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	Those Who Rule Women Rule Their World By Laina Farhat-Holzman Santa Cruz Sentinel May 10, 2008 http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9218301 From antiquity, those who organized societies, religions and cults knew that they must have total control over women — the childbearers — if they are to have a future. From the advent of agriculture, which produced sufficient wealth to support civilization, women and children became the valuable property of the group's leadership. Women were controlled by force beating when uncooperative, by brainwashing "religious" indoctrination, and through repeated impregnation until they were either worn out or dead. It is difficult for us in the developed world to imagine what this horror was like until we are confronted by contemporary aberrations such as the fundamentalist Mormon cult in Texas. Each day, worse details come out of that gulag, run by delusional men who think of themselves as gods. Unfortunately, this is not a unique case, but has tendrils and roots elsewhere. Time Magazine, May 5, proclaimed the raid on this polygamist sect as "tension between religion and the law." This is a politically correct piece of nonsense. By dwelling on the "separation of children from mothers," they ignore the real issues: violent sexual abuse of girl and boy children and the brainwashing of women, who seem to be demonstrating a Stockholm Syndrome, trying to protect their jailors. The authorities cannot figure out who are the parents of these children, not only because the mothers and children are uncooperative, but because the incest is so convoluted that it would take a flowchart to begin to unscramble the mess. Each day, there is more information released about not only pregnant early teen girls, but boys with badly healed broken bones and some indication of sexual abuse as well. And why not? When a handful of cult leaders have the power to do exactly as they like, they do it. The New Mexico police have just removed three children from another cult compound, run by "church leader" Wayne Bent, who says God anointed him messiah. Religious freedom does not trump human-rights abuses and the devastating of children. Iran, another country run by a theocratic mafia, has, since its revolution, reduced the status of women from that of full citizens to "protected" property. The authorities do great battle against anything that smacks of feminism, such as their latest campaign against clothing that reveals too much and toys such as the Barbie Doll that will infect girl children with western values. Young women accused of adultery or fornication can be punished by whipping, or, in some out-of-sight villages, execution. There are pictures on the web of these executions. Finally, there is the bizarre case of the sterling citizen in Amstetten, Austria, who kept his daughter locked up for 24 years in a dungeon, raping and impregnating her seven times. Nobody knew anything, eh? How did he manage to bring food there without being noticed? Or clothing for his daughter and the three of the children locked up with her? Who delivered these babies? Who emptied the trash? I find this as unbelievable as those people who lived downwind of the concentration camp furnaces who knew nothing about what was going on. It doesn't compute. The real question is how could a modern Austrian man think that enslaving his daughter was his right? Why is enslavement of women still so tempting to the sociopaths among us? A message to you troglodytes of a hideous past: Modern countries treat their women as fellow citizens. And the police arresting them and sometimes women judges trying them deserve our support. This kind of "freedom of religion" does not warrant sympathy. Perhaps one solution is to elect more women to government, along with the good men who believe in the equal partnership of men and women. Then throwbacks to antiquity might take note that they will no longer have a free reign. And somebody needs to teach these girls living in the boonies that they are human, not baby factories and handmaidens. The work of creating a just world is not done yet. Laina Farhat Holzman is a historian, lecturer and author. Contact her at Lfarhat102@aol.com
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