Howdy

Folgendes kam gerade über meinen Newsticker:

Fanned by the Islamist press, Turkey is up in arms over the rape of thousands of Iraqi women and young girls by American troops. The outrage even led a man with a prosperous shop, two homes, 5 children and 2 grandchildren to blow himself up, along with a truck filled with explosives, in front of a Turkish bank -- killing 12 people. There's only one problem. The whole crisis is based on a misunderstanding. Sex therapist and sex entertainer Dr. Susan Block of Los Angeles published a political opinion piece on her Web site entitled, "The Rape of Iraq." In it she used the sexual metaphor to describe the U.S. invasion of Iraq. She wasn't writing about actual rapes. Enter Turkey's leading Islamist journal Yeni Safak, which quoted Block's column in an October 22 front-page story reporting over 4,000 "known" rapes by U.S. soldiers. The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has strongly denounced the story. And Dr. Block's response is, "I am a sex therapist and I use sexual terminology for political commentary. I did not say American troops are literally raping Iraqi women . . . I am appalled to be misquoted and even more appalled that the story inspired someone to such violence."

Read the full story on the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/004/nation/Rumors_of_rape_fan_anti_American_flames+.s...

A statement from the U.S. Embassy:
http://www.usemb-ankara.org.tr/PRESS/PRR1223.HTM

Dr. Block's essay, "Rape of Iraq", part of her "Terror Journals":
http://www.drsusanblock.com/editorial/terror/terror10.htm

Herzlicher Gruß

Arne

Als Antwort auf: 4000 nie stattgefundene Vergewaltigungen im Irak führen zu echten Morden von Arne Hoffmann am 09. Januar 2004 06:03:59:

Ich finde aber auch Nichts ueber tatsaechliche Vergewaltigungen
in Frau Blocks Online-Artikel. Ich glaube auch nicht, dass
Frau Block einen radikal-feministischen Hintergrund hat.

Nur - die Denkweise von Frau Block erinnert mich fatal an die
schon lange ueberwundene altfreudianische pseudowissenschaftliche
Scheisse. Man sagt ja zu recht: bei Freud ist Alles an den Haaren
herbeigezogen - vor Allem an den Schamhaaren.

Ich kann mir schon denken, dass dieser verquollene Artikel von
Frau Block leicht zu Missverstaendnissen fuehren kann und bei
bei prueden Menschen Kristallisationskern fuer eine Verschwoerungs-
theorie werden kann. Das Ergebnis kann furchtbar sein!