Time magazine’s new cover: Woman whose nose was cut off by Taliban
posted at 10:13 pm on July 29, 2010 by Allahpundit
Not just her nose, though: They ordered her husband to saw off her ears too for the crime of running away from home. Time’s editor insists that “We do not run this story or show this image either in support of the U.S. war effort or in opposition to it,” but that’s nonsense, of course. The image is as stark an argument as you’re likely to see for continuing the war, which is why lefties naturally have been griping about it all day. Some offer legit complaints — instead of putting a mutilated girl on the cover to make the case for staying put, why not put a dead soldier on there to make the case for pulling out? — and some not so legit, like the idea that because this happened last year when U.S. troops were already in the field, it portends nothing about what’ll happen on a wider scale when we leave. I’m glad that Time’s trying to reintroduce the moral complications of withdrawal into the debate at a moment when the anti-war Narrative would prefer to ignore the messy aftermath, but this may be a case where “the story about the story” overshadows the actual, you know, story. Most of the bloggy links that I’ve seen today have gone to the piece at Time defending the decision to publish the photo, not the actual cover story about the catastrophic social backsliding to come once Islamist fanatics regain power (not to mention the inevitable retrenchment of Al Qaeda). Maybe a little too heavy on the distracting shock factor here?
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Vietnam part 2.
B Man on July 29, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Disgusting.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Like I said earlier, thanks Wikileaks for letting the Taliban get a head start on their revenge killings.
cynccook on July 29, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Feminists will rally to her side any minute now, right? Right?
sharrukin on July 29, 2010 at 10:18 PM
I’m surprised that anyone in the media, particularly Time, broke free of their one dimensional rhetoric on the war.
The enemy is the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, we need to go get them, even if they are in Pakistan.
Daemonocracy on July 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Her husband obviously didn’t hear The Cairo Speech.
rogerb on July 29, 2010 at 10:20 PM
We all know, or certainly should by now, that Islam and it’s followers are brutal. What else is new.
Tav on July 29, 2010 at 10:20 PM
It’ll be Vietnam 2…we know what the consequences of pulling out are…we always have. So why did Obama decide to put an arbitrary date on it?
This is his mess now and he made it. People are now going to be hurt and/or die because Captain Awesome pulled a clueless decision out of his butt…his modus operandi I might add.
Oh well…none of these pics will save the day now. Obama already destroyed any chance we have of making it work their…incompetence, hubris, lefty pandering…there is simply no way to fix it now. God help those people…we on the right tried until the left screwed it all up.
AUINSC on July 29, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Probably not. They are practicing how to cross their legs when the time comes for Obama to set next to them.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:21 PM
Her husband deserves a job at NASA
macncheez on July 29, 2010 at 10:22 PM
who reads time anymore?
doesn’t matter, the liberals will still support the fascist muslims every chance they get…
right4life on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Savages.
As for TIME, is their beginning effort to explain away why PBHO has continued the unnecessary war for imperialism that was started by Evil Conqueror Bush?
Bishop on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Wish those guys at Time had been as scrupulous about reporting the news before the election.
Be that as it may: Good for them. You want some reality-based community? This is reality.
Pavel on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
winner!
right4life on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
You know if this was Newsweak I would have suspected this as being pushback from the administration to those on the left that advocate untimely withdrawal. Now time isn’t much better than Newsweak, but…interesting.
Tacitus on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
How ’bout First Ladies? Michelle? Hillary? Laura? Or the Speaker of the House, even?
tree hugging sister on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Is it idealistic of me to think that when it comes to someone you’ve vowed to share your life with until the end, you should never be willing to cut off pieces of her face?
TouchingTophet on July 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM
I think her husband should be strapped to the rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle the next time NASA is searching for the crescent moon.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM
This is why I want our soldiers, marines, and sailors to kill them all. (all = Taliban)
alilianstrom on July 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM
She still is a beautiful woman. Sad that she was born in a place where evil insecure men flourish. How about the parts they cannot show: genital mutilation? All these evil people must be eradicated.
wepeople on July 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM
Like I said earlier, if this cover was during the last administration it would have gotten a big “So what!” from Arianna Huffington. As she said when sitting on Hannity and Colmes back in the day and being shown video footage of Saddam’s boys beating people, throwing people off second story buildings (so they could bring them up and do it again), cutting off tongues and fingers…….
