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q_pheevr

Abhorrent laws

Apr 05, 2009 18:06

"Abhorrent" is the word that President Barack Obama used to describe the new Afghan law that denies women certain extremely basic rights, such as the right to leave their houses on a whim, or the right to decline to have sex with their husbands. This law would, in effect, place all Afghan women under a particularly malign form of house arrest in ( Read more... )

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harkalark April 5 2009, 22:46:27 UTC

Agreed.

eryn_ April 6 2009, 02:33:51 UTC

A long time ago, I said we [USA] didn't need to go halfway around the world to fight a war against religious extremism, we've got plenty here and the shipping/transit costs to Kansas are a lot lower ( ... )

eryn_ April 6 2009, 02:34:57 UTC

(er, slow weekend, and you're a friend of a friend (merle_) with an interesting topic.)

tahnan April 6 2009, 04:51:36 UTC

Kansans are frequently on the news protesting military funerals because the country "deserves" to lose soldiers in a foreign war since the country hasn't killed off all the gay people living in it.

Come now. There are loonies everywhere; the difference is that these people aren't actually the ones in power in Kansas. I mean, all right, there are religious conservatives in Kansas (and many other states) who ensure that laws get passed, or fail to get repealed, that encode certain religious beliefs. But the ones in power aren't remotely comparable to groups like the Taliban, and the ones comparable don't remotely have the power that groups like the Taliban do.

chillyrodent April 6 2009, 12:56:53 UTC

Kansas takes a lot of heat, and rightfully so, but I'm not sure it's fair to say Kansans protest military funerals when it's actually a tiny, loud, whacko fringe family who is doing this stuff.

I also think fundamentalism is a big problem in this country; just look at the destruction the last eight 28 years has caused. But, Fred Phelps has not yet seized control in Topeka and God Hates Fags is not yet the state motto. We've got a lot of work to do, but we're starting a long way ahead of Afghanistan.

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