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Sunday, May 17, 2009

an open letter to the irish times

Dear Sir or Madam or whatever.
Reports have surfaced recently of yet another Taliban/Al Qaeda attack against school girls in Afghanistan.
Not against the school, mind.
Against the little girls themselves.
As per usual.
At the Ura Jalili girls Primary School in Charikar, the Islamists fed poison gas into the classrooms.
Fifty little girls are in hospital.
Tell me.
Do you not think that it might have been appropriate for your journalist Mary Fitzgerald when she was hobnobbing with Taliban/Al Qaeda agents last week, terrorists to whom she had presumably paid cash for an interview, do you not think I say, that in view of your own self appointed role as Women's Rights Commissars in Ireland, do you not think I charge you, that maybe your journalist could have asked a few questions about the Taliban/Al Qaeda practice of murdering little girls to prevent them getting an education?
Tell me.
Tell me you vermin.
Fond regards always.
James Healy

3 Comments:

Blogger Schneewittchen said...

Well said James.

8:15 PM  
Anonymous MissJean said...

It's the same here. Female journalists interview Middle Eastern leaders like Ahminijad and never ask the obvious questions:

1. "You say there are no homosexuals in Iran. Does it have something to do with the public executions of those who are caught?"

2. "You say that Western countries should treat you with greater respect, but have you ever considered that Western culture respects men who show self-restrain and treat women and children with deference?

5:02 PM  
Blogger Schneewittchen said...

In some ways though, it's up to male journos to ask those questions, not that it's right, but the crazies do see them as their 'equals' (even tho in reality, they have no equals since they are lower than amoebae.)

8:45 PM  

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