Currently,
many of the citizens of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and, oh yes,
Texas are opposed to those groups of religious terrorists and oppressors
commonly called “Taliban.” These Americans
find fault with the extreme nature of Islam practiced and promoted by the
Taliban, which prohibits any religious faith other than Islam in Afghanistan. The same religious tyranny exists in Iran,
Pakistan Saudi Arabia, and other Middle Eastern nations.
The
apparently more civilized regions of the world are joined in condemnation of
the attempted execution of a 14-year-old woman who knowingly risked her life in
order to promote education for young women in Pakistan.
However, many
of the same Americans who loudly condemn the Taliban for basing the culture of millions
upon the narrow, bigoted, and exclusive interpretation of Islam. Millions of people live in nations, which are
trapped under a legal system derived from the harshest interpretation of Islam. Our good Americans find this offensive to the
point that they often demand our government export democracy and religious
freedom to these nations. They seem
willing to overlook the reality of governmental change; it has to happen from
within or it is only a cosmetic effect.
While a 14-year-old
Pakistani woman, demands that her government guarantee the right for women to
become educated, our citizen are demanding that they be allowed to institute a
theocracy, oppressing religious minorities.
It shouldn’t surprise me that this is happening in Texas It shouldn’t
surprise me that there is a lateral link to football and cheerleading. It shouldn’t surprise me that the Texas
version of the Taliban is involved.
A group of
cheerleaders from a public high school in small east Texas town has claimed
that they have a legal right to display Christian Bible excerpts at football
games on public property. They are
claiming that not being allowed to do so will generate irreversible pain and suffering. They are being supported by the Texas
governor, Rick Perry.
The school
system should be blocking this under the establishment clause of the 1st
Amendment. But Texas is home to as any
religious extremists as is Afghanistan.
And Texas apparently cares no more about the quality of education for
its females than does Pakistan or Afghanistan.
In Pakistan,
young women fight and die for the right to become educated. In Texas, they demand the attention of a
deity at a local athletic event, never realizing what the loss of a game
actually demonstrates.
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