Thursday, November 30, 2006

Life Under the Taliban

Disembowelled and murdered for teaching girls

Thursday November 30, 2006
By Kim Sengupta

GHAZNI - The gunmen came at night to drag Mohammed Halim away from his home, in front of his crying children and his wife begging for mercy.

The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely.

But his life was over.

He was partly disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes. The remains were put on display as a warning to others against defying Taleban orders to stop educating girls.


So begins the story from the New Zealand Hearald chronicling life as it is under the Taliban in those parts of Afghanistan where they still rule. Full Article

As Americans debate whether to continue the sacrifice in Iraq here is yet another example to ponder, as if we needed one, of the nature of the threat we're opposing. It's a world where freedom is denied for all but the Mullahs, who are privileged so as to take prepubescent girls from their parents and enslave them for their own sexual pleasure. It's a world where men are taken in the night and beheaded for percieved slights and affronts. And it's a world where devils in the form of human beings disembowel fathers simply for trying to teach their daughters about the world around them.

I do not pretend to divine the course of action our nation should take in Iraq. But that we are struggling against the most viscious form of evil since the holocaust I do not now question. Western civilization downplays this threat at its own great peril. Islam is the second largest and fastest growing religion in Europe, right behind Atheism. As Pope Benedict rightly pointed out, while Atheism denies all faiths - Islam denies all reason. The distant thunder of future conflict can already be heard in Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. But it will not stop there. For the western powers it will be a titanic struggle, if it is taken up at all, and last very possibly for decades.

And what will there be at the end? I shudder to think if men of good will lose heart.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Abortions of Convenience

It is well known that the vast majority of abortions in the U.S. are not performed because of health reasons, but becuase it is inconvenient to have the child. A recent study indicates that about half of these are repeats: Repeat Abortions, a literal, if not ghastly, "testament" to a throw away society.

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