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The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan's (RAWA) website. Its creators warn you: the photos herein are not for the faint of heart. But they were put there as witness to homegrown terror by an underground Taliban-opposition group known as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan that is trying to galvanize the international community over the Taliban's subjugation of women. At risk of torture or even execution, RAWA members have secretly filmed murders of alleged adulterers and prostitutes and gays before thousands in the Kabul stadium donated to the once cosmopolitan city by the United Nations. Ironically, the same Internet some believe was used by terrorists to plan the World Trade Center attacks is what has enabled these women to communicate beyond their borders. Some of what we've learned: that bombing Afghanistan back to the stone age'' won't likely get us far. Even if RAWA exaggerates, even if reports of modest improvments are true, about a third of Kabul, scholar Barnett Rubin wrote in yesterday's New York Times, is as ruined as the World Trade Center'' by a decade of war. And women die from diseases such as appendicitis because male doctors are still officially forbidden from seeing women and women doctors - women anything - can't work. A brother or husband must accompany women to market lest they speak to shopkeepers, and excite them. Women who paint their nails have reportedly lost fingertips and, for wearing makeup, are publicly lashed. Also on RAWA's Web site, alongside shots of grinning men displaying amputated hands in the streets of Kabul, there is the Painting by Afghan Children site. Where primitive sketches of rainbows and stick-figure families should be are pictures of guns and bloody bodies and bearded men hitting women. Two drawings show men hanging upside down, tied to poles, either dying or dead. The child of the dead man, perhaps, a self-portrait of the artist. I'm not saying this is true or false, but it certainly helps us feel better about killing Afghanis if it's true. And, in its defense, who would have believed the concentration camps of Herr Himmler, or the killing fields of Pol Pot? Comparisons between the Taliban and the Gestapo are rampant. I'm not saying this is true or false, but it certainly helps us feel better about killing Afghanis if it's true. Apparently they have been victims of terror (at the hands of the Taliban) themselves. It's been around for years and I don't think it is disinformation intended to "demonize" the enemy. I have long maintained that we are not at war with them, but with their oppressors. If the disgusting scenes on this website are true, and in any way indicative of the Taliban's mentality, that goes to underscore that theory. It also leads me to believe that our strongest ally in this war may yet be the people crushed under the Taliban's yoke. One photo had this asshole parading around with one of the cut off hands. Making sure all the crowd could see it up front and personal. Now, people are beginning to care - too bad the WTC atrocity had to happen for the word to take notice. This should be common viewing for all the "peacenics" who have doubts of who is the enemy. Were American troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camps and dispatched photos to the world "demonizing" the Nazis? IMHO, publishing factual reports of Taliban atrocities is a useful counter to the moral idiocy reigning on the left in America's campuses, newspapers, Hollywood, etc. We are supposed to feel guilty about intruding Western Civilization on these people? I don't know whether these types of atrocities are as ordinary as this site makes it sound or not. Folks from one side of the issue have been known to tell their story by neglecting to tell the other side. All of which goes to substantiate their claim, and to broaden the base of support within Afghanistan for American intervention. This site clearly has an agenda, and their "facts" may be presented in such a way as to admit of only one course of action: the demonization of the enemy. In this case, as in the case of Hitler and the Viet Cong, the enemies may indeed be deserving of the title. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
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