Are there any brave Afghan men to forcefully take the dirty hands of the crusaders from this innocent Afghan virgin?

Ken Bigley is “executed” (the word the killers used, evidently in the belief that someone would believe this was some sort of judicial process), his head sawn off, while someone filmed. These people are not normal.

I haven’t been talking as much as I should about the details of the intelligence reform bill, which is turning rapidly into a sub rosa version of the Patriot Act II we all feared. In part this was because I have no idea which provisions are likely to pass. I’m not really sure what Congress is capable of, which is frightening by itself, and which bits will quietly die in committee. The provision for deporting people to countries where they were likely to be tortured has been replaced by one allowing the head of Homeland Security to order foreigners detained forever, with no judicial review. There’s something about letting employers have access to arrest--not conviction--records, without punishing them for passing on the info to everyone they know.

Does anyone know of a website with Afghan election posters? I’ve mentioned several of them, but I’ve only been able to read about them. The Guardian reports on a Taliban anti-election poster: “A glossy colour poster juxtaposes photos of charred American corpses swinging from a bridge in Falluja with that of a US soldier apparently frisking a burka-wearing Afghan woman.” It then asks a question that none of those undecided voters in Missouri thought to ask, “Are there any brave Afghan men to forcefully take the dirty hands of the crusaders from this innocent Afghan virgin?”

Muslims in Bangladesh demonstrate against the recent formation of what they call the satanic women’s football league.