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Well, yes, the Taliban raped me, but they also respected me — they are not monsters
NRO ^ | June 06, 2009 | Andy McCarthy

Posted on 06/06/2009 1:59:00 PM PDT by Scanian

From the Brussels Journal comes the mind-blowing story of a left-wing Dutch journalist, Joanie de Rijke, who went to Afghanistan to conduct a sympathetic interview with Taliban jihadists who had just killed 10 French troops. Naturally, she was abducted and serially raped for six days. And now she is angry ... not at the chief Taliban thug — who showed her "respect," though, regrettably, "he could not control his testosterone" — but at the Dutch and Belgian governments who refused to pay the $2 million ransom the jihadists demanded. And of course, in the Netherlands, the media and the government are furious at Geert Wilders for pointing out the obvious:

This story is a perfect illustration of the moral decline of our elites. They are so blinded by their own ideology that they turn a blind eye to the truth. Rape? Well, I would put this into perspective, says the leftist journalist: the Taliban are not monsters. Our elites prefer to deny reality rather than face it. One would expect: a woman is being raped and finds this unbearable. But this journalist is not angry because the Muslim involved also showed respect. Our elites, whether they are politicians, journalists, judges, subsidy gobblers or civil servants, are totally clueless. Plain common sense has been dumped in order to deny reality. It is not just this raped journalist who is suffering from Stockholm syndrome, but the entire Dutch elite. The only moral reference they have is: do not irritate the Muslims – that is the one thing they will condemn

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1 posted on 06/06/2009 1:59:00 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

What the hell is wrong with so many white people? They don’t even have the guts to speak the truth. I am sorry that she was raped, but this is pathetic.


2 posted on 06/06/2009 2:00:37 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Scanian

On top of it she is probably pregnant.


3 posted on 06/06/2009 2:01:38 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Scanian
Wow, that is seriously messed up.

This person needs to get her head examined.
4 posted on 06/06/2009 2:01:45 PM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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To: Scanian

I have a thought running through my head that I can't post.

5 posted on 06/06/2009 2:02:58 PM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Islaminaction

It is. I have the same idiot white liberal Democrats here in L.A. and they bump their chest with the words “diversity” yet when I simply asked them “how come your all your friends are all white and not one Hispanic, Asian or black friend?” and they simply shut up...

And yes, they drive Hybrids with Obama stickers on them like real caricatures of the left.


6 posted on 06/06/2009 2:03:09 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Scanian

Joanie de Rijke

7 posted on 06/06/2009 2:03:35 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Islaminaction

Come on...this woman wasn’t raped. The only reason she’s crying rape is the fellows didn’t give her enough leads for her stories like they said they would.


8 posted on 06/06/2009 2:03:42 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Scanian

Such pathetic, brain-washed people deserve what they get when glamorizing the terrorists who wish to kill them.


9 posted on 06/06/2009 2:04:21 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Islaminaction

Just curious. How does a rapist show respect? Inquiring minds want to know.


10 posted on 06/06/2009 2:04:45 PM PDT by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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To: max americana
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11 posted on 06/06/2009 2:06:48 PM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Scanian

Men, remember that.
Always say “Thank you Ma’am”
And wait for them to offer their hand first.

/s

Unbelievable


12 posted on 06/06/2009 2:07:21 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: raybbr

Guilty!


13 posted on 06/06/2009 2:08:23 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: holyscroller
Just curious. How does a rapist show respect?

Send flowers? Tell her she needs to put ice on it?

(shrug)

14 posted on 06/06/2009 2:08:55 PM PDT by magslinger (The first dog has papers but the President doesn't. How interesting!-cubsfanconswoman)
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To: kittymyrib

Stockholm Syndrome


15 posted on 06/06/2009 2:09:31 PM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: holyscroller

Joanie de Rijke (above) is a Dutch journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban in the Sorobi district of Afghanistan last year. She was there to report on the deaths of ten French commandos, hacked to pieces by Taliban fighters.

