The Elephant in the Room

Yale’s admission of a former Taliban official is generating a lot of attention in the blogosphere at the moment. Glenn Reynolds has more links today. I posted about it yesterday. The Taliban ruled Afganistan from 1996 until we removed them in 2001. Today I came across this story. Imagine being married at the age of four. Imagine being beaten nearly to death. Imagine having boiling water poured onto you. Imagine being scarred for life, both mentally and physically by the age of twelve.

"Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He told her that if she didn’t find a missing watch by the next morning he would kill her. He almost had already".

And this:

"When I was three years old my father died, and after a year my mother married again, but her second husband didn’t want me," says Gulsoma. "So my mother gave me away in a promise of marriage to our neighbor’s oldest son, who was thirty."   "They had a ceremony in which I was placed on a horse [which is traditional in Afghanistan] and given to the man."   Because she was still a child, the marriage was not expected to be sexually consummated. But within a year, Gulsoma learned that so much else would be required of her that she would become a virtual slave in the household.

And this:

"They beat me with electric wires," she says, "mostly on the legs. My father-in-law told his other children to do it that way so the injuries would be hidden. He said to them, ‘break her bones, but don’t hit her on the face.’"

Read the whole thing. Look at the pictures. Look at the eyes of that 12-year old girl. Her eyes are very, very old. Much too old for a little girl. Imagine yourself living in fear that your "family" will come and get you. Yale appears to be unable to understand what true evil is. Let me give you a hint: Recruiters for the US military are not evil. The Taliban are. Admitting an unrepentant former spokesman for the Taliban is to tolerate and enable the kind of evil this story tells of. Civilized people do not harbor someone from a regime that tolerated this kind of behavior. Civilized people condemn the actions AND the people who defended the actions. There’s an elephant in the room, Yale. Don’t you think it’s time to recognize it?

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Update: I found another link back to this post while looking for something else. Townhall’s Nail Yale also picked it up. Thank you!