RAWA Post -

Here's a link to a historically significant event: RAWA and other supporters celebrating International Women's Day, on March 8th in Kabul.

Those look like 2000 very brave, very admirable people. A beautiful scene.

Some might say that they have us to thank for removing the Taliban government that would have forbidden such a gathering at all in that country. That would be valid if it weren't for the case that (once again) we in the West were to a great degree responsible for setting up the Taliban in the first place. Second of all, ... well I could go on all day.

Just refrain from dislocating your shoulder while you're patting yourself on the back about Afghanistan, Canadians.

And, anyway, while me might want to be smug about our contribution to the liberation of Afghan women so that they can celebrate International Women's Day like that, we mustn't forget that in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, police brutalized several women, injuring three, in their attempt to arrest Jaggi Singh. Mr. Singh was threatening the existence of civilization by participating in the Montreal march for International Women's Day. As this participation in a political event was a violation of the unconstitutional restrictions placed on him, the police had no choice but to order everyone onto the sidewalk and then charge the participants, throw women aside, punching them, to get to Singh before he could destroy Canadian values more than he already had.

Y'know, sometimes you're living history but you don't know it. Some of those people celebrating in Kabul might just have thought they were gathering with friends at a hotel, and they wouldn't have sensed that they were participants in something of world historical importance, but they were.

And those cops who made such asses of themselves in Montreal might just have thought they were busting some brown-skinned trouble maker, never realizing for a second that they were giving their country a black-eye that will never totally go away. In 2007, three countries reported the violent breaking-up of rallies for that year's International Women's Day: Pakistan, Iran, and Canada.

Who are we going to liberate next?