Facing the Music

The atavistic Wahhabi former rulers of Afghanistan banned among other things music. They forced men to grow beards, but their most fierce animosity was reserved for women. I read on ABC's morning crawl that Taliban had been detained for an acid attack on women and girls who they had caught in the cardinal offense of education. The punishment for the Jihadi perpetrators of this crime against humanity should be swift and certain justice perhaps the same as the Nazi war criminals at Biskupia Gorka. But then a more sardonic and long lasting consequence came to mind. The acid throwers should be subjected to hearing the collected works of Andrea Dworkin read to them by Pashtoon speaking females who resemble the arch-feminist and are unveiled and clad in Western dress twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for the rest of their lives. Maybe an Irving Berlin score could accompany the readings.