Possession

A BBC news report today informed me that young women are routinely kidnapped off the streets of Chechnya, forced to marry men they have never met, and then succumb to mental breakdowns in large numbers. They are then taken to Mullahs who perform exorcisms.

It certainly is a case of 'possession'; but not, perhaps, what the mullahs think.

What sort of people could ever believe that kidnapping and rape could be a basis for a happy marriage? What sort of mother will such a person be, really? What l...