Lots of people must have been lined up for the opportunity to waterboard Hitchens. Or at least watch.

While I’m sure that it’s not really the greatest way to spend an afternoon, I can’t imagine it could be much worse than actually having to read Vanity Fair. In fact, I will be having this done to me (the waterboarding, not reading VF - that would be inhumane!) next summer. Next year, I will (most likely) have the chance to embed in Af’stan with the cool kids, and I wish to have certain things done for shits and giggles. I wish to be waterboarded. And tasered (though not at the same time, because holy crap! just think of the current!). Wet t-shirt contest in the desert!!

Why?

Because if a soft wussy Canadian chick can have it done and survive, then a blood-thirsty terrorist who trained in the barren mountains of Pakistan can bloody well handle it.

Like Hitch himself, I imagine there would be quite a lineup of people wanting to do this to me. If they’re willing to travel to a war zone to do, they are more than welcome.

The abused woman Nazia, lying on her hospital bed and uncertain about her future, told that her husband, twice her age, had suspicions about her behavior. She added ‘I swore to him many times that I was faithful to him but he did not believed. He used to beat me. A few days before Eid, he shaved my head and beat me severely. On the first day of the Eid, he cut my ears, then my nose, then damaged my teeth and beat me until my hands and legs were broken.’

‘I was second wife of Mumtaz. The first wife was already killed by him’ she added with a flow of tears from her eyes.

Such civilized people. Muslims will happily bore you with tales of how Muhammed (the pedophile/murderer) liberated women and Islam gave them all kinds of rights that other religions don’t give. However, most other religions that I know of at least allow a woman to live. And not be mutilated. Or circumcised.

But hey, it’s a religion of peace.

H/t: Sondra K