[US should install woman to run Afghanistan (my title): An overview on the situation of Afghan Women

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[Diogenesis]

On the Situation of Afghan Women

There never has been any reliable demographic

statistics on Afghanistan for the past two decades.

Of the estimated 16 million Afghans at the end of the

70s, over two million have

been killed in the war of resistance against Soviet

occupiers and later on in the civil war unleashed by

fundamentalist groupings enjoying the support of

foreign powers. Another one and half million have

been maimed by the war fallout, while nearly five

million have been forced into refugee camps in Iran

and Pakistan. The majority of the population left

inside the country have been internally displaced as a

result of the unending war of the past two decades

and in particular of the fundamentalist in-fighting of

the past eight years. At the best of times the overall

literacy rate was less than 20% amongst males and less

than 5% amongst females. (These figures are

considered by some as very optimistic.) Against such

a backdrop, the country slid into the hands of Islamic

fundamentalists in 1992.

Islamic fundamentalism in essence looks upon

women as sub-humans, fit only for household slavery

and as a means of procreation. Such an outrageous

view has incredibly been elevated to the status of

official policy with the coming to power of the

ignorant Taliban who are still in control of 90% of

Afghanistan including the capital Kabul. Not only the

Jehadis and Taliban but all Islamists (advocates of an

Islamic political system) target women’s rights as a

first priority, citing mediaeval Sharia (Islamic law) as

their authority. With the coming to power of Islamic

fundamentalists in 1992, women’s right to full

participation in social, economic, cultural and political

life of the country was drastically curtailed and later

on summarily denied them by the Taliban. Under the

latter (who are the predominant political power in

Afghanistan today), women are totally deprived of the

right to education (all girls’ school have been closed

down), of the right to work (all women have been

ordered to remain in their houses and employers have

been threatened with dire consequences for taking up

female employees), of the right to travel (no woman

can venture out of the house alone and

unaccompanied by a prescribed male member of the

woman’s immediate family), of the right to health (no

woman can see a male doctor, family planning is

outlawed, women cannot be operated upon by a

surgical team containing a male member), of the right

to legal recourse (a woman’s testimony is worth half a

man’s testimony; a woman cannot petition the court

directly – this has to be done through a prescribed

male member of her immediate family), of the right to

recreation (all women’s recreational and sporting

facilities have been banned, women singers cannot

sing least their female voices ‘corrupt’ males, etc.),

and of the right to being human (they cannot show

their faces in public to male strangers, they cannot

wear bright coloured clothing, they cannot wear make

up, they can only appear outside their houses clad

head to foot in shapeless bags called burqas, they

cannot wear shoes with heels that click [least the

clicking sound of their feet corrupt males], they

cannot travel in private vehicles with male passengers,

they do not have the right to raise their voices when

talking in public, they cannot laugh loud as it lures

males into corruption, etc. etc.)

[Diogenesis]

The United States should install a woman to run Afghanistan.

Beware --- some of the films show killings by the Taliban.

[fishfoot]

Let the women run the country and require the men to wear sacks over their heads, lest they sinfully lust.

[Grut]

Sorry. Being a victim isn't a job qualification.

[Diogenesis]

There is probably a Conda Rice hidden there.

or a Mandela

And it will upset the Taliban so bad, it dont much matter.