She arranged to meet a Taliban commander, in order to ‘hear their side of the story’. When the fighters came to the meeting, they simply kidnapped her. Despite this, she still refuses to admit she was taking unnecessary risks.

She was held for six days before the magazine she worked for paid a ransom to free her. She was raped by the commander during her ordeal, and she has now written a book called ‘Held by the Taliban’.

“I can’t be angry with them, because they let me live.”

“I couldn’t be sure whether the ransom would be paid, which meant I didn’t know what was going to happen to me. To break the constant tension, you have to talk to each other. The situation was very tense. The whole atmosphere was very tense. The commander, one moment he was friendly to me and the next moment he went mad because - I don’t know - of some news he got, and then he threatened to kill me. So, there was always tension. And to break that tension, you had to talk and laugh a bit. It was a matter of surviving.”

On the rape ordeal:

“It’s not black and white. It was the commander who raped me. I wanted to give vent to my hatred, to chop his head off and kick it off the cliff. He was schizophrenic: the following day, he said he was sorry. In that sort of situation - no matter how awful - you develop a bond with those people. You have to, if you want to survive. You could say the hatred and that bond go side by side.
“Just let me make one thing clear: I hate him for what he did to me. I hate him because he raped me. I was very, very mad and I wanted to kill him right away. But the day after it happened, he more or less asked me to forgive him. That was very confusing for me. It was a very schizophrenic situation because he had mood swings. I just had to cope with that. Normally you can show that you are angry but I couldn’t of course. I had to get on with them. I just couldn’t say to this commander what I was really thinking because then he would have killed me right away.”

Ms de Rijke says that she was nevertheless shown respect.

“These things can exist side by side. That doesn’t mean that I’m suffering from Stockholm syndrome.”

http://thelambethwalk.blogspot.com/2009/05/geert-wilders-talks-sense.html


16 posted on 06/06/2009 2:09:47 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: raybbr

Looks better than a goat ... to the jihadis don’tchaknow.


17 posted on 06/06/2009 2:09:57 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Scanian
Leftists have no concept of reasonable judgment. If she was raped and enjoyed it, let her indulge in her sadomasochistic pastimes. But the woman deserves no respect from reasonable people.
18 posted on 06/06/2009 2:11:54 PM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: Scanian
The greatest guilt today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting...the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut.-Rand

IT'S TIME FOR A RETURN TO THE OLD SCHOOL

19 posted on 06/06/2009 2:12:04 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: raybbr

Guilty!


20 posted on 06/06/2009 2:12:11 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Islaminaction
This is a variation of the Stockholm Syndrome, in which victims identify with the perpetrators. It is not new. And it is not exclusive to europeans or "whites" or whatever.
21 posted on 06/06/2009 2:12:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Scanian
do not irritate the Muslims

Please do not make them mad and maybe they won't blow up people... /sarc

22 posted on 06/06/2009 2:12:29 PM PDT by John123 (Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
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To: raybbr

Sorry, she looks like a tranny.


23 posted on 06/06/2009 2:13:03 PM PDT by maggief (I)
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To: Scanian

Uh, I must have missed exactly how they showed her respect?

Will someone please explain to me how they showed her respect? She seems unable to.


24 posted on 06/06/2009 2:13:10 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Scanian

Stockholm Syndrome


25 posted on 06/06/2009 2:13:16 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: Scanian


26 posted on 06/06/2009 2:14:31 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: Scanian
Naturally, she was abducted and serially raped for six days.
And now she is angry ... not at the chief Taliban thug — who showed
her "respect,"


Well, crazy thoughts do pervade the minds of some folks after
their first real date...
27 posted on 06/06/2009 2:14:45 PM PDT by VOA
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To: MHGinTN
vs.
28 posted on 06/06/2009 2:14:45 PM PDT by maggief (I)
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To: Scanian

Just goes to show what living in a freaking cave and not bathing will do to your tastes!


29 posted on 06/06/2009 2:15:49 PM PDT by Big_Harry ( Thank God I am an "Infidel"!)
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To: raybbr

Joanie: “Your testosterones must be hard to control. Would you like to respectfully rape me?”

