Monday, December 18, 2006
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
As one who headed up a project to raise thousands of dollars for the Boxing Day Tsunami relief effort, I found this especially depressing: (hat tip LGF)
In fact, if there’s any bitching to be done by the Left on this issue, it’ll probably be about our own complicity in this. We’ve Oppressed those poor people with our capitalistic fund-giving. And we compounded our eeevil by sending a US aircraft carrier to their paradise to further oppress them with tons of food and tens of thousands of gallons of fresh water.
Yep. We’re bastards. Again.
Update: Michelle Malkin has a video Vent over at Hot Air. Check it out.
As one who headed up a project to raise thousands of dollars for the Boxing Day Tsunami relief effort, I found this especially depressing: (hat tip LGF)
WHEN people around the world sent millions of pounds to help the stricken Indonesian province of Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, few could have imagined that their money would end up subsidising the lashing of women in public.Will we hear complaints about this from the Left? No, of course not. Generally, the Left views beating women as a bad idea – unless it’s conducted by Islamists, which the Left adores. Any enemy of Western Culture in general, or the United States in particular, can do no wrong in the eyes of the Left.
But militant Islamists have since imposed sharia law in Aceh and have cornered Indonesian government funds to organise a moral vigilante force that harasses women and stages frequent displays of humiliation and state-sanctioned violence.
International aid workers and Indonesian women’s organisations are now expressing dismay that the flow of foreign cash for reconstruction has allowed the government to spend scarce money on a new bureaucracy and religious police to enforce puritan laws, such as the compulsory wearing of headscarves.
Some say there are more “sharia police” than regular police on the local government payroll and that many of them are aggressive young men.
“Who are these sharia police?” demanded Nurjannah Ismail, a lecturer at Aceh’s Ar-Raniri University. “They are men who, most of the time, are trying to send the message that their position is higher than women.”
In fact, if there’s any bitching to be done by the Left on this issue, it’ll probably be about our own complicity in this. We’ve Oppressed those poor people with our capitalistic fund-giving. And we compounded our eeevil by sending a US aircraft carrier to their paradise to further oppress them with tons of food and tens of thousands of gallons of fresh water.
Yep. We’re bastards. Again.
Update: Michelle Malkin has a video Vent over at Hot Air. Check it out.
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