Reply #2: a regular feature at DU. it's really astonishing. they're more concerned about women wearing [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

the wrong clothes than that they might be bombed, tortured, dispossessed, made refugee, lose their husbands, families, children.

their husbands & fathers being cast as the "oppressors" who put them in burkas, their mothers as the "oppressors" who cut their genitals -- while the invader is cast as a savior who will remove them from all these "oppressors" -- one way or another.

to make it even *more* ironic, if that is possible, it's the US who brought the Taliban to power in the first place & the US who sparked the resurgence of fundamentalism in the middle east.