Women and girls as chattel - or worse

Even if I didn't have a daughter, this would be heartbreaking:

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The family of a 7-year-old Afghan girl raped by two men has come forward to demand justice, defying social customs that view such attacks as a stain on the victim's honor.

We have such people in the West, maybe more than in the East, and sometimes they get away with their crimes because they are powerful or lucky or because we neglect justice. But our culture no longer establishes an ethos that degrades women in this indefensible way. Even in Charlestown or Dorchester or the Angiulos' neighborhood of Providence, where the police hear only silence, a crime such as this would be avenged.

The way to subvert radical Islam is through women. They know they're oppressed. Ask the women in Saudi Arabia, our "friend". Or, go back in time not so long and ask how English and American women lived under the rule of thumb, for example.