Terrorism Unveiled is written by this American female exchange student living in the Middle East. I like reading it because its interesting reading an American perspective abroad.
She has a great posting today about “Honor Killings”, the practice of killing girls because they’ve had sex.
One interesting thing I’ve observed in Athena over the last few months is that when she originally went over she was kind of a liberal Democrat.
As she’s lived in the Middle East, she’s started becoming a neo-conservative. As she says today:
These people are living lies. All the women here are veiled, whether the physical fabric is covering them or not.
And the men are just as blind.
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Just for the record, I was never a liberal democrat. I’ve always been “conservative” although I think in the world sense, I’m very liberal—-like wanting freedom for all people, democracy, etc.
In the US, I’m labeled as conservative and a neocon and being in the Middle East has only reinforced my views.
Posted by Athena | November 30, 2004 10:48 AM
Posted on November 30, 2004 10:48
Fair enough. I just find it interesting that you’ve definitely shifted rightward in your middle eastern policy.
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November 30, 2004 3:05 PM
Posted on November 30, 2004 15:05