Oh, for Chirst's sake, Realist. This is getting tiresome. I find it quite ofensive that you have the gall to pick and sort to find some assinine BOOK that supposedly supports your Taliban-loved-women theory. Got news for you: there was a hue and cry from feminist groups about the treatment of Arab women BEFORE the Afghan war.
You obviously are going to believe what you want to believe.
http://www.echonyc.com/~onissues/su98goodwin.html
February 27, 1998 --Thirty-thousand men and boys poured into the dilapidated Olympic sports stadium in
http://www.feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
The Taliban & Afghan Women: BackgroundOn September 27, 1996, the Taliban, an extremist militia, seized control of the capital of , , and violently plunged the occupied territories of into a brutal state of gender apartheid in which women and girls have been stripped of their basic human rights. "If this was happening to any other class of people around the world, there would be a tremendous outcry. We must make sure these same standards are applied when it is women and girls who are brutally treated." |
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Gender Apartheid - The Elimination of Women's Rights
Upon seizing power, the Taliban instituted a system of gender apartheid effectively thrusting the women of into a state of virtual house arrest. Under Taliban rule women have been stripped of their visibility, voice, and mobility. When they took control in 1996, the Taliban initially imposed strict edicts that:
- Banished women from the work force
- Closed schools to girls in cities and expelled women from universities
- Prohibited women from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative
- Ordered the publicly visible windows of women's houses painted black and forced women to wear the burqa (or chadari) - which completely shrouds the body, leaving only a small mesh-covered opening through which to see
- Prohibited women and girls from being examined by male physicians while at the same time, prohibited most female doctors and nurses from working. (Currently there are a few, selected female doctors allowed to operate in segregated wards.)
