Tuesday, August 3, 2010

What Happens to Women if We Leave Afghanistan?





















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What Happens to Women if We Leave Afghanistan?

Time Magazine Gets it Wrong




by Phyllis Chesler

NewsRealBlog

August 3, 2010



http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/833/we-leave-afghanistan-women













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We take our freedoms for granted in America and assume that everyone is either like us or wants to be. We find it hard to believe that this is not so.


Of course, I am not talking about thee and me but about all those American journalists, academics, and politicians who actually believe that the Cordoba House (the Mosque at Ground Zero) is a great idea; that women should have the "religious right" to wear the burqa in the West; that Muslims as a group must not be viewed as terrorists—even if most terrorists today happen to be Muslims who commit their bloody deeds in the name of Islam; above all, I am brooding about the American inability or refusal to distinguish between real Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents and feminists and those who pretend to come in peace (in English) but who preach hatred and war within their mosques and in Arabic.



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