Marcus on July 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM
OT: Obama admin hunts down more GOP donors
GM dealers, gulf fisherman, security contractors… Who’s next?
faraway on July 29, 2010 at 10:27 PM
And there are women, let alone men that want and support having a shrine to this radical Muslim culture a block or two from the WTC. W.T.F
CTSherman on July 29, 2010 at 10:27 PM
That’s Christianity your thinking about. Islam is different.
sharrukin on July 29, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Hmm, I think perhaps a cover with a picture of this woman along with a picture of a wounded soldier? That would balance things out and would, broadly speaking, show the dilemma we face.
SteveMG on July 29, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Nah. Michelle is too busy saving fat kids from Ronald McDonald.
badtemper on July 29, 2010 at 10:28 PM
This is going to happen whether or not we stay.
Google the constitutions of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
WE, the US, allowed them to write their own constitutions. And their constitutions are, thanks to our acquiescence, based on islamice SHARIA law.
I feel sorry for the lady, but the women in Afghanistan just better get used to it.
BECAUSE IT’S THE LAW OF THE FRIGGIN LAND !
BowHuntingTexas on July 29, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Amen!
The most chilling and evil thing I ever saw, short of the 9/11 attacks themselves, was a film on CNN called “Beneath the Veil” about how women were treated by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
I knew then and there that jihadi Islamists were the Enemy and had to be defeated wherever they raised their heads.
Call me a “feminist” if you have to, but I wouldn’t allow anyone to treat any living thing as badly as they do women.
Jenfidel on July 29, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Yeah when the West actually gets a chance to see a middle eastern woman not covered head to toe, a lot of them are beautiful, but, they are extremely unlucky to be living over there.
Some big bombs need to be dropped on those a-holes.
B Man on July 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM
How ’bout First Ladies? Michelle? Hillary? Laura? Or the Speaker of the House, even?
tree hugging sister on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Laura was a big supporter of Afghan women’s rights, She even visited there to meet with women’s groups.
juliesa on July 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Here is a site to see what awaits many women under fundie Islam, the girl on TIME got off easy in comparison. Beware, it’s sad sad sad.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2009/11/terrorism-thats-personal.html
Bishop on July 29, 2010 at 10:32 PM
She would have a way better live crossing the border into Arizona (yeah I know, Afghanistan and Arizona don’t share the same border) but this kind of thing doesn’t happen here….yet.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Islamic barbarism is not an argument for staying. It is a constant that respects no western values. The Russians discovered that Afghanistan pointless. Other powers discovered the same thing. When islamists kill their own children right in the United States, why would they behave themselves in Afghanistan just because the US keeps a force there? If anything, this photo is proof that no outside power can make anything of that wasteland.
keep the change on July 29, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Maybe Time will now re-vist The Killing Fields. Or would than shame too many on the left?
GarandFan on July 29, 2010 at 10:32 PM
“How ’bout First Ladies? Michelle? Hillary? Laura? Or the Speaker of the House, even?
tree hugging sister on July 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM
”
Laura Bush has in fact been (quietly) supporting women’s issues in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
cs89 on July 29, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Or unborn babies, male or female.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:34 PM
If they put a dead GI on the cover only about half the country would be upset and most of them would never see the cover. I am suprised Time did this. This is going to hit the lefties where they can’t deny reality. They’ll have to think about what is going to happen to all the Feminazis when the Jihadists take over America.
JimP on July 29, 2010 at 10:35 PM
This cover would never have been run if a Republican were president.
SouthernGent on July 29, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio over at The Long War Journal report …
J_Crater on July 29, 2010 at 10:36 PM
It’s not our responsibility to change that world. Our troops’ blood is only to be spilled for our country and her interests.
Take the gloves off and crush the Taliban for America’s sake, and that will also end the barbarity these women endure.
goddessoftheclassroom on July 29, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Now that is the truth! It would have been wounded soldiers and civilians on the cover, which they did already during that period.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:38 PM
“The Tal-EEEE-baan acted stupidly…”
Time for a halal summit…
Khun Joe on July 29, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Yes, and it’s about the only kind of argument left, a tearjerker, and it ignores the fact that the Taliban are not that much different from other Muslims, particularly in Afghanistan. This whole thing basically says that Taliban are bad, and those who aren’t Taliban are good. Well, news flash, they are pretty much all bad. For every one woman brutalized from outside her Muslim family by Taliban there are probably dozens brutalized from within.
