Early reviewers of the newest set of Carl Douglass books, The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast Trilogy, challenge the author because of the gritty, even frightening, reality of the subject matter. A dominant theme in the first book of the trilogy, Though They Come From the Ends of the Earth, is the gross maltreatment of women—specifically the infliction of FGM [Female Genital Mutilation]—on girls in the Middle-East and Africa. It was the author’s purpose to bring the subject to light in a striking way. In that book, the protagonist is a single victim, and the horrors of the practice are starkly presented in that one fictional girl’s experience. Even if she were the only victim of the practice–which is carried out in the name of religion—it would be heart wrenching enough. But, the fact is there are some 148 million women living in the world today who have been victims. We have become inured to such mistreatment. After all, it happens “over there” to “people not like us”, and we do not like to think about it; so, we turn our eyes and ears away. There was a time when we acted as a nation similarly to the barbarism of slavery and accepted the platitudes offered by the slave owners. Similarly, the people of the United States were largely aware of the evils of polygamy and entered into a quasi-acceptance of the religious rights excuses underpinning the practice. As recently as 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States told us that polygamy—as long as it does not include more than one actual legal marriage certificate—is all right, one more example of our growing resignation to and acceptance of a level of preventable mistreatment of a subsection of our population—women.
In the next BLOGPOST, the author will present a brief exposition on what is probably the most egregious current example of this descent into acceptance of a manifest evil: elective abortion. continued…