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Sunday, April 05, 2009

From the department of WTF

this report on a Jewish fundamentalist press erasing women from news photos.

The ultra-Orthodox press, bound by strict laws regarding modesty which demand that women be obscured to the greatest extent possible, prefers as a general rule to refrain from carrying images of females.

So they digitally blot out the faces of women cabinet ministers, or any other women, who happen to be shamelessly flaunting their faces in public.

Remember who ran this racket in Afghanistan? The Taliban.

Remember the post-9/11 frenzy to justify the US bombardment and invasion of Afghanistan, on the bizarre pretext of liberating Afghani women? Can't wait to hear the calls for the US to drop bombs on Israel for the same reason.

Suspect I'll be waiting a long, long time.........

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