On the matter of Afghanistan, people should be listening more to realistic rational people like Jack Devine, while listening less to utter fools like David Petreuas who thinks he can magically make rivers run backwards if he has enough hundreds of billions and enough Soldier’s and Marine’s bodies and limbs to boil and bake in his COIN stew cauldron.
The U.S. military will not achieve anything resembling victory in Afghanistan, no matter how noble the objective and heroic the effort.
It’s time to face this reality.
Tav on July 29, 2010 at 10:40 PM
..more; devestating and heartbreaking..
Do not forget this the next time that piece of festering camel afterbirth bows and kisses the ring of some sheik or apologizes to the Muslim world for this country or packs one of those folks up into space in the shuttle.
The War Planner on July 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM
As I said when this was up in the headlines:
tree hugging sister on July 29, 2010 at 10:45 PM
I think Tav is right.
This isn’t the Taliban.
This is Islam.
The same things are happening to Islamic women in western countries.
sharrukin on July 29, 2010 at 10:45 PM
From my readings and understanding of Islam this horrific act is simply not common or accepted practice in much of the Muslim world. Women in Egypt or Jordan, for example, are not brutalized and treated so horribly like the Taliban did and wishes to do. The Taliban is a particularly vicious and extreme sect of Islam.
Sorry, to say that this type of mistreatment will go on no matter what we do is simply, in my opinion, not accurate.
SteveMG on July 29, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Yup.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:48 PM
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No. It’s what happens when there is no law or just the law of the jungle, and it will happen more and more often if we do pull out of Afghanistan.
LincolntheHun on July 29, 2010 at 10:48 PM
And why exactly are we allowing a mosque to be built at ground zero? To show that we tolerate islamists here?
clnurnberg on July 29, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Time needs an infusion of cash to stay afloat. Simple as that. They don’t give a damn about what will happen to the Afghan people when America leaves
SaigonKabul.Randy
williars on July 29, 2010 at 10:50 PM
I believe the term is submission.
Inanemergencydial on July 29, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Because we must extend our hands…oops I mean wrists out in the name of PC.
Electrongod on July 29, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Savages. That is our enemy. Took a beautiful young girl and mutilated her because the imaginary bastard god of their little death cult demanded it in the name of Muslim “honor”.
Silly sir or madame. Feminists are too busy fighting the real enemies out there – people like Sarah Palin, for example, for endorsing dangerous philosophies like being pro-life.
Vyce on July 29, 2010 at 10:59 PM
I remember Laura Bush trying to bring the Afghan women’s plight into the public eye. Apparently before the Taliban started running everything there were professional women in Afghanistan and many supported their families because their husbands had died fighting the Soviets. When the Taliban came in these women had to stay in their homes and their sons were required to beg for money and food for the family. The media kept talking about the burkas while ignoring that these women were virtual prisoners.
Cindy Munford on July 29, 2010 at 11:00 PM
I know it’s repetitive and a hopeless question, but … comments, feminists?
You know what, I know what they’ll say. I’m more interested in what REAL feminists will say.
Jewels on July 29, 2010 at 11:01 PM
For those who argue that this type of treatment of women will occur no matter what we do, I suggest you read the story about the enormous changes for females that have occurred since the Taliban were defeated.
No, it’s not terrific for women but it’s a damned lot better.
SteveMG on July 29, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Lord, give me just five minutes in the same room with the man who hurt this woman. Less if You want. And send him to Hell when I’m done. And me, too, for killing him, if You wish. Amen.
TXUS on July 29, 2010 at 11:05 PM
What else can you expect from illiterate, 7th Century barbaric camel-scrubbers?
Dave R. on July 29, 2010 at 11:07 PM
These are from Pakistan. Our so-called allies in the war.
Bishop posted…
http://blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2009/11/terrorism-thats-personal.html
The same garbage is going on in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, Algeria, and elsewhere. It is also starting to happen more frequently in the west.
sharrukin on July 29, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Sorry, did you read the story?
SteveMG on July 29, 2010 at 11:14 PM
For those of you who would like to believe that the Taliban are extremists hijacking Islam, just a small numbered aberration in Afghanistan and that the vast majority of Afghan Muslim males are not at all like that, then ponder this question.
Where are they?
Tav on July 29, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Sorry to pop your bubble.
From the new Afghanistan constitution (as I’d recommended looking it up – which, I’m assuming you did not):
The above in the preamble AND first “chapter” of Afghanistan’s constitution say to me …
islamic Sharia law.
And we, The United States of America, allowed this.
