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In Desperation, Afghan Women Turn To PETA
Duffleblog ^ | 10 May 2015 | Duffleblog

Posted on 05/10/2015 8:08:24 AM PDT by rey

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Afghanistan’s leading government organization for women has announced plans to abandon their struggle for women’s equality in Afghanistan and said they merely hope to be treated with the same basic dignity given to animals.

Dr. Husn Banu Ghazanfar, Afghanistan’s Minister of Women’s Affairs since 2006, has announced that her ministry will formally disband next month and turn over all women’s issues in the country to the Afghan chapter of the group the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

“In a bow to reality, we have given up all hope of gender equality and merely wish to receive the same legal protection as a man’s cow or goat,” Dr. Ghazanfar said during a tearful press conference in Kabul. “At least livestock can work outside the house.”

Her remarks were repeatedly interrupted by angry male hecklers, occasional gunfire, and at least one attempt to stone her to death.

“We won’t ask for anything insulting, like being treated like a man,” Ghazanfar pleaded, trying to calm the angry mob. “But maybe being treated like a female … camel? Or at least being able to ride in the cab of the truck with the sheep.”

Ghazanfar explained that her decision was based on historical precedent. Prior to Afghanistan’s civil war, Afghan law treated women on the same legal plane as livestock and violence against women was historically prosecuted as animal abuse, if anyone actually bothered to report it.

Full gender equality was briefly achieved during the Soviet invasion, when Afghan women were gassed, shot, and lost limbs at roughly the same rate as men.

Today, in some Middle Eastern countries, killing a man’s wife can lead to reparations in the form of a certain number of livestock; however, under Afghanistan’s topsy-turvy laws, killing that same man’s livestock can lead to reparations in the form of a certain number of wives or daughters.

Ghazanfar said her decision had been prompted by the repeated failures to accomplish even such basic goals such as raising the age of marital consent past six, keep a shelter for abuse victims open more than a month before being burned down, or guaranteeing women the right to choose — the method of their execution.

A recent vote in Afghanistan’s parliament sought to repeal its groundbreaking Elimination of Violence Against Women Law after many legislators were puzzled by who could possibly have a problem with something so mundane. One even publicly joked that it would be easier to ban smoking or cursing.

However, Ghazanfar said the final straw was when the Afghan government ordered the immediate removal of all Afghan women legislators because their husbands should lawfully occupy their seats.

“I have heard western journalists say we are treated like slaves,” Ghazanfar later told Duffel Blog from the safety of her up-armored mobile home. “I wish! At least under Afghan law slaves have to be fed twice a day and can only be beaten in private by a uniformed representative of the Afghan government.”

Afghan president Ashraf Ghani said he disagreed that women’s rights had deteriorated in recent years and hoped for an opportunity to publicly debate Ghazanfar’s husband or other suitable male relative.

He added, “Under the Taliban, unescorted women in public were beaten and sometimes executed. Even ten years ago, we still had a rash of women burning themselves to death to escape marriage. However, thanks to progress, that now happens today in public under the watchful eye of concerned citizens.”

A representative from PETA Afghanistan has already issued a statement condemning Ghazanfar for associating of cows and goats with women and called for her immediate execution.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; peta; womensrights

1 posted on 05/10/2015 8:08:24 AM PDT by rey
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To: rey

Its SATIRE folks!

There’s an element of truth to it: liberals love animals more than they love people.

They love tyrannies more than they love freedom.

They love their bodyguard of lies more than they love the truth.

They love evil over what is good!

Facts are stubborn things folks, so when you laugh, keep in mind that for the Left, the enemy is humanity.


2 posted on 05/10/2015 8:12:28 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: rey

They don’t treat animals any better. My first thought was this, though,

Matthew 15:26-28New American Standard Bible (NASB)

26 And He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 27 But she said, “Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed at once.”

Then I looked at the source linked and L’d OL. Luv them.


3 posted on 05/10/2015 8:25:25 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

Dogs are more loyal than humans who are treacherous knaves.


4 posted on 05/10/2015 8:32:19 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

I suspect you’re right, it is satire. However, I wish the writer would make that clear. Life in the middle-eastern countries is bad enough as it is. Peta would not do much for these women anyway. Chances are, the majority of people working for Peta, will tell you to your face that they love/like/trust animals far, far more than any human beings.


5 posted on 05/10/2015 8:35:41 AM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: lee martell

Sorry. I thought when I posted it that it was so obviously satire that I needn’t say so.

I used to teach Swift’s Modest Proposal. It is funny how even today people think it is real. But as the first poster noted, that is the point.


6 posted on 05/10/2015 8:49:11 AM PDT by rey
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To: lee martell

You cant be serious you have any doubt that is satire.


7 posted on 05/10/2015 8:54:37 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: rey

In 1969 I was a Peace Corps Trainee training to go to Afghanistan. Naturally, we learned a lot about the laws and customs of the nations. The king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, was trying to bring his country into the 20th century. Naturally, he was opposed by all of the right-thinking mullahs. Among his reforms were letting women go out in public without the chadri (or burka), go to school and even university. Most of this freedom for women was pretty much confined to Kabul. The university girls wore western-style clothing, but wore large sunglasses—I guess to preserve some sense of a face covering. There was even a law passed forbidding the murder of daughters by fathers!

There was righteous indignation over all of this in the villages and the king was eventually deposed and Afghanistan proudly returned to the 7th century. The history of Iran is similar.


8 posted on 05/10/2015 9:15:54 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: lee martell

This is from Duffelblog. It’s a military humor site. Everything from them is satire. Some of it quite obscene, some of it a failure like this piece, but some genuinely hilarious.


9 posted on 05/10/2015 9:23:55 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: rey

Satire or not the premise is correct, they will get no support from NOW or other so-called feminist organizations, they are totally ignored non existent.


10 posted on 05/10/2015 10:20:13 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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