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From Abbottabad to Worse
Hating the United Stateswhich funds Islamabads army and nuclear program to the humiliating tune of $3 billion a yearPakistan takes its twisted, cowardly revenge by harboring the likes of the late Osama bin Laden. But the hypocrisy is mutual, and the shame should be shared.
| Christopher Hitchens. Just the first paragraph, for a taste of exactly how the gentleman did not mince words this time. And if you have time, read what he wrote after a post-9/11 research trip to Pakistan here -- five pages of Hitchens' observation. |
Salman Rushdies upsettingly brilliant psycho-profile of Pakistan, in his 1983 novel, Shame, rightly laid emphasis on the crucial part played by sexual repression in the Islamic republic. And that was before the Talibanization of Afghanistan, and of much of Pakistan, too. Let me try to summarize and update the situation like this: Here is a society where rape is not a crime. It is a punishment. Women can be sentenced to be raped, by tribal and religious kangaroo courts, if even a rumor of their immodesty brings shame on their menfolk. In such an obscenely distorted context, the counterpart term to shamewhich is the noble word honorbecomes most commonly associated with the word killing. Moral courage consists of the willingness to butcher your own daughter.
Posted by: 2011-06-08 |
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