Before he arrives at the real point- that the nasty Human Rights Commission is out to martyr all Christians - Ron Bosman takes a few potshots at Islam. The Koran "treats women as sex objects", while Mohammed said "that women are genetically and legally inferior to men."

By way of contrast, Mr. B. cites the Bible on the same topic: "The wife has not power of her own body but the husband and likewise also the husband hath no power over his own body but his wife." If this demonstrates that the Bible is more enlightened than the Koran, it is not apparent from the quote, which defies interpretation.

Skipping blithely over to Afghanistan - how did we get there? -Mr. Bosman writes that there is now a law that allows men to insist on their, ahem, conjugal rights whenever it pleases them. Bosman solemnly remarks that " the feminists do not like that."

Gee, might it be that even a non-feminist wife might bristle at a law that cedes total control over her feelings and desires to the man?

It's clear that Mr. B. does not like feminists.

Ron Bosman's fundamentalism, his grim belief that we are all born hopeless sinners, that our lives are nothing but one long, apparently endless attempt to climb out of a deep, oil-slicked hole filled to the brim with the other six billion sinners, is not a vision I subscribe to. It's too dark for me and it does not fit the real world I see around me.
Geoff. Rytell
Toronto