A precarious time for Afghan women

[Sally]

I hope for the young women in Afghanistan that everything works out for them, although I have my doubts. I can imagine just how they are worrying.

A precarious time for Afghan women

Since the Taliban's fall, women have seen fitful gains. But those with access to education and work fear the U.S. troop departure will erode their freedoms.

By David Zucchino

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan
Feb. 4, 2014

Ghazalan Koofi loves her mother but not the life her mother has been compelled to live.

The older woman, her face cloaked in a shawl, had an arranged marriage at age 11. She didn't go to school and spent her life raising seven children with little help from her husband.

Today, at 50, Shahgol Shah still obeys mahram, the Afghan custom that forbids women to leave home without a male relative. She wears a burka in public. "That's our tradition," Shah says.

Koofi, 26, lives a life her mother could never have imagined. She leaves home unescorted every day, working at a government ministry and attending university classes at night. She speaks fluent English and has never worn a burka. She dresses stylishly but modestly, her wavy black hair peeking from a head scarf.

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[Sunni Man]

And?? ...

 

[Roudy]

And?? ...

 

[Sally]

And?? ...

My heart bleeds for this young Afghani woman. Imagine having this done to her. A while back I met a respiratory therapist, an Afghani Muslim, and asked him if he had seen this girl since, of course, he speaks her language. He said he and his wife (a nurse) did, and he would bring her home with him during treatment if his home was only large enough). There was an Afghani teenager working as a cashier in a store I would frequent, and I used to tell her how glad I was that she was here where she was safe. No doubt other Muslim men cheered on what this unfortunate Afghani woman's husband did to her because they have no respect for women.

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[Sunni Man]

U.S troops will soon be leaving Afghanistan and the country revert back to it's Islamic traditions and culture. ...

 

[Roudy]

U.S troops will soon be leaving Afghanistan and the country revert back to it's Islamic traditions and culture. ...

Yes the good old days where the Taliban shot women in the head in public in soccer stadiums, public executions, beatings and lashings, throwing acid in women's faces for not dressing properly, and burning little girls alive for simply wanting to go to school and get an education.

Lovely.

 

[Sunni Man]

Their country......their customs......their laws.

I don't see how it's anyone's business what the Afghan people do. ..

 

[Roudy]

Their country......their customs......their laws.

I don't see how it's anyone's business what the Afghan people do. ..

Not at all. It's their country so get to oppress and persecute women and treat them like dirt as they please.

You seem to have a problem with women.

Well as long as the animals do it in their own Muslim shitholes and keep it away from the rest of the civilized world. But they don't, do they? Muslims like you want this barbaric shit to happen here in the US and Western Europe. Perhaps it's best to outlaw Islam as an acceptable ideology, like we did with Nazism and Communism and make it part of the requirement for a Green Card or Citizenship applicant. Yup. That would be the way to go.

 

[Sunni Man]

....................................................................................^^ By all means Roudy.......proceed. ...

 

[Roudy]

....................................................................................^^ By all means Roudy.......proceed. ...

Don't need to, it's an eventuality.

 

[Sally]

....................................................................................^^ By all means Roudy.......proceed. ...

Don't need to, it's an eventuality.

Maybe a lot of people will be thinking like Pat Condell.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIaGWURONRU]It's good to be anti-Islam - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Billo_Really]

Their country......their customs......their laws.

I don't see how it's anyone's business what the Afghan people do. ..

I have to agree with Roudy regarding that woman in the soccer stadium.

That was pretty fucked!

 

[Roudy]

But hey, their country, their laws. LOL

 

[Sunni Man]

Their country......their customs......their laws.

I don't see how it's anyone's business what the Afghan people do. ..

I have to agree with Roudy regarding that woman in the soccer stadium.

That was pretty fucked!

Years ago I watched the original video of the women being shot with some people who spoke the language and they told me what was going on and why she was executed.

As usual, the western media never tells the complete story to the public.


The woman had taken a hammer and hit her husband in the head while he was asleep......a case of cold blooded murder.

