Re: The Enemy of Women -Thought-provoking(Long)
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon May 3 10:03:50 2004
As long as the media care more about the Michael Jackson and Jayson
Williams' trials than they do about the threat to our way of life, we
are in deep trouble.
just my opinion - i could be wrong.
art
At Mon, 3 May 2004, RModugno@aol.com wrote:
>
>The enemy of women
>
>http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | There were two must-read stories on Page 1 f
>the April 26 New York Times. One, headlined "Abortion-rights marchers vow t
>fight another Bush term," reported on the massive pro-choice rally that had
>flooded the nation's capital one day earlier. The other, "Militants in Euro e
>openly call for jihad and the rule of Islam," described the rise of Muslim
>supremacists who make no secret of their goal: the conversion of Europe to slam,
>by force if necessary.
>
>The abortion rally was called the March for Women's Lives — a creep
>Orwellian inversion if there ever was one. And yet countless marchers reall did seem
>to believe that the foremost threat to women's lives today is George W. Bus
>and his benighted opinion that killing babies in the womb is wrong. To be s re,
>killing babies in the womb is legal — and has been for 30-plus year . Roughly
>1.3 million abortions are performed in the United States every year, which
>suggests that what the pro-choicers euphemistically call "reproductive free om"
>is alive and well in modern American life.
>
>But 750,000 people don't descend on Washington to hear that things are OK.
>The mood on the National Mall was acrid with fear and loathing. Protesters ore
>signs reading "Stop the war on women." And speaker after speaker warned tha
>no female will be safe until the Republicans are driven from the White Hous .
>
>"Keep your laws off my body!" yelled actress Ashley Judd. "Can you hear me,
>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?" Hillary Clinton issued a plea to "stand up for o r
>Constitution" by electing John Kerry in November. "We will not be gagged!"
>roared Susan Sarandon. "We reject, Mr. Bush, your hypocrisy, your greed, yo r
>disrespect for women's bodies, for women everywhere." Gloria Steinem intone :
>"This government is the greatest danger on earth."
>
>But there is a vastly greater danger — especially to women †” than the
>president of the United States: the global jihad being waged by militant Is amists,
>like those described in the other New York Times story.
>
>"Young Britons whose parents emigrated from Pakistan . . . have turned
>against their families' new home," the paper reported. "They say they would like to
>see Prime Minister Tony Blair dead or deposed and an Islamic flag hanging
>outside No. 10 Downing Street. They swear allegiance to Osama bin Laden and his
>goal of toppling Western democracies to establish an Islamic superstate und r
>Shariah law, like Afghanistan under the Taliban."
>
>The abortion marchers haven't forgotten what "Afghanistan under the Taliban
>was like, have they? Women could not leave their homes unless accompanied b a
>male relative. In public they had to be shrouded from head to toe and could
>be flogged for allowing a glimpse of ankle or wrist. Barred from working
>outside the home, many Afghan women sank into poverty. They couldn't wear b ightly
>colored clothes, high heels, or makeup. They were forbidden to play sports.
>They weren't even permitted to laugh out loud.
>
>Today the Taliban dictatorship is gone and Afghanistan's 12 million women a e
>free of its cruel fanaticism. For that they can thank the US military and i s
>commander-in-chief — the same commander-in-chief so stridently deno nced on
>the Mall last week as an enemy of women.
>
>It is surreal: We are at war with aggressors who would undo every gain wome
>have made in the last 200 years, and the feminist left makes abortion its
>number one priority. Is the pro-choice movement really so frozen in Sept. 1
>thinking? Do the National Organization for Women and Planned Parenthood and
>Feminist Majority really consider it more important to fight for partial-bi th
>abortion than to fight for the liberal democratic values the Islamofascists aim to
>destroy? Don't they understand what it means when radical imams — l ke the one
>in Geneva quoted by the Times — are openly urging their followers t "impose
>the will of Islam on the godless society of the West"?
>
>Writing in the Australian newspaper The Age last week, journalist Pamela Bo e
>listed a few recent news items from the Pakistani press: A 17-year-old girl
>strangled by her older brother because she had married a man of her own
>choosing. Two women dead in "honor killings" committed by their husbands — one tied
>to a bed and electrocuted; the other axed to death. A woman beaten so sever ly
>by her in-laws for failing to prevent her younger sister from eloping that er
>legs had to be amputated.
>
>"Thousands of women in Arab countries are legally murdered every year in th
>name of honor," Bone wrote. "Women are stoned and beaten for reasons that
>would be unheard of in Western countries. The freedoms of Western women, th ir
>open sexuality, are a large part of the hatred Islamist men feel for the We t. .
>. . They would, if they could, have all our daughters in burqas."
>
>Militant Islam is on the march. Not only in Pakistan or the Middle East, bu
>in England and France — and America. The stakes are enormous. This s no time
>for any of us to be fighting the wrong enemy.
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>Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG
>Marietta, GA
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
