Margaret Atwood Quotes
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
Atwood, Margaret. Morning in the Burned House. McClelland and Stewart, 1995.
After torturing 4,500 Indians, Landa obtained sufficient confessions of the sinful contents.
Since all of God’s Truth was in the Bible, any other book was at best unnecessary and at worst blasphemous. The German practice of book burning seems to have started here in Munster. The exact same logic was used by Islamic Caliph Omar I in deciding to burn the great Library of Alexandria. See {627584}
This appeal was to the Sunni Muslims to join in the war against the Shiite Muslims and the Americans. While there have been very few rapes by American forces in the Iraq war there have been some of Sunnis against Shiite women and vice versa. Sexual defiling is such an emotive concept for Iraqi Muslims, that the few cases there have been were propaganda fodder. Note the use of the term “Crusader” to designate Christians. They are still living in world of a thousand years ago.
Many leaders of nations are in denial about this problem which exists almost everywhere. In Israel, the problem is compounded because the very orthodox Jews and Muslims both come from a tradition where women are allocated a place subservient to men in many ways and to some (like some Christians) there is a perceived duty to discipline wives and daughters. So reform involves religious tradition and theology.
The universality of the fundamentalist extremists desire to control women is a fascinating observation that appears not to have been made before.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, as well as a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the Booker Prize (twice), Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General's Award, Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
