Now, if the rapist was not an exotic Taliban but a European male, would the same thought process occur??? Perhaps our American Left shall look at the twisted character of the European Left BEFORE the remain in bed with their ideology...
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3946 >>> Though de Rijke was angry with the Dutch and Belgian authorities, she told >>> the Dutch media in interviews given after her release that she was not >>> angry with her abductors. “I do not want to depict the Taliban as monsters. >>> I am not angry with Ghazi Gul. After all, he let me live,” she said. About >>> the rape ordeal she declared that though the experience had been horrible, >>> she was also shown respect. “It’s not black and white. These things can >>> exist side by side. That doesn’t mean that I’m suffering from Stockholm >>> syndrome.” Some of her colleagues, however, tend to disagree. Newspaper columnist Elma Drayer wrote in Trouw (14 May) that de Rijke’s case was a “classic example of Stockholm syndrome – the phenomenon in which the victims afterwards tell us that the culprits had noble motives and could not help doing what they did.” In his speech in parliament last week, Geert Wilders argued that the entire Dutch elite is suffering from Stockholm syndrome and behaves in a fashion similar to Joanie de Rijke. Rather than trying to refute Wilders, the Dutch establishment attacked him, accusing him of “immorally abusing de Rijke’s ordeal for his own political goals.” De Rijke, too, said she was appalled at Wilders’ statement. “I did feel angry because of the rape,” she explained, “what I tried to make clear was that the acts of the Taliban cannot be reduced to rape. The fact that I wanted to stress that aspect of my feelings is not the same as the Stockholm syndrome people like Wilders like to talk about. In a war situation people seem only able to think in black and white. I wanted to refine the story. A person is not a monster because he calls himself Taliban.” Her reaction confirms precisely what Wilders was trying to say. In reality the Taliban are not monsters because they call themselves Taliban, but because they behave like monsters. People like de Rijke, however, no longer judge people by their behavior and their actions, but condone them for the noble motives which they imagine have driven them to commit their acts. As Wilders said, “They are so blinded by their own ideology that they turn a blind eye to the truth.” This attitude led Joanie de Rijke to travel to Afghanistan in the first place, with the aim of interviewing Taliban terrorists who had killed ten French soldiers. This attitude leads her editor to question whether the Taliban who abducted and raped de Rijke are “real Taliban” because “real Taliban do not behave that way.” --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
