Death for just TALKING about women's rights?!

Parwez Kambakhsh (right) with his lawyer, Mohammad Afzal Nuristani (photo: Rahamat Gul/AP)

Parwez Kambakhsh, a 24-year-old Afghan journalism student, was originally sentenced to death for "blasphemy" for an article he had shown to others discussing women's rights under Islam. The court kindly overturned that decision, and his sentence is now 20 YEAR IN PRISON.

Laura King reports for the Los Angeles Times.

American Female Soldiers and Sexual Assault

The Associated Press reported today that 15% of all women soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan reported being sexually assaulted while serving. That is just what has been REPORTED. I started to do some further research, but I feel particularly troubled by this issue am unable to properly articulate my thoughts. I will rather send you off to some links....

http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=11162

http://www.feministing.com/archives/009855.html

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/07/women_in_military/