"Global war on women"


The War against Terror is also the war for women's rights

Ralph Peters takes a different view of the War on Terror in USA Today.

The true symbols of the War on Terror are the Islamic veil and the two-piece woman's business suit.

The math is basic. No civilization that excludes half its population from full participation in society and the economy can compete with the United States and its key allies. Yet Middle Eastern societies, especially, have dug in their heels to resist change. Some, such as Turkey, Pakistan and Iran, have tumbled backward.

Islamist terrorists have formed the last, great boy's club, meeting in caves and warning girls to stay out — or, in the case of the 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, demanding that women be kept from his grave to avoid polluting it. Their vision offers women fewer rights by far than those enjoyed by the wives of the prophet Mohammed. They are women-hating sadists for whom faith is an excuse. Their fears are primal.

He's right. It won't convince anybody, but he is right.

I've said it before. Say what you like about Bush, but there is no other President in history who has done more for women's rights. I don't know if it will last, but the pictures of women voting in Afghanistan and Iraq may do more than any military could possibly do.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - September 27, 2005 at 05:34 AM  Tag


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