The ladies in Afghanistan just need to get used to it with or without us there.
BowHuntingTexas on July 29, 2010 at 11:18 PM
With the Islamic law constitution that we sponsored, we sold their bodies and maybe our souls.
Luka on July 29, 2010 at 11:26 PM
That does it for me – if they ever tolerate Sharia law here in the US I will not submit – the guns are coming out. This is barbaric and horrid.
fossten on July 29, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Exactly.
We should have gone in with the Anne Coulter attitude of killing their leaders and converting them all the Christianity. Or, roared into battle blaring “EAT PORK OR DIE” over loud speakers.
Instead, we let them write their constitution and look what we’ve gotten.
We didn’t let Japan write their constitution, but we bend over backwards for Islamic countries.
Oh well.
BowHuntingTexas on July 29, 2010 at 11:38 PM
Maybe this will help.
Cindy Munford on July 29, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Yes, the new Afghan government is based on Islam, but it’s secular and not run by clerics, as it was under the Taliban and it does not enforce shari’a, as the Taliban did.
It’s a huge improvement on what they had before we liberated the place.
Quit minimizing the accomplishments over 1,000 of our soldiers paid for with their lives and others have bought with their limbs!
Ask these ladies when they had more rights–under the Taliban or now.
They’ll gladly say now.
Jenfidel on July 29, 2010 at 11:42 PM
The Left’s cognitive dissonance meter just red lined.
Bruno Strozek on July 29, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Are we trying to eradicate Islam in Afghanistan? No? Then what are we doing there? And how will our presence prevent more mutilation?
July 10 on July 29, 2010 at 11:46 PM
It’s beyond my comprehension that such evil is being done to women under Sharia law.
After viewing the link, I will not sleep well tonight.
GrannyDee on July 29, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Come on, everyone knows the most serious global threat to womanhood are all those Rethuglicans who want to pass laws requiring 13-year-olds to get a parent’s consent before they can undergo elective surgery.
Bruce MacMahon on July 29, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Barbarians acting barbarically, who besides the willfully ignorant are surprised by this?
While we’re amending the Constitution to end “anchor babies”, perhaps this amendment should be considered as well.
Rebar on July 29, 2010 at 11:50 PM
No Islam, 98% less brutality.
ray on July 29, 2010 at 11:56 PM
This just goes to show that we should be fighting to win, not to maintain political acceptability.
This is war. The goal of war is to make the other side do what you want, when you want. To impose our will on them. I don’t see us imposing much of anything besides our dollars and blood on these guys.
We need to go total war on these clowns. No more “rules of engagement”. There’s only 1 rule in war, WIN! If that means smashing into P-stan, so be it.
Its time to go heavy or go home.
Iblis on July 29, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Geez, who pissed in Time’s cornflakes?
First they admit Rush may have been right about the (over-) hyped environmental damage from the gulf oil spill, now this.
Purple Fury on July 30, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Islam promotes terroristic misogyny.
That our Western leaders continue to ignore the intolerant, violent, imperialistic essence of Islam (SEE: David Cameron) is the most dangerous weapon the Islamic maniacs haven against us.
Read the damned Koran.
And I do mean damned.
profitsbeard on July 30, 2010 at 12:09 AM
Well, they are on the verge of going out, so maybe they are angling for more readers.
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 12:09 AM
When you realize that Mohammed on his death bed told followers to kill all the nonbelievers, it’s no surprise that a Muslim man would punish a woman for not behaving properly. She’s lucky to still be alive. Good for Time for showing the starry-eyed liberals what Islam truly is and why Islamists must be defeated.
chai on July 30, 2010 at 6:34 AM
This practice is not uncommon. At one of the FOBs we supported, the medics told us of a woman whose husband had done this to her because he couldn’t get her pregnant. She shamed him in the eyes of his family.
hawkdriver on July 30, 2010 at 6:58 AM
Its a good story and a legitimate aspect to any talk of pulling out.
rob verdi on July 30, 2010 at 7:23 AM
hawkdriver,
in other words he was impotent.
rob verdi on July 30, 2010 at 7:24 AM
Where was that picture of a mutilated Iraqi during a similar decision point a few years ago? Instead, we saw pictures of Abu Ghraib. We saw accusations of atrocities committed by American troops. Let’s imagine a world with a President McCain. Would we see the same woman’s photograph in Time Magazine? I doubt it. Instead, Time would be wetting themselves over alleged American torture and McCain’s hypocrisy after being a POW. Glad you finally understand what’s at stake, Time. Too bad you didn’t see it in 2006 in Iraq.
rhombus on July 30, 2010 at 7:32 AM
And Hillary is too busy placing the United States on a US State Department list as a “slave nation”…a nation participating in prostitution, forced labor and pole dancers.