Hussein: “Force it on me.”


30 posted on 06/06/2009 2:15:55 PM PDT by Rider on the Rain
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To: kcvl
That was very confusing for me.

Life is hard for people.

Life is really hard for stupid people.

Hey, Joanie, how's it feel to be thick as a brick?

31 posted on 06/06/2009 2:16:41 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
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To: Scanian

She respects them so much, fine, take her out and stone her to death muslim style for being a cheap slut by enticing them rape her.


32 posted on 06/06/2009 2:16:47 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Scanian

Once again, Wilders gets the blame because it’s politically correct to speak ill about Muslims.

It’s well worth going to the full story in the Brussells Journal.


33 posted on 06/06/2009 2:16:56 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: freekitty

She was given tea and biscuits, ... and her head wasn’t chopped off.


34 posted on 06/06/2009 2:16:58 PM PDT by maggief (I)
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To: raybbr
Only a Taliban would hit that. (They must've eaten all the goats before.)
35 posted on 06/06/2009 2:17:12 PM PDT by Moltke
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To: kcvl

This sounds very Stockholm-Syndrome-like.

And very, very weird.


36 posted on 06/06/2009 2:17:14 PM PDT by AUJenn
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To: Cicero

In mean politically INcorrect.


37 posted on 06/06/2009 2:17:25 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Hmmm...

I wonder if she feels any guilt for the death and damage that the ransom money may have caused by know. That kind of dough could buy a lot of munitions, bribe guards, etc.

I wonder what sort of nightmares that sort of mental gymnastics must produce? Ghastly even to think about.

38 posted on 06/06/2009 2:18:16 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: maggief

Um, that’s a male goat, and I think the journalist is/was a female human. Just guessing mind you ... and the jihadis might not care what sex the goat is.


39 posted on 06/06/2009 2:18:44 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Scanian
but at the Dutch and Belgian governments who refused to pay the $2 million ransom the jihadists demanded

She's not worth $2M. Plus I suspect she figured she would get a percentage, and that's the real reason she's angry.

40 posted on 06/06/2009 2:18:59 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: bdeaner

They screwed her brains out

Brain dead lefty


41 posted on 06/06/2009 2:19:37 PM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: Scanian

Patty? Patty Hearst...Is that you?


42 posted on 06/06/2009 2:19:57 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: MHGinTN

A goat is a goat as far as they are concerned. ;)


43 posted on 06/06/2009 2:20:33 PM PDT by maggief (I)
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To: Scanian

I can see the movie and book deal now, “Gang Bang with the Taliban” w/the sub title “It’s Only Rape If You Don’t Enjoy It”


44 posted on 06/06/2009 2:21:21 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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To: raybbr

OK... that was one of the most hilarious websites I have ever read... and not surprisingly... I suspect this is how elitist liberals really think...


45 posted on 06/06/2009 2:21:51 PM PDT by John123 (Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
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To: Scanian

There’s stupid, then there’s Joanie de Rijke stupid.


46 posted on 06/06/2009 2:23:18 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 ("What's in YOUR wallet? MY MONEY!")
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To: M1911A1

The poor Talibani commander probably felt so ashamed that he asked for the ransom in goats rather than money ... the goats won’t write about the rape by a feckless diminuitive idiot.


47 posted on 06/06/2009 2:23:22 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Scanian
This stupid leftist can have her brainwashed, ignorant, islamist-fetish prerogatives, but what about the little nine and ten year old native girls who're condemned to lives of sex slavery and subterfugal subjugation under these sadistic animals???

Will these islamist-fetish leftist feminists ever speak up for these native girls/women's rights or their entrapment in islam???

48 posted on 06/06/2009 2:24:20 PM PDT by parisa
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To: PapaBear3625

Now now, she is not that bad looking, from what we see on this thread. And she has no make-up on, so you really don’t know what she would look like if ‘battle ready’.


49 posted on 06/06/2009 2:24:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Scanian

I wonder how much Viagra they had to pump into this guy?


50 posted on 06/06/2009 2:24:53 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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