Iraq: Car Bomb Explodes in Assyrian Town

Bartilla, after the explosion (more photos in the link provided)

The news appeared two days ago:

A car bomb exploded today in Bartilla, near St. George Church. A dozen people were injured, five have been hospitalized. Dozens of homes and shops were damaged by the blast. Witnesses report a Mazda exploded at approximately 12 PM.On Christmas day, 2009 Bartilla was attacked by a group of Shabak Shiites, who attempted to enter the Church of St. Mary, demanding to perform the Shiite rituals of self-flagellation inside the church.

via Car Bomb Explodes in Assyrian Town in North Iraq.

There is an ongoing campaign in Iraq against Christians, with nearly no reflection on MSM. On past days, a deacon was wounded by gunfire in Mosul and a Catholic student kidnapped.

Afghanistan: barbaric law passed against women’s rights

This is an update on this story:

Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting  Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised to review.

The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.

“It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying ‘blood money’ to a girl who was injured when he raped her,” the US charity Human Rights Watch said.

Where is the “international outrage”? Have you seen Ban Ki-Moon condemning Afghanistan for passing this law? Me neither.

Ms Karokhail has a truly hard task ahead in fighting for women rights. This is tragic but it’s not something unforseen or shocking, since the Constitution included the provision that “no law may contradict the beliefs and provisions of Islam“.