Life Among the Barbarians

Powerline ^ | 9-22-13 | John Hinderaker

[afraidfortherepublic]

Phyllis Chesler is a psychologist and academic whose writings we have quoted from time to time over the years. Ms. Chesler has always had a rather skeptical attitude toward Islam, in particular with regard to its treatment of women. Now we know why: Chesler has published a new book titled An American Bride In Kabul. You can read an excerpt from An American Bride in the New York Post.

Chesler’s horrifying story begins in 1959 when, as an 18-year-old college student, she meets and falls in love with an older, wealthy and cosmopolitan Afghan man. Two years later, they agree to get married and set off on a tour of Europe, with a side trip to Kabul. Kabul becomes a prison which Chesler, deprived of her passport, is unable to leave. She describes the family compound where she is imprisoned as a “harem,” and finds that her mother-in-law (one of her three mothers-in-law, actually) is trying to kill her.

[afraidfortherepublic]

The teenaged Chesler in the U.S., with the Afghan who became her husband

[afraidfortherepublic]

This has happened to many American girls, including my cousin's daughter who is still recovering from a horrendous marriage to a Kuwaiti in CA. She'd grown up next door to him and thought he was as "American" as they come. He suddenly changed overnight after they'd been married a couple of years and tried to force her into a plural marriage.

[BenLurkin]

Oh.

Not about living in San Francisco.

[jtal]

I’m not surprised. American women in particular seem vulnerable to believing all of the lies we are fed about “diversity” and “multiculturalism”.

[Pan_Yan]

FR thread of New York Post article:

My life of hell in an Afghan harem (Misadventures of Jewish feminist in burkaland)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Phyllis Chesler

[driftless2]

All leftists are prone to being deluded. That’s why they’re leftists. They’ll believe any anti-American lies fed to them. I remember back in the sixties when the rock group Blood, Sweat, and Tears toured part of eastern Europe including Romania (then Rumania.) They were shocked at the rough treatment by the commie authorities who regarded them as a decadent, western threat to their youth. But many witless, young leftists wanted to believe in the myth of the “wonders” of the socialist states.

[SunkenCiv]

My life of hell in an Afghan harem
(Misadventures of Jewish feminist in burkaland)
NY Post | September 21, 2013 | 10:55pm | Phyllis Chesler
Posted on 09/22/2013 2:52:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3069946/posts

[oldbrowser]

Slightly off topic but still somewhat related.
A neighbor of mine are "Palestinians" and muslims. The husband is a taxi driver and the wife wears her burka, but they are very good neighbors have raised their children who were born here as Americans.

When the oldest daughter turned thirteen the family planed a trip to Palestine to visit the grandparents. When I asked her if she would be wearing a burka while on vacation she replied, "of course not, I'm an American and we don't have to that". When they returned from the one month vacation she was wearing a burka. And she has worn one in public ever since. The kids at public school tease her quite a bit and it bothers her so I have not mentioned it.
However, I can't help but notice that she has changed.

[Mandingo Conservative]

The Palestinian girl has most probably changed because maybe she was abused via the practice of female circumcision.

[cradle of freedom]

This is so much like the Chechen Boston Marathon bombers. All of the Americans who knew them said they were just typical American kids. Isn’t this like what we hear as the police are taking out the dead bodies from the serial killer’s basement? He seemed like such a regular guy. Sick people can sometimes hide their sickness very well.

[cradle of freedom]

This is so much like the Chechen Boston Marathon bombers. All of the Americans who knew them said they were just typical American kids. Isn’t this like what we hear as the police are taking out the dead bodies from the serial killer’s basement? He seemed like such a regular guy. Sick people can sometimes hide their sickness very well.