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An interesting piece by Charles Krauthammer on one aspect of the Abu Ghraib case that makes it particularly provocative<\/a> in the Middle East in a way that even those condemning it may not appreciate — and an aspect that puts to further scorn Rush’s glib Madonna\/Britney comparison.<\/p>\n

For the jihadists, at stake in the war against the infidels is the control of women. Western freedom means the end of women’s mastery by men, and the end of dictatorial clerical control over all aspects of sexuality — in dress, behavior, education, the arts.
\nTaliban rule in Afghanistan was the model of what the jihadists want to impose upon the world. The case the jihadists make against freedom is that wherever it goes, especially the United States and Europe, it brings sexual license and corruption, decadence and depravity.
\n[…] Which is what made one aspect of the Abu Ghraib horrors even more incendiary — the pictures of female U.S. soldiers mocking, humiliating and dominating naked and abused Arab men. One could not have designed a more symbolic representation of the Islamist warning about where Western freedom ultimately leads than yesterday’s Washington Post photo of a uniformed American woman holding a naked Arab man on a leash.<\/p>\n

(via Rantingprofs<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting piece by Charles Krauthammer on one aspect of the Abu Ghraib case that makes it particularly provocative in the Middle East in a way that even those condemning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48664,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/its-not-easy-being-a-jihadist.html","url_meta":{"origin":6148,"position":0},"title":"It's not easy, being a jihadist","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Dec-14 3:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting \/ amusing article about French nationals who have traveled to Syria and points east to become jihadists (presumably with ISIL or some similar group) ... and are now trying to figure out how to come home because of the hard work, the fear of fighting, the lack of fighting,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24460,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/your-reality-is-interfering-with-my-stereotyping.html","url_meta":{"origin":6148,"position":1},"title":"Your Reality Is Interfering With My Stereotyping!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Dec-11 8:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to the advertising directors for Lowe\u2019s, Bank of America, the Campbell Soup Co., Dell, Estee Lauder, General Motors, Goodyear, Green Mountain Coffee, McDonalds, Sears, and Wal-Mart, for knuckling under to the Florida Family Association, who claimed TLC's \"All-American Muslim\" reality show is clearly \"attempting to manipulate Americans into ignoring\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44610,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/bomb-em-all-and-let-the-next-administration-sort-em-out.html","url_meta":{"origin":6148,"position":2},"title":"Bomb 'em all and let the next administration sort 'em out","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Aug-14 5:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or ... maybe not. \u00a0ISIS (or ISIL, or whatever we're calling them this week) are pretty nasty types, and they could all be hit by pianos from space and I wouldn't lose a bit of sleep. 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