Sunday 12 November 2006

Rita

Ah....our old friend, Rita Verdonk, she of the deliciously cheeky Dutch name, is up to her old tricks, God bless you Ms. Verdonk. For the sake of controlling an estimated 50 people out of the one million Muslims in Holland, Ms. Verdonk risks pissing off the international community.
Now on the one hand, I can totally see the whole disguise aspect. It seems way too easy to put on this full body armour that is the burka and hide a multitude of sins. Hell, even Muslim Pakistan has now banned women lawyers from wearing them and the veil within the courthouse since they had been playing fast and loose and swapping about at their whim while representing clients.
So what am I suggesting? I dunno, I have no answers, just that Rita seems about as subtle as her name. Slam Verdonk.

Still in the Netherlands, surely only Mike Meyers could make this up,

"Religious tensions have been heightened by the murder of film director Theo van Gogh by a Dutch-Moroccan militant in 2004, and by the dramatic rise of Pim Fortuyn, an anti-immigration and anti-Muslim gay politician who was assassinated by an animal rights activist days before national elections in 2002."

Or maybe....you couldn't make this stuff up.

Nor this. The F-Word reports on a new phenomenon that you might think only happens in Iran, well in Iran as we have seen before you can be hanged for reporting rape, but in Britain you can still end up with a criminal record.
In the case that Jess McCabe refers to here, a woman who had never had sex with a man, was raped by one who told her she was gagging for it, the police determined that she had had intercourse and that there was bruising on her breasts and neck. The rapist walked free and she has been charged with perverting the course of justice, ie lying. Bear in mind that they had proved she had been entered but until that point, in spite of having a full sex life with her partner, she had NEVER had sexual intercourse with a man. I was beyond outraged by this story. It is already difficult enough to get women to report rape, even more difficult to secure a conviction. Women who have gone through the courts have reported the process of taking a man to court as being like going through the rape all over again and then the state rapes them a third time.

I can make no comment on this but one big WHY???

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