She states she is not for the Taliban, and, in effect, says, well, really I am for their less radical brethren. In using the Taliban as a comparative, she introduces the whole of Islam, with the Taliban being cited as the extreme. Saying women "have gotten too much control in the west," that women "need to be put back some," the logical deduction is she views the treatment of the women in Muslim countries favorably, although she will not go so far as to embrace the extreme wing of Muslimism: the Taliban. V's wife.
What post number was it so I can see the context and what it was in response to?
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“She states she is not for the Taliban, and, in effect, says, well, really I am for their less radical brethren. In using the Taliban as a comparative, she introduces the whole of Islam, with the Taliban being cited as the extreme. Saying women “have gotten too much control in the west,” that women “need to be put back some,” the logical deduction is she views the treatment of the women in Muslim countries favorably, although she will not go so far as to embrace the extreme wing of Muslimism: the Taliban. V’s wife.”
You can quit taking leaps and assumptions. I was NOT “introducing the whole of Islam.” I have SEEN radical Islam in Pakistan and what extremes are there. It is very frightening and very, very, VERY far from America. You want stories, I can give you some. And the Taliban is a fringe or twist off of Islam though that doesn’t excuse it one iota. I personally believe Christianity is the summit of it all and I came to this not because I inherited it. I got Athiesm pure from my mother who grew up in Nazi Germany and is as amoral as you can get (and an Obamanation supporter too).
And hey, I spent 10 years in the Air Force and left honorably when idiotic Clinton changed some rules back in ‘94 that would have put women closer to the front. I was not willing to set foot back in the middle east as a woman soldier and as then a Jew as was on my dog tags at the time. Combat is a place for MEN and men only. I’d be in now if I could be assured of never being sent over there.
When I said women need to be put back some I meant just that. Woman-like, you wrote all sorts of assumptions into my words but man-like I meant just what I said. Women don’t need to be everywhere they are, most don’t need to be working (opening another can of worms here I realize with you).
Heck, let’s open this up -
When women flooded into the work-force in the 1970’s most didn’t need to work, they worked for “fulfillment” or to be honest for just plain greed. All the money that was then poured into the economy lifted many wants into necessities with the result that we have people thinking they are entitled to a 3,500 square foot house for 1 or 2 people even if they can’t afford it. And then men, seeing women wanting to “have it all” and work, many have quit marrying the women and we have lots of nice “poor” single mothers raising children who do not know what a father is.