“I had thought it was simple.” Thus said the 20 year old brother of a 14 year old Afghani rape victim after being arrested for using a razor blade to abort his sister’s baby: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41777.

The young girl had been raped by a construction worker and had the misfortune of residing in an orthodox Islamic community where an illegitimate birth meant that she and her family would be treated like pariahs. So her brother, Ali, took her to a cowshed and, as her mother helped restrain her, used the razor blade to slice open her womb. He removed the baby, buried it, then stitched up the wound with coarse string used to tie potato sacks.

Ten days later, she was taken on a 30 mile donkey ride to a provincial hospital suffering from infection and later, to protect her from family and community members, was evacuated to Bagram Air Base where she remained in critical condition.

Although such lurid and grotesque tales are not unheard of in Western, generally Christian, societies, they rarely if ever result from religious motivations. More likely it is a jealous rival or a psychotic, wannabe mother who would perpetrate such acts. Sharia Law, however, if strictly interpreted, condones measures to atone for the shame visited upon a family by the sin of being a rape victim.

The other side of the Koranic coin, the rapist’s side, …

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

But don’t forget, the UN tied our hands – no mandate to enter and remove Saddam, only to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. I swear, if I was POTUS and this nation was threatened, my first act would be to destroy the UN, in self-defense before they could hamstring me. So I’m getting a kick out of Israel telling the UN to go pound sand.

And AV, I quite aware of the tribes inhabiting the region before Israel existed. Did you know that everytime they show footage of another Pali “innocent” being blown up, I do a little dance in the streets, just like they did after 9-11.

It’s amazing how people have no clue as to how to wage war.
Bush the Elder waged a “proportional war” against Saddam in the 90’s. And we had to go back and finish the mess a decade later.

The goal of war, for the defender, is to overwhelm your opponent, destroy his war machine and make him wish he never thought to attack you in the first place.

It is an ugly complication that Hamas is proxy for Iranian and other uncivil governments, and that they choose to use civilians as shields and propoganda fodder. But war is never clean.

You are correct when you call us ignorant, for we have learned none of your evil ways.