All those dead Taliban fighters are probably going to be spinning in their graves with stuff like this happening in Afghanistan,
The [voter registration] process started last December and, so far, around 22 percent of the 320,770 Afghans who signed up to vote are women. Up to 10 million people are estimated to be eligible […]
Nigerian citizen Osfatu Bose Oweiye was sentenced to death in Pakistan in May after being convicted of heading up a heroin smuggling ring in that country.
Oweiye was arrested in 1999 in connection with a drug bust that turned up 20 kilograms of heroin in a Lahore hotel room. Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force argued that Oweiye […]
What a difference a couple of years and a war makes. Under the Taliban, women in Afghanistan could not work outside the home and the Internet was banned because of all the immoral content it carried. Now, women in Afghanistan are training in computer networking to help kick start Afghanistan’s information technology industry.
Reuters ran […]
Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, a group called the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) received a lot of media coverage. With its rhetoric about freeing Afghanistan’s women from oppression, its smuggled videotapes of atrocities against women, and the imprimatur of Western feminists, RAWA was the perfect group for the media to […]
Gloria Steinem this week provided an excellent example of the idiocy of much of contemporary feminism when she revealed that it is not so much whether or not women are spared from violence and oppression, but rather the key point is who gets to save women from violence and oppression.
Back in June 2000, Steinem […]
In an op-ed for the Boston Globe historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg and women’s health advocate Jacquelyn Jackson argue that while women in Afghanistan are celebrating the demise of the Taliban by removing their burkas, women in the United States have yet to fully realize how oppressed they are by the wearing bikinis and other […]
At the end of October, the Village Voice ran an interesting article by Sharon Lerner examining feminist attitudes toward the war against Afghanistan. In hindsight some of the comments look downright silly, but women’s rights advocate Hibaaq Osman’s take on the war is downright chilling.
Lerner notes that last year Osman gave a speech at […]
In an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, Amy Holmes wonders why the National Organization for Women seems to be largely ignoring the United States’ war against the Taliban.
Holmes notes that NOW did put out a press release a few days ago quoting NOW Action Vice President Olga Vives saying, “In this time of […]
A couple weeks ago the Taliban, which controls about 80 percent of Afghanistan, announced that it would begin destroying statues and other artwork that were devoted to religions other than Islam. As the Taliban followed through on its promise, the outrage and coverage that this has garnered have been amazing. Everywhere I turns, it […]
The other day I posted about the ongoing problems women face in Afghanistan. An excellent on-line source for information on the Taleban is the Revolutionary Assocation of the Women of Afghanistan which includes information on atrocities committed against women in Afghanistan as well as efforts to overthrow the Islamic fundamentalist Taleban regime.