Marginalia
September, 2007
FROM A BLOG byDigby on the murder by stoning in May of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl who had been seen with a boy of a different religious sect: "This is the fault of primitive religious fundamentalism, which across the board, in every culture, is contemptuous of women. This is why I have contempt for tribalism, fundamentalism and authoritarianism. In the end, it's always about mob rule. A gang of bullies, often at the behest of some authority figure, sends a message by publicly humiliating...
