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More evidence that Bush and Palin are the Real Problem . . .

by Mark Goldblatt on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 9:01am

From my friend Andy McCarthy at NRO: Several weeks ago, a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl named Hena was killed by fewer than 80 of the 100 lashes to which she’d been sentenced. Hena had been raped by a 40-year-old Muslim man, described as her “relative.” The allegation of rape got the authorities involved, but under sharia law, rape cannot be proved absent the testimony of four witnesses—and rapists tend not to bring witnesses along for their attacks. Unable to establish that she’d been forcibly violated, the teenager became in the eyes of the sharia court a woman who’d had sexual intercourse outside of marriage. Thus, the lashing sentence that became a death sentence.

My comment:

Back again. I just don't understand your point. What does Bush and/or Palin or by extension any politician in the U.S. have to do with a girl or a woman, not an American citizen, being raped & murdered in her country of birth. A domestic crime was committed and that crime must  be addressed in that country. We can talk about human rights and moral absolutes, and who is inferior to whom, but this is something that has gone on throughout the world and we're just beating our gums by acting as though our morality is so much more superior. Of course you can't compare U.S. violent crimes to what has happened in the Congo, Darfur, Iran, to name a few, the systematic, governmental sponsored war on women, Such violent acts are not a matter of moral relevance or situational ethics. They are purposely done in order to degrade, demoralize & weaken an opponent.

The domestic issues of violence towards girls and women in Bangladesh can be raised and addressed but we have no power to do anything. Better to focus on the home front because all you have to do is look at our own front pages and news reports in regard to domestic abuse & violence towards women and not just in immigrant neighborhoods (where by extension you might think there is moral inferiority.)