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/06/14/unreal-hillary-clinton-adds-u-s-to-state-departments-list-of-slave-nations/
manateespirit on July 30, 2010 at 7:39 AM
Looks like the JOURNOLISTAS have been given marching orders to shore up the war front.
joshlbetts on July 30, 2010 at 8:02 AM
Time to start taking some of these so-called-husbands out into the desert and stake them to the ground. Then supply the wives with some very sharp knives.
The ONLY way to treat rabid animals is as rabid animals.
Yoop on July 30, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Afghanistan is far behind in terms of economic development compared to the countries you mentioned. It also lacks functional state apparatus. Moreover, there you have an entire generation that grew up during war. Under such circumstances, savage behaviors are a given among any people. Take Liberia a decade ago. Or Yugoslavia two decades back. Or South Asia after the American withdrawal. Men will exercise violence, with women frequently being the victims, in the absence of social constraints. To me that’s an obvious truth. I have no idea why some here think that a coherent belief system is a core requirement to violent behaviors.
year_of_the_dingo on July 30, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Finally – the media does its job and reports a real inconvenient truth.
RobCon on July 30, 2010 at 8:24 AM
I couldn’t find this in the articles linked: So, are they still married?
July 10 on July 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM
It’s not a requirement, but it helps; see Nazism, Islamism etc
July 10 on July 30, 2010 at 8:30 AM
That’s what it’s all about. This is Islam; this is shari’a law. How does that comport with your values, liberals? You’re really gung-ho about making sure Christian women can’t graduate from counseling programs because of their religious views on homosexuality, yet I have seen very little outrage or evidence that you would crack down a with a fraction of the force when it comes to Islam.
Especially the way Islam treats women.
But I forgot. So long as conservative Christians draw breath, they will always be the sole source and summit of sexism in the world. Right? Only Christians can be oppressive, abusive, and only Christian doctrine can be demeaning to women. Isn’t that what you argue on a daily basis?
Because I have made no bones about saying that when I left my Lutheran church, my (former) pastor didn’t tell my father to cut off body parts. I wasn’t ritualistically mutilated before kindergarten by my Christian parents so I’d be sexually submissive in marriage. If I left the Catholic Church tomorrow I guarantee my priest wouldn’t issue a fatwa. But why let facts get in the way of such a self-gratifying politically correct narrative? Forget Islamic militants cutting off women’s noses; the Catholic Church doesn’t allow women to be priests…stop the presses!
englishqueen01 on July 30, 2010 at 8:32 AM
Gee, I wonder what motivates people to do something like that?
RobCon on July 30, 2010 at 8:41 AM
I got skewered last year for stating this, but I think it still holds true.
Unless you have a CINC committed to victory, pull out.
I don’t relish the fact of our finest being killed because we have a president that is more worried about polls, then doing what is right.
If we are committed to win, then stay in and win…if not, I don’t want to lose one fine man for a losing cause, being orchestrated by a loser.
Nothing is more sad, or immoral, then sending a man off to face death, without a commitment that his potential sacrifice is for the good of the nation.
right2bright on July 30, 2010 at 8:48 AM
I suspect this has been linked before, but it may be worth taking another look at a Major Demographic Problem.
Radical Islam (am I being redundant?) is coming my friends.
pain train on July 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Germany 1933-45? Serbia 1980-95?
callingallcomets on July 30, 2010 at 9:15 AM
No Islam, 98% less brutality.
ray on July 29, 2010 at 11:56 PM
There will always be those who love evil.
Assange and our own Race Card the Vomit Troll illustrate that point well.
ebrown2 on July 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM
Gee, I wonder what motivates people to do something like that?
RobCon on July 30, 2010 at 8:41 AM
What motivates willfully-subhuman filth to act as apologists for them?
Radical evil, that’s what.
ebrown2 on July 30, 2010 at 9:33 AM
Coming to a Country near you.
CynicalOptimist on July 30, 2010 at 10:01 AM
The religon of peace?????
The religon of pieces (as in cut off body parts) is more like it.
DuctTapeMyBrain on July 30, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Paging Tim McGurk.
labrat on July 30, 2010 at 10:05 AM
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