorism.
The department's Bureau of Counterterrorism is seeking a nonprofit group to "explore gender identities of boys and men in Kenya." The grant proposal states that men being "tough, heterosexual, aggressive, unemotional, and achieving" can make them vulnerable to joining Islamic extremist groups.
"Gender is increasingly recognized as an essential aspect to understanding and countering violent extremism throughout the world," the State Department said. "To date, research and interventions on gender in Kenya have predominantly focused on the role of women and girls in violent extremism. However, men and boys are disproportionately recruited by and join terrorist groups and carry out terrorist operations. In Kenya, there currently exists no CVE [countering violent extremism] programming dedicated to the role of gender of boys and men and vulnerability to violent extremism."
To remedy this, the State Department will spend up to $592,500 on the "Masculinity and Violent Extremism" study, which will be awarded to an American nonprofit or nongovernmental organization later this year.
The study will "determine existing knowledge and gaps on male gender and violent extremism as well as explore gender identities of boys and men in Kenya."
The grant proposal blames Kenya's "patriarchal" society of "tough, heterosexual" men for problems facing the developing country.
"In Kenya, boys and men are disproportionately recruited by al-Shabaab and more likely to be both operators and victims of terrorist acts," the State Department said. "Kenyan society, while diverse in its ethnic and cultural composition, is uniformly patriarchal and highly prescriptive of gender expressions and identities."
"Kenyan males are expected to head the household as well as provide for, protect, and maintain the family," the department continued. "Socially, males are expected to be tough, heterosexual, aggressive, unemotional, and achieving. The practical and social pressures to fulfill these expectations can be immense and create vulnerabilities that are exploited by violent extremist groups who appeal to these characteristics and offer the opportunity to fulfil [sic] these roles."
The State Department added that the research would involve fathers and community leaders in Kenya in the hopes to "shape existing cultural narratives on masculinity, gender, and violent extremism."
"Funds will support male-to-male dialogue and training on issues of gender and encourage stronger social and familial support structures," the department said.
This seems like something the president could put a stop to today,
CORRECTION!
$592,500 of OUR EARNINGS used.
Well, now you can’t say that obama doesn’t have a legacy.
This is how the left funds itself. I guarantee the grant recipient has been identified already.
Because that is critical.
Do we really need to know why they are tossing gay men off the tops of buildings in Muslim countries. Why not just ask them-—they are always happy to explain why they do what they do.
Adding a sarc tag is the surest way of killing sarcasm and any humor in a post. It was a good post though.. until I saw the /s tags :)
This study will no doubt be followed by the spending of even more of our tax dollars, and our children’s tax dollars, on “programs” to “educate” Kenyans to “help” them “fix” their “male-dominated” society. It will accomplish nothing apart from making it easier for our enemies, foreign and domestic, to further line their own pockets.
George Washington warned us against foreign entanglements. This type of crap is one of many reasons we should have heeded his advice.
The Stupid—it burns!!!
“Either Tillerson needs to get this kind of crap under control, or POTUS needs to replace him with somebody who can. “
There is no such thing as a clean bill. A senator says, “You want me to vote to fund your f@cking military, well, I get to add my transgender funding bill to the back. No transgender, no vote.” This is how we end up funding bridges to nowhere and a study on transgender spiders. Senators do this because they can.
If you think that is wasteful, read a military procurement contract. They are stuffed with expensive add-ons for people’s pet agendas. The FCS contract had clauses that not only forbade chromium and cadmium plating, but also forbade buying non-plated products from companies whose other lines included chromium and cadmium plating. What was the purpose of that? I’d say to punish companies who used chromium and cadmium. As a result of this not only did we have to use really expensive custom connectors made by people who normally didn’t make connectors, therefore made them badly, but we experienced corrosion failures right out of the box when the product was delivered.
Watching sausages get made would be much prettier than watching a bill get passed.
How about a study of two groups. Cut the nads off one group. Then see how many from each group join a terrorist organization. The results may reveal a simple solution to the terrorist recruitment problem.
Fags in govt funding their fag buddies in the private sector.
Who and/or what organizations made proposal and receives this lush boondoggle. Expose those who rip off the taxpayer.
Cancel that fund IMMEDIATELY and fire who ever proposed and/or voted for it.
“Somebody is getting a kickback somewhere with this crap.”
Ding! Ding! Ding! Some faithful progressive professor get a vacation to Africa.
Maybe they're trying to figure out how Hussein 0bama got to be such a 'girly man'.
And I had such high hopes for T Rex.
Of course, unlike Hillary, he has not ‘misplaced’ $6 billion.
All they need to know is Muslim.
They could’ve saved some money and just studied Barack instead...
Another wasteful “study!” I guess the value of this study will result in the castration of all American babies so that we will have a “kinder...gentler...sensitive” generation in the future. What other result can there be?
What idiocy. The perverts and perversion-lovers apparently still infect the often-useless state department.
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