Posted on 09/29/2005 5:55:51 PM PDT by blam
It been said that a lot of the slaves when freed didn't want to leave the farms, does the telegraph think they should have stayed on as slaves?
So people are worried about the unknown we should just keep on discriminating against them seems to be the point of this stupid article as best I can tell........
a country where women don't want to drive? No doubt its safer there. ;)
People don't miss something they never had...and if these women have never lived in a society like America's, then I could see where they would get defensive about being told that they "should" want to change...
however, the part of the report that says that those Abu-GHarib pictures, and the "rumors" or torture at Gitmo, have caused the people to see us as oppressors instead of liberators...then that is a darn shame...
and I just heard that O'Reilly just was saying that the Pentagon hasn't openly fought to keep those videos and other pictures out of the newspaper, after a judge recently ruled in favor of the NYTimes to show them...
Think I'll wait to hear Ms Hughes.
More left wing rubbish masquerading as news.
FMCDH(BITS)
NOW that is a good idea!!! Me too....
I think I would really like to hear what Karen has to say..it should really be interesting...
Different countries, I am sure, are different in their reactions, of course...and I would like Karen to speak to the women of Afghanistan...
When we first won the war....I was aghast at the women having to wear burqas...and was so glad that they wouldn't have to anymore, after we rid the country of the Taliban, and supposedly Sha'ria Law...
but, when I saw footage of the elections last week, it looked like most of the women still wear them....I would love to know why...
Yup, I saw that...a good segment for O'Reilly.
OK
Who has the picture of the 60 or so wrecked cars entitled, "Woman-only parking lot"?
Women go back to men that beat them. Why??
That's right. The koran calls for killing all Jews and Infidels.
Don't Americans understand that every suicide bomber had a mother?
Happy is a relative term, a pampered slave is still a slave. We cannot "liberate" the arabs as long as they prefer their own tyrants to what they perceive as foreign puppets. Even if they are freely elected.
Most Germans where not "nazis" yet they fought to the death against all enemies of their nation in order to defend their tyrant. I am afraid the arabs will only change when they finally, like the germans, sit among the rubble of their cities and realize they follow a failed way of life, religion and culture wise. Until we realize that, we will not win the war against Islam. And, it is a war against Islam, the terror phase is merely a small part of it.
You know what?
I don't know...and I was one of them, once upon a time ago...I went back a few times....but finally left for good, after he was hosptitalized in a psych hospital....
There are prolly as many answers as there are women...and all of them irrational...
But, I definitely see your point...good one.
That is SERIOUS "Stockholm Syndrome." Any Western psychologist would say that this person has a mental problem.
This is sorta like, "Yes, my husband beats me, but he is a good provider and I know he loves me."
I sure wouldn't want this "Doctor" treating me or my family.
but, when I saw footage of the elections last week, it looked like most of the women still wear them....I would love to know why...
Guessing--part of it is that they're used to wearing them...like I'm used to wearing shorts in the summer & jeans in the winter. If I 'have to' wear something else, as in 'dress-up', I feel goofy.
Biggest part, I think, is a sense of personal security. They feel protected and would feel vulnerable in something more revealing. It's as much or more a social custom as it is a religious one and customs are slow to change.
This is like, "I know my husband/boyfriend loves me. He just has to beat me because sometimes I am bad."
Karen should have had answers ready.
How one could be a 'woman' in the Arab world is beyond me.
I can buy that...sounds good to me...
You know, I see women all the time that SHOULD wear burqas...LOL
shame on me!!...I like shorts and BIG T-shirts, myself.
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