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Friday, December 30, 2005The TurkeyBlog is squeamishly pro-choice, as has been noted before.Still, he respects those who are not. Which makes this story, if its implications are what they seem, rather disturbing: EU to Catholic Doctors: Thou Shalt Abort Leftist groups have complained that some new EU members – namely Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia – are so overwhelmingly Catholic that far too few doctors are willing to perform abortions. This makes it hard for women who want an abortion to find a doctor who has no conscientious objection. In such cases, the EU experts say, doctors should be forced to abort:In what other circumstances would the EU sanction a person being forced to commit murder as part of his duty? 
posted by gbarto at 11:31 AM Thursday, December 29, 2005Muslim family values?So a man in Pakistan killed his daughters and his adult stepsister lest they become adulterers one day. Will Muslims unite in condemning this loon and the other Muslim men so lacking in honor that the slaughter or weak and powerless women is their only means of validation? Or will they sit on their hands? If Muslims stay their tongues in the faces of such horrors, we must assume that they approve. After all, they surely don't so doubt the power of the word of Allah as to fear that speaking the truth about these abuses of His name would diminish, rather than elevate, His glory. Do they? The Koran opens with the phrase, "In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate." These slaughters show neither mercy nor compassion except in the vein in which Andrea Yates drowned her children. Confronted with such a person in the United States, the question was whether she was a monster or a madwoman. A jury ruled for the former. If Muslims, by contrast, are torn between calling their Andrea Yates overzealous or a man of supreme devotion, it is safe to judge that religion's adherents sick, whatever the value of the abstract but unpracticed Islam that succeeded Judaism and Christianity as the third major monotheistic faith tradition to spring from the cradle of civilization. One would hope to soon hear the leading voices for the Islamic faith speak out against this horror. The amount of time and teaching they spend on this will ultimately be shown to be proportional to the degree in which they regard woman as human beings... and human beings as creations of Allah's will, rather than clay vessels to be smashed and strewn by Nietzchean superman who have replaced God with themselves.
posted by gbarto at 10:18 PM North Korea says no to UN food aid If it turns out that politically problematic areas run short of food after this, will the UNHRC do so much as issue a report? I guess they were less upset with Saddam for booting their inspectors than us for doing something about it, so... If people starve in North Korea this winter, prepare to hear about the evils of the Stalinist foreign policy of... George W Bush, of course. (If we'd been nicer about letting them have nukes, they wouldn't have had to clamp down...)
posted by gbarto at 1:20 PM Heh. (For once, the TurkeyBlog is in the mainstream)
posted by gbarto at 1:19 PM Monday, December 26, 2005If this Iraq the Model post is to be believed, the Iraqis are already close to the post-war Italians in efficiency in getting together a government. More importantly, they're way ahead of the French in 1789 and 1848 - neither a state organized Reign of Terror nor a democratically elected tyranny seem imminent. Things aren't great. But there's hope.
posted by gbarto at 3:57 PM A Verizon Testimonial There are those bloggers who use a long weekend to get away from it all, including the blog. And there are those who throw themselves into blogging, heartened by more free time to write and think things out on paper, as it were. I'm usually in the second category. But ours was a rainy Christmas, and windy too. And living in a house in the mountains still serviced by Verizon wires, my connection speeds dropped to 1 Kbps. So blogging was light, and hearth and home time increased. Thanks, Verizon
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