Ultimate Taliban lunacy

qualiall_2 at yahoo.com qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 2 19:06:51 PST 2001


Brad brought up the recent news about the Taliban...I remembered seeing this article a while back...Think it can't happen here? (By the way, "Father Mag", the Magazine this article comes from, voted Elian Gonzalez's dad as "Fathher of the Year") This article is from back in 1997...

http://www.fathermag.com/GenderWars/taliban02.shtml

Taliban Movement Gains Strength in the United States

by Francis King

In Afghanistan, Taliban followers are convinced that the only solution is to keep all women inside the house, quiet, and away from any position of responsibility.

Should American women be kept away from roles which require adult judgement, or are today's American women ready to take responsibility for their actions? Apparently they are not, according to the National Organization for Women (NOW). NOW has passed a resolution indicating their opposition to any penalties for the false reporting of child abuse or spousal abuse. Maybe passing this resolution makes NOW members feel good, but many will interpret this position as confirmation of their widely rumored Holy War Against Men.

In NOW's view of things, there is no problem of false reporting. They would tell us that it is a miscarriage of justice when a man is let free after an abuse charge is found to be without substance. Perhaps NOW would feel much better if we just forgot about this substantiation business altogether. They know that this might result in some women being falsely accused, but that seems a small price to pay when there is a war on.

The article goes on like this... http://www.fathermag.com/GenderWars/taliban02.shtml

Kevin Dean



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