Uhhh…how about some pressure on the Afghani tribalists instead.

You could start by following Ms. Chesler’s lead and encouraging
your fellow female Americans to ask why public reporting in the US on these kinds of (multi?)cultural barbarities seem endemic to certain kinds of social environments.

Do I see the difference between organized state-organized violence and a group of radical Islamicists who work outside of or across national boundaries, yes, of course, I do. But I also see horrible likenesses with cultural attitudes which foster continuous violence against women, police forces and political figures who rationalize and condone it, and a public that accepts that they are helpless to stop it.

I am not talimg about an isolated act of “domestic abuse” but an epidemic of similar events and a wholesale failure of the public, the state and the judiciary to respond appopriaterly. Am I mistaken in thinking that this phenomenon is not limited to New Zealand?

If this single instance had the woman önly” crippled for life, the numbers of others who are killed, whose children are subject to lifelong trauma, and whose society is dragged even further down into the morass of acceptance of debasement of women’s rights–and children’s, and even men’s.

We may just be fooling ourselves if we think these events are trivial compared to what the Taliban or Al-Qaida do. There should be zero tolerance–tout court!

Norman

I was not tryimng to be ironic, nor to draw moral quivalence. But the guy who did this threw his girl friend down the stairs, then kicked her until her back was broken in four placesx, and then waited hourzs to call for help. Now even worse there are men writing in the papers blasming not just the woman, buit women’s refuges. I see this as only slightly less than outright murder.

Norman