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India-Pakistan
From Abbottabad to Worse
2011-06-08
Hating the United States—which funds Islamabad’s army and nuclear program to the humiliating tune of $3 billion a year—Pakistan 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 Rushdie’s 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 shame—which is the noble word “honor”—becomes most commonly associated with the word “killing.” Moral courage consists of the willingness to butcher your own daughter.
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#1  Compare wid FREEREPUBLIC > MEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED SEX SLAVES + [non-Muslim] FEMALE PRISONERS COULD DO THE JOB - KUWAITI WOMAN POLITICIAN.

Apparently, back in the 1980's + 1990's when Lefty female US-Western Activists were hailing the "universal" liberation of women + women's rights, they never visited or traveled to Pakistan or Kuwait, etc.

versus

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > IN PUNJAB, A CHRISTIAN [Politician-Legislator] CANNOT PRESENT THE PROVINCIAL BUDGET, as is a serious affront to Muslim-dominated local Govt = Muslim Politicos.

"PAYING THE TAX" + BEING A LOYAL, LAW-ABIDING, COMMUNITY-MINDED LEADER DOTH NOT EQUALITY/PARITY WID MUSLIMS MAKETH???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-08 00:53  

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