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Governor Palin has in fact denounced honor killing in her debate & on the campaign trail. Obama as a multiculturalist, where everything is relative & beyond judgement, never speaks to the plight of Islamic women…no surprise. But the leftist fems hate Palin so much that women’s rights in Muslim lands takes a back seat.

For reasons I will never understand, feminists are unaware of these atrocities. Perhaps you will succeed in letting them know, Phyllis, but somehow I doubt it.

Dear Mr. Jouchnowitz:

This feminist, and many others like me, ARE aware of these atrocities. That is why I support human rights groups such as Amnesty International.

Dear judith:

You have distorted Obama’s record and put Palin on a pedastal that she does not deserve.

But what are we going to do-bomb the stadium? Bomb the towns. I remember praying for Afghanistan women way before right wing people suddenly started caring about women’s plight i.e. after the Twin Towers were destroyed and they realized Islamic woman hatred might actually be relevant to them.
So I had mixed feelings when we went into Afghanistan-I am happy if those women can be liberated but sad that they too are in the line of our fire. And it’s like the snakes -the murderous terrorists still manage to hide out-how many innocent people do we kill to get one terrorists? Sigh…it’s really sad.

Wonderful questions, Phyllis! I would love to hear what the two candidates would have to say about this topic! My heart is broken for this child and for my own two great-neices, who were citizens of the United States, all victims of a mindset which allows these barbaric deeds towards women! May all three rest in peace!

To iammefrommiami:

If I understand Ms Chesler’s point (which if I’m correct I completely agree) it is that muslim culture is NOT innocent. It does not mean they all should be killed. It means they should be shamed and ridiculed into conformity to decent and civilized norms of behavior. Tough task indeed. But when the hell is the West going to start?

Well, government is not the solution, government is the problem. Our normal diplomatic and legal practices provide aid and comfort, not to mention privileged sanctuary to the miscreants. Try suspending or even repealing intervening legalities. And resurrect some practices of the past.

Seaborne pirates: Q ships with Letters of Marque should do quite a bit to abate that nuisance.

Inland, study up on how the British in India did away with the custom of suttee and the cult of thugee. Then hire a few good mercenaries to replicate that performance elsewhere.

We simply cannot commit our Armed Forces (or CIA either) to every place where atrocities are commonplace. Nor can we afford to ignore them, not the way bad habits can go global these days. So, enable the private sector to take over, creating and employing capabilities tailored to particular needs and
which have a specified life-span so those capabilities do not last beyond the need for them.

See Charlie Wilson on how to put this together.

And yet….Amnesty International did not say one word about the atrocity of any sort of punishment for reporting rape. Just that stoning is “gruesome and horrific.” I’m not disagreeing by any means - but I’m also severely disappointed in what they didn’t say.

Dave - I assume you refer to the quote usually attributed to General Napier on suttee: “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”

This story is looking to be a hoax that is being echoed across news media. No real source, just “someone on a AI blog said it”. AI falls and propagates hoaxes consistantly.