Mogadishu Redux
An Open Letter To Our Candidates About Islam Abroad

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 3, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/369/mogadishu-redux

Excerpt:

Gentlemen:

My sister's blood, a child's blood, cries out to me.

Last week, a barbaric gang of Somali Muslim fundamentalists gang-raped a 13 year-old girl after which they stoned her to death. One thousand spectators in the Kismayo stadium cheered the stoning on. The victim's name was Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow.

This atrocious scenario, and similar atrocities, are increasingly familiar in Muslim countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. When a Muslim woman dares to allege rape, she is treated as if she herself has committed a capital crime. And she is not merely shunned or disbelieved–she is punished, tortured, murdered. Her attackers go free or buy their way out of even a light sentence.

Mister Potential Presidents: Do you believe that America has no business interfering with such indigenous behaviors abroad? That this is a fight that we cannot win? Or that the cost of undertaking it is too high in terms of our own blood? After all, America has already been in Mogadishu.

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