Islamic Religious and Gender Apartheid
The Murder of a Christian Woman in Kabul

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 20, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/364/islamic-religious-gender-apartheid-murder-christian-kabul

Excerpt:

When a woman friend of mine recently called to tell me that she had been offered a well paid position in Afghanistan I told her not to go. When she insisted, I said: "Alright then, you'd better get a gun, learn how to use it, and get psychologically prepared to shoot yourself in case you are captured but not instantly killed." She was shocked, shocked. And so I continued: "But you might be easily disarmed. Better have a dentist implant a cyanide tablet, (or something more merciful), in your teeth so that you can opt out of the repeated rapes or the video-ed be-heading." Now, she was silent and listening carefully. I continued. "You may not be held for ransom, so if you absolutely must go, I would request that your do-gooder work be carried out entirely within an American Army base–but please understand, they, too, have been successfully attacked."

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