{"id":20504,"date":"2013-09-23T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20504"},"modified":"2013-09-23T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:45:06","slug":"not-all-cultures-are-created-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20504","title":{"rendered":"Not All Cultures Are Created Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, the New York Post<\/a> posted an article by\u00a0Phyllis Chesler<\/a> entitled, “My life of hell in an Afghan harem.” It is the story of an American<\/a> college student who marries a man from Kabul<\/a>, Afghanistan<\/a>, and travels with him to Afghanistan. After marrying him at age 20, she travels through Europe<\/a> with him and then on to Afghanistan. When she arrives in Afghanistan, an airport official takes away her American passport. That is pretty much the end of her rights as a person. Because she has given up her passport, she cannot prove that she is an American, and thus is not entitled to protection by the American Embassy.<\/p>\n

Because of the lack of sanitary drinking water, Ms. Chesler soon contracted dysentery and later hepatitis. Her father-in-law eventually sends her back to America as she is slowing recovering from hepatitis. Needless to say, she is more than grateful to get back to America.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never told this story in detail before, but felt that I must now. Because I hear some westerners preach the tortured cultural relativism that excuses the mistreatment of women in the name of Islam<\/a>. Because I see the burqa on the streets of Paris<\/a> and New York and feel that Afghanistan has followed me back to America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I call myself a feminist \u2014 but not just any feminist. My kind of feminism was forged in the fires of Afghanistan. There I received an education \u2014 an expensive, almost deadly one \u2014 but a valuable one, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I understand firsthand how deep-seated the hatred of women is in that culture. I see how endemic indigenous barbarism and cruelty is and unlike many other intellectuals and feminists<\/a>, I don\u2019t try to romanticize or rationalize it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got out, and I will never return.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Her story is a striking example of what Sharia Law means for a culture. All Americans need to make sure Sharia Law never comes to America.<\/p>\n

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