Amanda is wanky:

I’d add that by multiculturalist standards, lynchings in the South are beyond criticism because it was economically depressed white people acting out their aggression. We won’t sign onto the idea that murdering black people is an appropriate way to work out ill feelings (and rightly of course), so why is oppressing women an acceptable behavior?

The modesty requirements on Afghani women are deadly, of course. They cannot get medical treatment under Taliban rule and they die.

Is lynching women by proxy something we have to accept?

And what are my thoughts on burqas?

The Taliban is evil,yes, but let's not use symbols of cultures we know nothing about as throwaway jokes. Our culture has plenty of ready made and fine symbols we can use without stepping in the minefield of being all concerned about Afghani women for our own purposes.