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A popular doughnut shop in Portland, Maine, was forced to apologize to the community after it offended customers by working with the Salvation Army to provide Christmas to a needy family.

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The Holy Donut had asked customers to help them with a gift drive for a local family with five children. Those customers who participated received free doughnuts.

The Holy Donut should be commended for helping a family in need and spreading a bit of Christmas cheer.

The doughnut shop reached out to the Salvation Army to find the family in need,the Press-Herald reports.

Instead of saluting the doughnut shop for doing a good deed an online mob stormed their Facebook page. Many accused the Salvation Army of being anti-gay and discriminating against the LGBT community.

It was all untrue, of course but the truth doesnt really matter these days.

They proselytize to the people in their programs, they reject LGBT people from their shelters, one outraged customer wrote. They have tried to scrub their image, but still discriminate.

For the record, the Salvation Army is a well-respected Christian ministry that provides shelter for the homeless, addiction programs and of course the iconic red kettles at Christmas time.

Nevertheless, some freedom-loving, donut eaters defended the popular mom-and-pop establishment.

Going after a doughnut shop because they dont like their politics is exactly why people voted for Trump, one observer wrote online.

I dont care if someone is L, G, B or T, but when they stand in the way of people helping people simply because their own personal noses are out of joint, they lose my respect and any sympathy I have for their cause, wrote another.

But the Press Herald reports that the anti-doughnut mob was unrelenting going so far as to threaten boycotts unless the donut shop renounced its association with the Salvation Army.

In case you forgot, a solid 70 percent of your clientele is part of the LGBTQ community, one rabble-rouser wrote. Youre making a silent statement that youre completely fine with their choices.

Ah yes, nothing quite like an old-fashioned yuletide public shaming.

We do not support the Salvation Army or consider them our partner for this project, they simply linked us to a needy family, the store owners wrote on Facebook. We have nothing to gain here, we just wanted to help a family in need.

As unthinkable as it might be a good number of the pro-LGBT protesters were upset that the donut shop dared to help a family in need during the Christmas season.

To quell the growing controversy, The Holy Donut threw themselves at the mercy of the surging mob.

We take this opportunity to sincerely apologize to anyone that we have offended, the store owners wrote on Facebook. We are an organization which prides itself on our track record of kindness and acceptance of everyone.

The Holy Donut should be commended for helping a family in need and spreading a bit of Christmas cheer.

They should also be commended for make delicious doughnuts.(Ive been privileged to sample their Maple Bacon Maine Potato Donut).

And shame on all of you folks out there for harassing these good people and spreading out-right lies about the Salvation Army. Shame!

No doughnuts for you.

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The writer is a political economist.

PAKISTANS liberals ought to be utterly flattered now that a potential prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has suggested that they are the most dangerous constituency in the country, and that these liberals are so well organised and politically relevant, that they seek blood. These words must sound particularly reassuring to Pakistani liberals, each morning, as they read their English-language newspapers and the many articles and editorials which have been written about and after the Faizabad dharna.

Almost without exception, every newspaper has lamented the fact that Pakistan has lost its purpose and direction, that the non-state actors and right-wing Islamic parties have taken over both political and public spaces, and that the state of Pakistan has capitulated to the demands of such Islamists. Reading such editorials and articles, Pakistani liberals must breathe a huge sigh of relief, and offer thanks, for being recognised as such a powerful political and social entity, at a time when, one presumes, they were thoroughly heartbroken and despondent. Imran Khan has given them hope and much-needed reaffirmation.

The term liberal is much used in the public sphere, but is often misunderstood or misconstrued in its meaning and use. Liberal and liberalism have emerged from a political philosophy which dates back some centuries and encapsulates numerous meanings and connotations in what the terms mean. Liberals, to start out with, were against an absolutist state, against the monarchy, and one can in todays world assume that political liberals are also against the authoritarian government of the military.

