This
article in
The New York Times describes a new low in human behavior:
A female suicide bomber in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, held a young child’s hand as she set off her explosives among a group of women and children receiving emergency food aid.
It is hard to imagine that woman and I are members of the same species. Pretty clearly her culture and mine share few values. When a bunch of college kids form an
organization to argue for "western values," this sort of news item enables me to see their viewpoint.