In the past few months it has occurred to me that many of the leaders of the Free World, not the Bushes, or Blairs, or Sakarovs, or Merkels, but the modern Thomas Paines or Mastro Ceccos or William Wilberforces.... are women.

     When I am looking for nobility these days I often find it in the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform (and they do sacrifice). But lately I have noticed several instances when it is civillian women who stand out for their bravery.  In October of last year an evil man went on a rampage in a Pennsylvania Amish school. Two young women, Mirian and Barbie Fisher, stood up to a piece of human garbage with more courage than I think I would have had. "Shoot me first" said the girls. The nearly undead thing that attacked them, wallowing in his self-pity, committed the vile act that they knew would occur, but Barbie lived, and so did others. When looking into the Face of Death these girls, these children, had only one reply "bring it on". "Ye thou I walk through the Valley of Death, I will fear no Evil" They knew that there was a difference between good and evil, and they choose to stand, and in Miriam's case die, for Love.  I stand in awe of these heroines.

     Another woman, with beginnings in tribal Africa as mean as can be imagined, is fearlessly taking on the evil that Islam is for so many women. Ayaan Hirsi Ali has a voice that is practically alone in the fight against the religion of female submission. Personally abused by the horrid cult, she fearlessly continues to be almost the sole voice for these enslaved millions. Under constant guard against the Islamofacsists she tells one interview that there are millions of oppressed women who do not have the luxury of bodyguards.

When I see the video of Wafa Sultan standing up to the Imam, telling him that she is the one who decides if she will be a believer or not, I fear for her life. These hollow excuses for men, who think their masculinity comes from how poorly they treat women, will kill her if they get the chance, but she remains unafraid and unwilling to be silenced.

I am making certain that my son knows about these women, and my daughter when she is old enough to understand. They will know about their deeds, and their courage. Having two children of my own, I can only wonder, from where does such courage come? Even though I often become depressed at the dearth of Nobility in our society, it does exist, and these women are a shining example.