For those wanting an alternative view of Iraq from ground level from those putting their lives on the line for us check this one out.

If you've never experienced entering a building in a "conga line" facing the unknown [SWAT term for tactical building entry], this will get your adrenaline pumping, it did mine.

RBT

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HT Instapundet

I'VE MENTIONED J.D. JOHANNES' INDEPENDENT IRAQ DOCUMENTARY, OUTSIDE THE WIRE, before, but now he emails that it's available through Amazon. He writes: "Pretty cool...for me at least." It's pretty cool for anyone.

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An excellent piece from Dr. Sanity, the resident shrink of the clear thinking Blogos.

I've heard this dirty little secret of Islam before. Gee and you thought the Catholic priests were the first.

Dr. Sanity hits the core of what RBT believes is the secret to winning the GWOT - empower the women of Islam. An here's a nonviolent way to do this.

A US thread company is supporting Afgani women to start their own businesses that will empower them economically over their nutty men.

Where are the world's feminists?

Seems to me the repression and abuse in Iran and other bastions of the Religion of Peace (hanging of women for men's misdeeds in some form of religious perverted justice) would have them up in arms?

Yes, I know there are some dedicated to this effort, but the MSM gives their efforts little coverage. Perhaps showing some skin like PETA will get them some coverage:-)

Update:

I shared this thought with some of my former law enforcement colleagues re the root problem of the Islamofascist culture and ideology:

And here's something for those who believe in a higher authority and see the darkness of Evil spreading in the world. Those who work Domestic Violence and sexual assault and abuse crimes will immediately see the root cause of this Evil.

This is a war of ideologies and it will be won by winning the war of information by showing those who live in this sick Medieval culture that contrary to what their leaders/Imams say, there is a better way of life.

RBT

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HT Dr. Sanity

A VICIOUS MISOGYNY

In "The Boys of the Taliban", Jamie Glazov writes about one particular rule (rule 19) of the new Taliban "code of conduct" for its fighters in Afghanistan:

But there is a curious rule that the Western media has typically ignored. Rule No. 19 instructs that Taliban fighters must not take young boys without facial hair into their private quarters....

Aside from the question of what is permitted if a young boy does happen to have facial hair, this new Taliban commandment brings light to a taboo pathology that underlies the structures of militant Islam. And it is crucial to deconstruct the meaning of this rule — and the horrid reality that it represents — because it serves as a gateway to understanding the primary causes of Islamic rage and terror.

Rule No. 19 obviously indicates that the sexual abuse of young boys is a prevalent and institutionalized phenomenon among the Taliban and that, for one reason or another, its widespread practice has become a problem.

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From a psychological perspective then, the freedom and empowerment of women in society are absolutely critical because they are responsible for the earliest environmental influences on children--influences that will impact the child throughout his or her life. If the society has little respect for women and regularly demonizes, debases or humiliates them, it will have a profound generational impact. This is why encouraging women's rights around the world should be a high priority in US Foreign Policy.

Women subjected to institutionalized, societal abuse (such as what we saw under the Taliban; and what we see to a greater or lesser extent in almost all Islamic countries--where physical abuse is sanctioned; where women are sexually demonized; where they are deprived of education, as well as physical, social, economic and political freedom) are hardly in a psychological position to be able to provide effective "nurturing" to children.

Women whose own aggressive impulses have been savagely constrained by society and who have few options to sublimate those impulses, are at grave risk of encouraging aggressive and violent "acting out" on the part of their children on their behalf-- especially the male child who must be seriously conflicted about his love for and identification with a lowly-regarded woman.

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