taliban

One of the reasons we felt it was necessary to go to war in Afghanistan was the inhuman treatment of women by the Taliban; a treatment grounded in the interpretation of their religion that women were not equal to men. The men of the Taliban espoused the teachings of their Bible and in parsing the phrases and chapters translated the word of the God they worshiped to state women were  unable to think for themselves. Women, the Taliban insisted needed guidance from men. There was a place and reason for a woman but none of that was to be their husbands/fathers/brothers equal. Americans were furious that such inequality could be conceived let alone enforced. Many members of this nation practicing Christianity were certain that had the Taliban not been Muslim worshipping a heathen for a God, the respect for women would be a whole lot better. The Quran we were told by these New Testament Christians was the at the root of evil for denying women their rightful place in the sun. Had those Muslims been practicing Christianity instead of Islam the US would have little reason to send our Troops to this God forsaken nation. But as is often the case hypocrisy of religion triumphs and the fact that my God is better than your God reigns and reason disappears. Women of America (for the Republicans claiming to be Christian before anything else) need direction and guidance from men. Women are created from Adam’s rib as is stated in Genesis and must be led like lemmings. Paul Ryan is a co-sponsor of the Personhood Amendment providing an embryo with 14th Amendment rights. Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill with Todd Akin defining rape as anything but a criminal act dividing it into legitimate rape or just a means to get an abortion. Richard Mourdoch has spoken to God and God told him women who get raped should be content because God just gave them lemons and now they make their baby into lemonade. Mitt Romney will cut funding to Planned Parenthood and he still has to contemplate the Lilly Ledbetter Act requiring equal pay for equal work. All of these men are Christian, each of these men are fervent anti Taliban crusaders saying that state run religion is a dangerous thing, that is if that state run religion is Islam. How come when we have Taliban fighters in this nation who pray to Jesus their restrictions on women’s rights is not too worry about?  When these MEN are deciders of women’s rights and deniers of women’s equality and espouse the New Testament this nations core values are not harmed or hindered? So, you are a female, or a lover of women or a brother or a father or a husband or a son and still voting Romney/Ryan/Republican? 2012 could be the year of the Christian Taliban coming to America!