The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31548   Message #411383
Posted By: Don Firth
05-Mar-01 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: Thought for the day Mar 3-loss of Buddha (update)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day Mar 3-loss of Buddha
Kat, what I said was pure sarcasm.

To regard any kind of repression as an "inconvenience," I think, fails to grasp the reality of the situation. What happened to Jews and others under the Third Reich was an atrocity of the most egregious kind. The condition of women in Afganistan and (I'll risk the wrath of Allah, or at least His followers here) in other Muslim dominated regimes is also an atrocity. It is not quite of the magnitude of the Holocaust, in that women are not being murdered wholesale, but it is an abomination nonetheless.

I found the serious use of the word "inconvenience," in reference to the situation of Muslim women, particulary in Afganistan, rather disturbing. I was giving Lepus Rex a dope-slap. Sorry, LR, but that's my position.

Don Firth