Dois bons artigos

Minority Death Match: Jews, Blacks, And The “Post-Racial” Presidency, de Naomi Klein

Twice Branded: Western Women in Muslim Lands, de Judy Bachrach

Sobre o segundo, ainda hei de fazer uns considerandos. Para lá de dizer, que se aquilo não é uma mentalidade que merece ser combatida e desprezada, então não sei que vos diga. E nem falo das ideologias que dali saem. Se eu fosse holandesa, votava Geert Wilders. É simplista? Que se lixe.

P.S.: antigamente estas coisas só me punham em estado de feminismo.

É tão fácil falar

Eminent Afghan and international figures had encouraged citizens to defy the Taliban and vote in the elections. Yet, as a casualty in the process, Mr Mohammed and his friends say he has received no official support (On his way to the polling station he was held by Taliban fighters, beaten brutally, and then had his nose and ears slashed off.).

Mr Mohammed said his family had borrowed 20,000 Afghanis (around £250) from a local money lender to tide them over and buy medicine for him in the capital, Kabul.

"We have to pay back 40,000 Afghanis in three months," he said. "I do not know how we are going to do that, I think we will have to sell things. I do not know when I'll work again.

"Poor people suffer in this country, I do not know whether the elections will change that. I do not think I will try to vote again, I am now very frightened."

Tirado daqui.