She was arrested......had a trial......found guilty of murder.......and given the death penalty for murder.

In Afghanistan death penalties are carried out in public


In the U.S. we also execute women for murder......but we use a different method and it's not open to the public.

 

[Billo_Really]

Years ago I watched the original video of the women being shot with some people who spoke the language and they told me what was going on and why she was executed.

As usual, the western media never tells the complete story to the public.


The woman had taken a hammer and hit her husband in the head while he was asleep......a case of cold blooded murder.

She was arrested......had a trial......found guilty of murder.......and given the death penalty for murder.

In Afghanistan death penalties are carried out in public


In the U.S. we also execute women for murder......but we use a different method and it's not open to the public.

I understand that. But I'm also against capital punishment. The death penalty should be abolished in every country, starting with mine.

 

[Billo_Really]

But hey, their country, their laws. LOL

What do you care?

You don't give a shit about laws!

 

[Roudy]

Their country......their customs......their laws.

I don't see how it's anyone's business what the Afghan people do. ..

I have to agree with Roudy regarding that woman in the soccer stadium.

That was pretty fucked!

Years ago I watched the original video of the women being shot with some people who spoke the language and they told me what was going on and why she was executed.

As usual, the western media never tells the complete story to the public.


The woman had taken a hammer and hit her husband in the head while he was asleep......a case of cold blooded murder.

She was arrested......had a trial......found guilty of murder.......and given the death penalty for murder.

In Afghanistan death penalties are carried out in public


In the U.S. we also execute women for murder......but we use a different method and it's not open to the public.

No actually, you are a forked tongue Mooslem liar. Taliban publicly executed women who are ACCUSED of minor morality crimes such as adultery.

[ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=pjSgWMVpqgI]Taliban Executes A Woman For Adultery In Parwan Afghanistan As Dozens Of Men Cheer On! - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Roudy]

But hey, their country, their laws. LOL

What do you care?

You don't give a shit about laws!

Hee hee. And you do.

What a nutjob.

 

[Sunni Man]

No actually, you are a forked tongue Mooslem liar. Taliban publicly executed women who are ACCUSED of minor morality crimes such as adultery.

Don't be such a drama queen Roudy.

You know I was only commenting about the woman who was convicted of murder and shot in the back of the head at the soccer stadium.


Yes, women are executed for the capital crime of adultery in Afghanistan.

But it's their country and their laws.

And I have no problem with it. ..

 

[Roudy]

Like I said, Islamist animals are barbaric towards women. It's usually insecure men like Sunni who want to treat women like this.

Taliban treatment of women

While in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban became notorious internationally for their sexism. The stated aim of the Taliban was to create a "secure environment where the chasteness and dignity of women may once again be sacrosanct,"[1] reportedly based on Pashtunwali beliefs about living in purdah.[2]

Afghan women were forced to wear the burqa at all times in public, because, according to one Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them.[3] In a systematic segregation sometimes referred to as gender apartheid, women were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an.

Women seeking an education were forced to attend underground schools, where they and their teachers risked execution if caught.[4][5] They were not allowed to be treated by male doctors unless accompanied by a male chaperone, which led to illnesses remaining untreated. They faced public flogging and execution for violations of the Taliban's laws.[6][7] The Taliban allowed and in some cases encouraged marriage for girls under the age of 16. Amnesty International reported that 80% of Afghan marriages were considered to be arranged by force.[8][when?]

Gender policies

From the age of eight, females were not allowed to be in direct contact with males other than a close "blood relative", husband, or in-law (see mahram).[9] Other restrictions were:

Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative and without wearing a burqa (also burkha, burka or burqua)
Women should not wear high-heeled shoes as no man should hear a woman’s footsteps lest it excite him
Women must not speak loudly in public as no stranger should hear a woman's voice[10]
All ground and first floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women being visible from the street
The photographing or filming of women was banned as was displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home
The modification of any place names that included the word "women". For example, "women's garden" was renamed "spring garden".[11]
Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses
Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind[12]