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Monday, April 03, 2006

The Taliban “Man” — Still at Yale University

I have elected to put the word “man” in incredulous-quotes when referring to Yale student and former propagandist for the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban government Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, since men as defined through the ages generally do not support the forced sheathing, the disfranchisement, and the arbitrary killing of women. A man, you see, does his best to counsel a woman who has been raped or attacked, or he seeks justice, or he attempts to find the criminal. Faced with the same situation, the first order of business in Hashemi’s eyes is to stone to death the woman who was raped, that rough-chipped skull fragments and spewn gray matter might rectify her grave sin in the eyes of the state. And then Hashemi might go to work, where his job is—or was—to convince the civilized world to turn a blind eye to all this. He shames manhood.

John Fund reports on the Taliban “man” once again, this time through the teared eyes of someone with a stake in the matter: Katherine Bailey, whose husband died on September 11 and who has been watching the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. She thinks Yale president Richard Levin might be interested in seeing the trial, too.

Posted on April 3, 2006 07:46 AM. Permalink