Is it racist to condemn fanaticism? (Listen up Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi and those Democrats who don't get that you can NOT talk to these fanatics: " Our abject refusal to judge between civilisation and barbarism, and between enlightened rationalism and theocratic fundamentalism, endangers and condemns the victims of Islamic tyranny. " You rule Dr. Chesler! ) How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam By Phyllis Chesler Once I was held captive in Kabul. I was the bride of a charming, seductive and Westernised Afghan Muslim whom I met at an American college. The purdah I experienced was relatively posh but the sequestered all-female life was not my cup of chai — nor was the male hostility to veiled, partly veiled and unveiled women in public. When we landed in Kabul, an airport official smoothly confiscated my US passport. “Don’t worry, it’s just a formality,” my husband assured me. I never saw that passport again. I later learnt that this was routinely done to ...