Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Taliban and Womans rights

Women being stoned to death, Having their body parts cut from them, and being murdered for the sake of family honor. Sounds like medieval times right? Sadly this is a problem in current day Afghanistan.

The Muslim regions of the world are already not too keen on human rights let alone womens rights. The religion literally outlines how poorly to treat women, In the Muslim faith they ARE property. 

Of course you cannot pin this on the entirety of the Muslim people right? It's the Taliban that is doing it, those fundamentalists who take everything the scripture says too literal right? No. The complacency shown by the rest of the peoples towards the actions of the Taliban mean they are just as much to blame. Because there is no attempt from the people to stop the actions of the Taliban the Taliban can do what they please.

Of course there will be no attempt to stop the violence of the Taliban for many reasons. The Taliban use violence to enforce their control, using firearms purchased illegally and American Training. Along with the obvious violent control the Taliban use the religion of the area to justify the violence, no one wants to offend Allah.

A chilling question posed by President Karzai (President of Afghanistan) "What is more important, protecting the right of a girl to go to school or saving her life?"

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