Liberals also, on account of being against such absolutist oppression, believed in the will, or sovereignty, of the people, which made them at least democratic, or favouring the representation of the people through individuals who were usually elected. By this minimalist account, Imran Khan and his ally, the Jamaat-i-Islami as well as Maulana Samiul Haq, are also part of the liberal frame, even though they have supported military interventions and military dictators in the past. By this definition of the term, Gen Pervez Musharraf is anything but a liberal in the substantive sense, and is merely a lifestyle-liberal.

Imran Khan has given the liberals hope and much-needed reaffirmation.

It is here where things get complicated. Most people, even trained scholars, end up using the term liberal only in a lifestyle sense, where they think that someone who supported or promoted certain behaviours and lifestyle choices, often supposedly western, would be considered a liberal.

But such simplistic definitions often make matters worse, even when one examines something as straightforward as sartorial choices. For instance, if some women wear jeans or trousers, they would immediately be labelled as liberal, even though, as in many Muslim countries, women wear jeans often with a hijab indicating their religious inclination or cultural beliefs. Many Pakistani women, when they go abroad, do exactly the same. So, getting mixed signals jeans with a hijab makes the declaration of someones lifestyle being liberal quite meaningless. Other examples would only emphasise this point.

Being a liberal in a wider sense brings with it far greater attributes than what one wears or drinks. For example, there are clear demarcations of what a liberal, or increasingly neoliberal, economic policy is, compared to one which is conservative. All political parties, including Imran Khans as well as all Islamic parties, believe in free markets, privatisation, the World Banks good governance, less government involvement in the provision of public goods, all of which are attributes of a neoliberal economic order.

By these standards, Imran Khan and the Jamaat-i-Islami are also liberal, for they do not advocate closed borders, economic nationalism, state ownership of assets, or other indicators supposedly of an illiberal economic policy.

Imran Khan doesnt understand how bechara Pakistans liberals really are in todays world. They give a call on Facebook about some political cause such as about the disappeared, and perhaps five of them turn up at some press club to have their picture taken. They are not like the supporters of the Tehreek Labaik Ya Rasool Allah, who braved the rain and sat on the roads in Faizabad for three weeks, nor like the supporters of Imran Khan or Tahir ul Qadri who sang and danced at D-Chowk in Islamabad for four months.

Liberals would never have had the stamina, resources or commitment to last as long. At best, liberals can write op-eds, light candles for some deceased comrade killed by a militant, or now write blogs. Clearly, the political activities of Pakistans liberals, which are supposed to be so dangerous, are limited to Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media.

They barely have a real political presence, since there is very little differentiating between conservative and awami political parties. These parties have the same economic and social agenda and programme, their representatives bend over backwards trying to appease religious lobbies, they believe that the IMF can bail out Pakistan, and their whole faith rests in CPEC. Occasionally political parties and their representatives might take some positions which are termed liberal in a broad political sense, but these are increasingly infrequent.

Yet, one can understand why Imran Khan considers liberals to be dangerous. For one, they want society to be tolerant of differences, even religious belief, and they would want religious minorities to be equal citizens having equal rights. Some, sadly though not all, liberals might even want equal rights for women in society, while many others want peace in the region supporting better relations with India.

Liberals might even advocate for better and increased public services. But these are just well-meaning desires, and unless liberals represent themselves as organised political actors and entities, not only will they not be dangerous, they will continue to remain completely irrelevant.

The writer is a political economist.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2017

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Aside from testosterone, the military, small businesses, the private sector, attractive women, private property, happily married heterosexuals, and people who refuse to conform to their Utopian-or-else drum circle mentality, there few thingsliberals hate more than being held to the rules theyve set for others. When it happens, they generally react the same way to scream like a teenage girl that theyre a victim.

Liberals found some of their favorite fellow travelers on the business end of the Sword of Damocles theyve been lording over the rest of us for years. Forgive me if I dont give a damn.

