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   dtroutma said, 7 months ago

   Hmm, and women’s suffrage took how long in the U.S. under those nice “Christian principles” of the guys running the show?
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   mikefive said, 7 months ago

   ^I don’t remember reading about any 14 year old girls being targeted and shot in the U. S. women’s suffrage movement.
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   NebulousRikulau said, 7 months ago

   ^But when it came to Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement, things got close to that.
   
   They seldom talked about the NAMES of the victims, but they were there.
   
   And maybe this will begin to shame the ordinary people of those areas into rejecting the Taliban as their default leaders.
   Sort of, “I may not care if my daughter gets an education, but for them to KILL her because SHE wants one is WAY out of line.”
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   Michael wme said, 7 months ago

   @mikefive

   Quite right. The US suffragettes were law breakers, and the law’s the law, so they deserved everything they got.

   
   The Pakistani girl would have been protected by Pakistan’s laws if they ever enforced their own laws, which they don’t. So the people who shot her were lawbreakers, not law enforcers, and it’s not at all the same thing.

   
   Almost every Pakistani interviewed has said the police should do something, that it was wrong to shoot the poor girl. Not that the police will actually do anything, but that’s the sentiment in Pakistan.
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   russell5419 said, 7 months ago

   nothing will be done by the Pakistani people because they do not value human life, each family has at least ten kids just in case something like this happens, they are kids that are brought up in conditions like a slave labor camp, all their kids are to them are worker bees, and women are the bottom of the barrel over there.
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   SwimsWithSharks said, 7 months ago

   Ariel’s witheringly sarcastic stand against the Taliban’s violence on women.

   Silent, though, on the Christian Taliban’s violence on women. No thoughts on “Legitimate Rape”?
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   olfart said, 7 months ago

   There have been three arrests in that case. I don’t know if they actually had anything to do with it.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

   @Michael wme

   Remember Benazir Bhutto? Killed inside an
   armored vehicle by the fanatics. These guys
   really have it in for female leaders. They must
   all be pretty dickless to be that hateful…
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   Clark Kent said, 7 months ago

   Don’t forget the Salem witch trials & executions
   back in our own sordid history.
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    SwimsWithSharks said, 7 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    America has a history of violence on female leaders too.

    How about Rush Limbaugh calling a woman a slut because she was advocating for birth control pills as part of health benefits.
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    Ms. Ima said, 7 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    Yes, the English were in charge of the Salem witch trials, long long before America was a country.
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    Ms. Ima said, 7 months ago

    @SwimsWithSharks

    I remember Rush pointing out the woman’s plan to attend a catholic university so she could stand on a soapbox and complain about not getting free birth control pills because she couldn’t scrape up a few bucks herself to pay for her night-time catlike sex habit and demanded others pay her entitlements. Rush apologized afterward.
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    coraryan said, 7 months ago

    It is creatures like these who give all Muslims a bad name. But you do not hear of any “moderate” Muslims condeming these actions. Apparently there are no moderate Muslims. I for one would like to see them all leave our country. Close your mosques (aka jihad training centers) and go to the Middle East with your friends.
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    l-empress68 said, 7 months ago

    Again and again, it’s second-class citizens by any other name… You have to have them to do the dirty jobs, like cook your meals and bear your children.
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    SwimsWithSharks said, 7 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    to pay for her night-time catlike sex habit …

    That’s the language of the War on Women, brought to you by your friendly local Republican blowhard. Is it any wonder most women will vote against Mitt?
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