caption anyone?
They are accusing her of lying by nipping and tucking a few details, such as the tiny fact that she was not the founder of the school but more its hijacker, for she apparently moved that lofty institution from the Afghan Women Ministry, where it originally was, to her house, a necessary move to make it a "for profit" institution. Not that the other women involved are in it for charity. One "consultant" was paid $ 70,000 over two years.
The women are also raising doubts about Deborah Rodriguez’s sob stories of abused Afghani women whom she saved. One such story is of a woman who lost her virginity, but was saved from disgrace by using a cloth stained with Rodriguez's blood on her wedding night (Afghani mothers probably would have used chicken blood to execute the scheme, but that's sooo primitive). The women are saying they don't remember any such women around. Rodrigueze counters with "I changed a few details to protect Afghani women." In other words, there is no way to verify her account because that would endanger Afghani women who would be either shamed or murdered. Now, who is so uncharitable as to want to do that to them!!
(Thanks Molly)
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"What is this pickly object, a torture device", screamed one Afgani woman, scared and bracing her burka. Crazy Deb graciously explained to her, and to the other alarmed women, "The benifits of a comb will help you progress from your stone age."
Sort of long but I couldn't help myself.
The best part is that she married some kind of warlord. So, I guess it is fair to say she wants to be more then a charity worker, but a war profitier.
...uhmm...at her western mastery of all "eastern traditions"; woundn't an arrogant American woman raise suspicion if she was bleeding from her hands in this after wedding ritual?
In the begining these Afgani women could not pick up their hair curlers with out sobing and breaking down into tears and remembering what life was like before this American white women came and told them about electricity. Crazy Deb explained, "It has energy like the bombs exploding and we use it to dry wet hair."
So, another thing from the article I found interesting was the fact that the publishing experts were so understanding of crazy deb's embelishments.
Doesnt fiction and memior contradict each other?
"Hoping to elude paparazzi, Britney Spears flew to this remote village in Afghanistan for emergency scalp reconstruction. Spears has also reportedly been in contact with several adoption agencies in Kabul."
"His choice of an all-woman cast is just one of many hilarious twists livening up Siddiq Barmak's satirical remake of the 1931 classic, Frankenstein."
"Emerging from a 30-year retirement, Leila Khaled shows she is willing as ever to disguise her notorious beauty in order to avoid the attention of airport security officials."
"Surgeons work desperately to save the life of this young girl, a victim of what appears to be an entirely new generation of cluster bomb, although colorful and deadly as ever.
thank you all for your captions. I'm sorry for the delayed response. It's that time of the year...
But I really enjoyed them. I had some of my friends try choose the winning caption and they couldn't agree.
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very good observation about the publisher's open mindedness. That was the attitude of the NY publisher of Norma Khouri's fake memoir. They were contacted and warned yet they insisted on standing behind the book.
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