Congressman John Conyers was forced to resign in disgrace to stop an ethics investigation from discovering who knows how many more victims of his sexual advances. The Ethic Committee does not investigate former Members, so their inquiry stopped immediately.

Senator Al Franken was forced to resign in disgrace after his 8th accuser came forward. He was angry in announcing his resignation, which will happen at some undetermined point in the future. Democrats forced him out specifically so they could claim the moral high ground, which goes to show that liberals will do the right thingwhen every other option has been exhausted.

Democrats at the Washington Post were quick to congratulate themselves and use Frankens eventual resignation for political purposes, which was the only reason it was done, by declaring that they were the only one of our two great parties with any integrity.

Seems the magic number of accusers is 8, after which that vaunted integrity kicks in.

While those political resignations were orchestrated explicitly to weaponize the concept against Roy Moore, who is his own kind of gross, they werent the only controversy surrounding a liberal this week.

If you were on social media at the start of this week you probably saw some liberal whining about progressive podcaster Sam Seder being fired by MSNBC over a tweet hed send years ago making a joke about Roman Polanski. Seder, host of what you have to assume is the ironically named Majority Report podcast, was a long-time contributor to the Democratic Partys unofficial cable news network and a favorite of the beta-male set.

Seders undoing was a result of a tweet hed sent in 2009, when liberal Hollywood was attempting, yet again, the rehabilitate child-rapist Polanski. In protest, Seder tweeted, Dont care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/a great sense of mise en scene.

The tweet was unearthed and publicized by alt-righters and MSNBC fired Seder within hours.

It was clearly a joke, a bad one, but a joke nonetheless.

Still, I dont care.

This taking quotes out of context game is where liberals live, and has been a weapon used against conservatives for two decades. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and just about everyone who sits behind a microphone or appears on TV and does not spew Democrat-approved talking points has found themselves being smeared by MSNBC and their flying monkey Gestapo army at Media Matters. Its about damn time they got a dose, as small as it was, of their own medicine.

Seders sponsors were targeted on Twitter, which is another favorite tactic of these goose-stepping goons.

That Seder was fired over what was clearly a bogus reason is sad, but its their rules, so who cares?

Liberal journalists, who either fall in line with Media Matters ideology or have remained silent was it was used to chase away sponsors from conservatives, clutched their pearls when the Seder news broke.

MSNBCs own Chris Hayes tweeted, Also, I reiterate my longstanding position that people shouldn't be fired for a tweet, *particularly* one that is obviously being read in manifestly bad faith. He not only must not watch his own network, he doesnt appear to watch his own show.

Seder immediately declared himself a victim of a right-wing smear, as is the standard liberal reaction to being held to their own rules, and tried to raise money off it. Welcome to the club, Sam.

It sucks that anyone would be on the receiving end of a deliberate smear job, where their words are deliberately taken out of context to harm someone for the simple act of having a different opinion on politics, but these are their rules, not ours. They started this game, they weaponized the out-of-context billy club, so to Hell with them.

Unlike Jeffrey Lord, who was fired by CNN for an out of context tweet being lied about by left-wingers, Seder was hired back at MSNBC after 2 days of outrage from liberal journalists. Liberals have no problem with conservatives being railroaded, but they hate it when theyre held to the standards they set for everyone else. They can take comfort in the fact that it only lasts a few days, then all is forgiven.

John Conyers and Al Franken got what they deserved, Sam Seder was screwed (temporarily). Its hard to feel badly for any of them because its clear they will never, ever extend the same courtesy to anyone else.

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Middle English: via Old French from Latin liberalis, from liber free (man). The original sense was suitable for a free man, hence suitable for a gentleman (one not tied to a trade), surviving in liberal arts. Another early sense generous (compare with liberal (sense 4 of the adjective)) gave rise to an obsolete meaning free from restraint, leading to liberal (sense 1 of the adjective) (late 18th century).

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