Althouse: "When I was in prison, I thought the outside world is heaven and those who are released, they’re on their way to heaven."

July 14, 2020

"When I was in prison, I thought the outside world is heaven and those who are released, they’re on their way to heaven."

Released from prison: "I thought everyone was staring at me. Pointing their fingers toward me while whispering, as if they knew I was a prisoner, but of course it was all in my head."

From "She Went to Prison for Killing Her Husband. The Pandemic Set Her Free/Foroozan was one of nearly 20 women held in an Afghan women’s prison for murdering her spouse after years of abuse. 'Thanks to coronavirus, I am given a second chance to live'" (NYT).

19 comments:

The Crack Emcee said...: I never buy these stories anymore.

Women are just crazy enough to give men reasonable doubt.; 7/14/20, 8:11 AM
Todd said...: Very good for her (if it is true). You know the NTY "secret" reason for a story like this is due to the heat the liberal states are getting for emptying their prisons.

Now NYT, do a story on the rapists and molesters that CA let out due to coronavirus and how happy they are to get a second chance to mingle with the public, re-engage in society. and resume their "hobbies".; 7/14/20, 8:16 AM
narciso said...: and how many taliban and common criminals did they release, rhetorical.; 7/14/20, 8:52 AM
Fernandinande said...: You know the NTY "secret" reason for a story like this is due to the heat the liberal states are getting for emptying their prisons.

I thought the nyt's reason for reporting on a unimportant foreign country was to demonstrate that the US isn't much worse than shit-holes like Afghanistan.

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; 7/14/20, 9:00 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: "Very good for her (if it is true). You know the NTY "secret" reason for a story like this is due to the heat the liberal states are getting for emptying their prisons."

Exactly right. Take a sympathetic example and use it as a justification for any egregious lunacy. We're living through a society-wide instance of this right now. Satanic day-care hysteria for everybody!; 7/14/20, 9:09 AM
Wince said...: She shot a man in Kabul... just to watch him die?; 7/14/20, 9:16 AM
rcocean said...: SHe was given a 2nd chance to live. To bad her husband wasn't.; 7/14/20, 9:18 AM
rcocean said...: Shouldn't we give killers a 2nd chance. So what if they murdered someone? Can't cry over spilt milk y'know. And if its a woman who kills her husband, shouldn't probation be good enough? After all, if a woman kills a man, you can be sure he deserved it.; 7/14/20, 9:20 AM
Todd said...: rcocean said...
SHe was given a 2nd chance to live. To bad her husband wasn't.
7/14/20, 9:18 AM

rcocean said...
Shouldn't we give killers a 2nd chance. So what if they murdered someone? Can't cry over spilt milk y'know. And if its a woman who kills her husband, shouldn't probation be good enough? After all, if a woman kills a man, you can be sure he deserved it.
7/14/20, 9:20 AM

Hence my caveat of "if it was true". Spouse abusers deserve what they get, regardless of their sex. Same with child abusers.; 7/14/20, 9:55 AM
Achilles said...: Women in Afghanistan did not always wear the full burkha.

They started wearing after US soldiers occupied Afghanistan.

You see, we would take a compound and ball everyone up. Start questioning people.

When we questioned the women sometimes(almost all the time) we saw evidence of beatings.

The men would get extra attention after that.

Then, voila!, women's faces all were covered.

I side with the woman.

My dealings with males over the age of 17 in Afghanistan would be indiscriminate.; 7/14/20, 10:36 AM
hstad said...: Blogger Todd said...Now NYT, do a story on the rapists and molesters that CA let out due to coronavirus and how happy they are to get a second chance to mingle with the public, re-engage in society. and resume their "hobbies". 7/14/20, 8:16 AM

Excellent mockery! Anything the "NYT" publishes always has a political narrative. That's why it stopped reporting news decades ago, if ever. I used to read it religiously when I lived in NYC it was still a news reporting organ back in the early '70s. Today, it's a propoganda piece for whomever is the latest cult narrative in vogue. I'm kinda surprised that AA uses so many pieces from the "NYT". But maybe AA loves fiction so much it is easier to get it quickly and more varied from the "NYT"? :); 7/14/20, 10:37 AM
Achilles said...: My favorite tidbit of knowledge from Afghanistan was that for the most part women are confined to their owner's, sorry... husband's compound until they are 40 or 50 or so.

Most compounds are 40-50 meters on a side.; 7/14/20, 10:39 AM
Tom T. said...: She killed her husband, went to prison for a while, and now she's out. I'm fine with that. No reason to insist on a life sentence.; 7/14/20, 10:41 AM
gspencer said...: Being released in a Muslim country is itself a continued form of prison.; 7/14/20, 10:50 AM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: Female privilege, as signalled by the NYT. They're letting their cultists understand that it's ok for women to domestically abuse and murder men.; 7/14/20, 11:09 AM
n.n said...: After all, if a woman kills a man, you can be sure he deserved it.

That's what they say: women's rites. She still has to prove that her Choice was executed in self-defense. It's an old-fashioned standard, but better than the alternative in the past, present, and on a forward-looking basis.; 7/14/20, 11:18 AM
Maddad said...: They seriously need to tighten things up at the NYT. It reads like she abused her husband for years before finally murdering him.; 7/14/20, 3:16 PM
Banjo said...: The New York Times shows every outward sign of being a cult. Fanaticism, fear, obedience, punishment. The Jim Jones religious aspect is missing for now, but give it time.; 7/14/20, 6:38 PM
ken in tx said...: Years ago, an older man told me, "If a man does something wrong, he is a low down sorry SOB. But if a woman does something wrong, people ask, "What did her man (father, husband, boss, etc.) do to make her do that?"; 7/14/20, 7:57 PM