What they really want to do to us
By Uppity Woman on December 2, 2008 at 1:30 AM in Current Affairs
Please look at the photo below and understand exactly what this is all about for women everywhere.
How does this photo make you feel?
Do you have a mother? That’s what she would look like if one of these savages got their neanderthal paws on her after the slightest perceived offense. Just so you know. It’s almost a sport with these beasts.
Then imagine a misogyny-enabling government that wants to talk to people and break bread with them with No Preconditions. Imagine a party that abandoned you with a sneer.
Thank you Mr. Kristof, for showing a bit of the Truth. You’re the first person to really even bother in a long long time.
Photo: Nicholas D. Kristof, NY Times
“Acid attacks and wife burnings are common in parts of Asia because the victims are the most voiceless in these societies. Naeema Azar, above, was attacked by her husband after they divorced. Her 12-year-old son, Ahmed Shah, looks after her.”
Terrorism in this part of the world usually means bombs exploding or hotels burning, as the latest horrific scenes from Mumbai attest. Yet alongside the brutal public terrorism that fills the television screens, there is an equally cruel form of terrorism that gets almost no attention and thrives as a result: flinging acid on a woman’s face to leave her hideously deformed.
Here in Pakistan, I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely prosecuted and acid sales are usually not controlled. It’s a kind of terrorism that becomes accepted as part of the background noise in the region.
Read the rest here. Take a deep breath first. You are going to need it. Then ask yourself the last time you heard anyone in USA government denounce or revile these well-known actions that some wish to bring to our shores. George Bush? Condi Rice? Barack Obama? joe Biden? Nancy Pelosi? Howard Dean? Sarah Palin? John McCain? Anybody? I do recall Hillary’s “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” in Bejing, identified as one of the top 100 speeches in America of the 20th Century. How long ago, again?
When was the last time NOW decried these atrocities? Then ask yourself if, after all you have seen and heard during the last election season, whether or not enough of your sons seem to care. Perhaps the Goal here is to just tell us that if we behave we won’t get the Acid Treatment in the future.
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