As Americans ponder the world, it is sometime hard to imagine just how weird things can be elsewhere. I was just reminded of that when I watched a report about the liberation of Gao, a city in Mali. The city had been ruled for the last nine months by jihadists who had imposed strict Islamic rule under their interpretation of Islam. They were expelled from the city over the weekend by Mali forces with substantial help from the French. In any event, according to the report, during the jihadi control of Gao, women were forbidden to wear glasses. Now I know that the Islamists are against educating women, but now we find that they also do not want women to be able to see properly. It is just unbelievable. The truth is that the Islamists are no better than a plague upon those whom they rule.
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