Yet more evidence makes it clearer still that the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan has had less than a desirable outcome to date for the inhabitants of that country, especially the women. In that benighted country, branding someone a communist is enough to invite a...
Is This a Step Forward, Backward, or Sideways?
When the beautiful Saudi news presenter was brutally beaten by her husband, this case first made news because the real story was that a Saudi male was being taken to task – by the law! – over bad behavior toward a woman. Now, as court cases seem inevitably (here in...
Burqa a Garment of Seduction?
So the three killed by the Taliban in last Monday's attack on election workers were, as you probably correctly guessed, women, should come as no surprise. What’s distressing beyond the death and mayhem these "concrete blockheads" (as one reader aptly calls...
Taliban Still Killing
Reports continue to come in of Taliban terror attacks designed to disrupt the upcoming fall elections in Afghanistan – no one is spared: men, women, children, reporters. However, voters also continue to register although the original end-of-July deadline has passed....
The Good, the Bad, and the Taliban
Taliban Targeting Women in Afghan Election Registration EffortsThose loathsome dudes, the Taliban, are doing their despicable best to squelch the women of Afghanistan, having killed two Saturday and an unknown number on Friday when 16 folks were gunned down for...
Taliban Still Scum
"Taliban Say They Killed Women Poll Workers" – the Taliban still show themselves to be heartless scum, proudly vaunting the fact they killed women poll workers and children. Let us remember the immense courage RAWA displayed showed for many, many years in the...
Spain and Anti-Americanism: a never-ending story
Terrorist attacks in Europe have been numerous and ongoing, but the sheer scale of Spain's "3/11" and the concomittant carnage are new and shaking. Spain is frightened -- and lashing out. Remember how badly the US needed to act, to do something, practically anything,...
The Passion: Redemption through Pain, Not Anti-Semitism
The Passion: Redemption through Pain, Not Anti-SemitismYes, The Passion is a jolting shocker of a movie. And my immediate reaction as a white, middle-class, non-religious American was pretty much that of Tikkun: If Jesus was about love, why focus on the violence and...
