"... the Bush Administration proclaimed that women's rights would be a centerpiece of its project to make Iraq a democratic model for the rest of the Arab world." source
"Although such (honor) killings are hard to quantify and occurred during Saddam's regime as well, Iraqi professionals believe that women are now being murdered by their kin at an unprecedented rate."source
"In Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, government officials are trying to understand and stop a rise in honor killings.... women are still dying nearly every day." source
We saw the widely covered tragic story finally told last week where "Dua Khalil, a 17-year-old Kurdish girl whose religion is Yazidi, was dragged into a crowd in a headlock with police looking on and kicked, beaten and stoned to death last month." source
I watched the cell phone video taken at the murder and its not for the squeamish, be prepared to shed tears for this beautiful girl. No one helped her, no one lifted a hand in her defense.
The honor killings actually enhance George Bush's faith based sexual abstinence approach to pre-marital sex and method for reducing AIDS throughout the world. The honor killings make abstinence seem like a moderate position.
There are a lot of problems with faith based abstinence programs, for example:
"studies also show that when teenagers from abstinence-only programs do have sex, they're less likely than others to use protection. Perhaps that's why the teen pregnancy rate in Texas remains one of the highest in the country, despite the abstinence-only policies Bush pushed as governor." source
The neo-conservative think tanks provide the manpower and their right wing filtered publications provide the support for Bush's faith based abstinence program. At The Heritage Foundation you will find numerous articles on abstinence only sexual theory along with supporting data. For example:
Adolescent Virginity Pledges, Condom Use, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Adults
I checked out the collegiate backgrounds of the authors of this Heritage paper and found that although one is a PhD, the degrees are not in reproductive medicine, human sexuality, psychology, and such, as one might assume, but in economics, political science, and public policy - always good fields to use as a base to make determinations on understanding and altering human sexual behavior for vast segments of the US and world population.
But what about good old red, white, and blue American sexual freedom. In the new conservative Bush world, the type of sexual attitudes casually depicted on TV shows like "Frasier" and "Drew Carey" -both shows sported Bush supporting Republican actors - all that would be part of the great liberal scourge that promotes, yes indeed, terrorism.
The amazing flexibility of the right to blossom new horizons that stun the innocent and to find segments of society to reframe, yields another fruit. You see there is a new thought out there understood by some conservatives and its that conservatives in America have far more in common with the fundamentalist Islamists, still hated and despised but maybe a little bit less. Folks on the left already knew this, but here we see a specific angle.
You see the liberalization of gay marriage causes fundamentalists of all stripes, Christian and Moslem, to recoil in horror. When opposing forces recoil at the same thing then maybe they have something in common, a common enemy.
"In 'Christianity Today', managing editor Mark Galli urged a strong stand against terrorism but also sounded a startlingly sympathetic note toward the Islamic militants’ anger at the “hedonism,” “materialism,” and “secularism” the West was exporting into their cultures. In October 2004, in the same magazine, Watergate felon turned evangelical minister Chuck Colson warned that the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States would help radical Islamic terrorists by making “our kind of freedom abhorrent” to Muslims."
"Meanwhile, in May of that year, former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan asserted in his syndicated column that on such issues as homosexuality, “conservative Americans have more in common with devout Muslims than with liberal Democrats." source
Finally, the younger brothers of the presidents seem to always deliver a jolt of humorous embarrassment for the elder. Here Neil delivers in spades, in spite of George's faith based preachments and tax payer financed abstinence programs for the rest of us:
From CNN on November 25, 2003: Bush brother's divorce reveals sex romps
"The (Neil) Bush divorce, completed in April after 23 years of marriage, was prompted in part by Bush's relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago.
The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.
"Mr. Bush, you have to admit it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her," Brown(lawyer for now ex-wife Sharon Bush) said."
"It was very unusual," Bush said.
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