Folks, Time Magazine recently had a very striking cover (which I include here) that should give us all pause. This is the story behind the picture:
The Taliban pounded on the door just before midnight, demanding that Aisha, 18, be punished for running away from her husband's house. Her in-laws treated her like a slave, Aisha pleaded. They beat her. If she hadn't run away, she would have died. Her judge, a local Taliban commander, was unmoved. Aisha's brother-in-law held her down while her husband pulled out a knife. First he sliced off her ears. Then he started on her nose. (See managing editor Richard Stengel's message to readers about this week's cover.)
This didn't happen 10 years ago, when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan. It happened last year. Now hidden in a secret women's shelter in Kabul, Aisha listens obsessively to the news. Talk that the Afghan government is considering some kind of political accommodation with the Taliban frightens her. "They are the people that did this to me," she says, touching her damaged face. "How can we reconcile with them?"
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007238,00.html#ixzz0vsN0hl2W
Fortunately, masses of Muslims took to the streets in world capitals across the Middle East and Eurabia to protest this abuse visited upon an innocent young woman in the name of Islam…
No, wait…
They are still busy protesting Muhammad cartoons and Pope Benedict’s Regensburg Address.
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The Taliban's attitudes about women are identical to those of the Roman Catholic Church.
Libhom: Your profile indicates that you are of a politically/socially liberal persuasion (as am I) yet your comment is far from being openminded. Indeed, it is not only inaccurate but simplistic in a manner akin to Fox "News" or Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
I challenge you to do some reading about what Catholicism actually believes and teaches about women - and read material written by Catholic authors and not some diatribe by Richard Dawkins.
@libhom: Only in your sick, bigoted, Anti-Catholic fantasies.
-Theo
I think if you compare the track record of mistreatment of women, it falls squarely on the sexually-open, pro-pornography, pro-abortion leftists who stop at no opportunity to continue making it worse and worse for women to live and have a stable life in this country.
@libhom
As a woman who knows and follows the Catholic faith pretty well, including HER history,my first reaction to your post was "Bwa-ha-ha!"
In trying to sound politically correct and whatever, you just came across as ignorant.
Individuals like libhom get on these sites to try and get people upset..., I'd ignore such individuals that believe everything they hear and talk only because they have a mouth. Educated individuals search for the truth.
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