Volume II, Issue XXXI
Speaking about the Unspeakable
The 'other' Weekly News Magazine [click to read] got it right this week. The cover features a beautiful Afghan woman. You look into her lovely eyes and suddenly recoil in horror... her nose has been hacked off! Punishment for fleeing her husband's abusive family. The photographer has crafted the image well, lighting her in such a manner as to draw you in to her story before confronting you with the harsh reality of her situation.
Upon seeing this, I almost decided it was time to end THYME, then I realized that citizen journalists need to stay in the game when it gets tough.
An old Dragnet episode came to mind. The episode had Friday and his partner confront the abusive murder of a child. Friday's partner, you may recall, was the picture of a doting Father.
Harry Morgan has to go off and vomit after seeing the crime scene; Then the two detectives prosecute the crime! Sense must follow sensitivity. We cannot let the bad people win. Closing your eyes and wishing it were not true won't work here. Radical Islam is at the door... and it seeks to savage our women!
We cannot give up our instinctive protection of our wives and daughters. Counting them as equals before G-d requires supressing the brute force of our baser instincts which would default to overpower and enslave them.
If being a woman in Afghanistan is bad, being a Jew or Christian is worse. The persecution of our fellow believers for 'blasphemy' is horrible. Followers of the 'religion of peace' beat a man sensless for this 'crime.' They mutilated this poor saint so badly that he is unable to use his hands and arms. His family must assist him in everybasic function of life. Sadly, if you follow reports of persecution, this type of story repeats itself again and again.
Yet the 'politically correct' among us see nothing wrong with having a mosque with a shariah compliant 'party place' overlooking Ground Zero in New York. I agree with whoever stated that this would be fine at some time that a Synagogue or Christian church could be freely built anywhere in the Muslim world. Hopefully TIME is waking up to the fact that these people desire no less than to put Western society under their opressive law... or destroy it.
That is why THYME's cover this week depicts the mutilation of Liberty. She is one lady we must protect at all costs.
I think you've topped yourself with this one!
ReplyDeleteThank you Joy, passion has a way of bubbling to the top.
ReplyDeleteI almost gave myself a vacation from THYME this week... but when I saw the TIME cover this week knew I HAD to write.