Is It Racist To Condemn Fanaticism?

That is the operative question in today's politically correct society. I wonder how many people don't speak out and offer their true sentiments because doing so could lead to a loss of employment, labelled by designated groups, face the wrath of "human rights" agencies, etc.

Liberating Afghan women
Filed under: Totalitarian Regimes, War on Terror, Islamists — Jerry @ 1:07 pm
How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam
Is it racist to condemn fanaticism?
Phyllis Chesler-Times online uk)

Once I was held captive in Kabul. I was the bride of a charming, seductive and Westernised Afghan Muslim whom I met at an American college. The purdah I experienced was relatively posh but the sequestered all-female life was not my cup of chai — nor was the male hostility to veiled, partly veiled and unveiled women in public.

When we landed in Kabul, an airport official smoothly confiscated my US passport. “Don’t worry, it’s just a formality,” my husband assured me. I never saw that passport again. I later learnt that this was routinely done to foreign wives — perhaps to make it impossible for them to leave. Overnight, my husband became a stranger. The man with whom I had discussed Camus, Dostoevsky, Tennessee Williams and the Italian cinema became a stranger. He treated me the same way his father and elder brother treated their wives: distantly, with a hint of disdain and embarrassment. (more…)