"When the issue is Islam, debate – or disagreement – is hazardous" :: Jihad Watch

In "Keeping the faith for the sake of all our Aqsa Parvezes," Rosie DiManno in the Toronto Star (thanks to Jen) calls out all our spineless human rights advocates:

...It's all grist for debate. But when the issue is Islam, debate – or disagreement – is hazardous.

So even feminist warriors, decades after social emancipation rewrote human rights laws, are leery of giving offence. The Baal of multiculturalism – recast to incorporate radical interpretation of religious and cultural imperatives – has trumped gender equality.

In Afghanistan, before the pariah Taliban regime was ousted, women were stoned to death on the slimmest of accusations – but the world took more outrage at the destruction of Buddhist statues.

In Afghanistan, a girl once sobbed in my lap because she was taking the burqa the next day. Do not dare try to tell me she had a "choice.''

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