It’s time for me to let outrage spill into the blog again, and although I could pound on about health care in America, the abomination in Burma, the double standard on internationally adopted children and much more, this gets my dander itching this morning …
It is now legal in Afghanistan for a man to starve his wife to death if she refuses to have sex with him.
Rape, of course, is not an issue, as that goes without saying. Beating to death is common enough and usually without repercussions, and now starvation is condoned.
And how will the world react? With its usual impotence …
Western leaders and Afghan women’s groups were united in condemning an apparent reversal of key freedoms won by women after the fall of the Taliban.
Oh, the dreaded “united condemning”!
Shall we wait to see how much food that puts into an Afghan woman who’s not in the mood for abuse?
A collection of my short stories:
I'm in this one, too ...
And I'm in here, as well ...
Paradise Preoccupied 