Monday August 31, 2009, 11:49 pm
The next thing talibans will say is that women are not interested in politics because they are "naturally" inclined to stay at home... poor sisters! Their fear will feedback the oppression they suffer...

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 10:05 am
The U.S. occupation forces are supporting the Northern Alliance warlord government of Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance are fundamentalists, much like the Taliban, and both groups are just as oppressive to women and people in general. The Northern Alliance are just as likely as the Taliban to say that "women are not interested in politics because they are "naturally" inclined to stay at home..."

If you want to get the truth about Afghanistan, you won't get much of it from the capitalist media, which supports the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan for the economic agenda of multinational corporations (e.g. to use Afghanistan as a transit zone for oil and gas from the Central Asian states). You can find the truth in the non-capitalist media.

Also, how about you listen to the voices of the women of Afghanistan? Here is the website of the oldest women's rights organisation in Afghanistan, R.A.W.A.:

http://www.rawa.org

Here is one of the articles that R.A.W.A. have published on their website:

http://www.care2.com/news/member/860103097/1123289
("America's Afghan War: The Real World Versus Obama's Marketed Imagery")

And here is an article by the progressive political scientist and professor, Michael Parenti. It is a great place to start in learning the history of Afghanistan that the media of the invading countries will not tell you. E.g. about how the USA and Pakistan created the Taliban in the 1970s, by giving arms and guerrilla and terrorism training to rich landlords and fundamentalist mullahs, to overthrow the new progressive Afghan government of the 1970s, which the people of Afghanistan created, to women more rights and make egalitarian land reforms, etc.. U.S. involvement was not originally "to fight against occupation by the USSR". It was BEFORE the USSR came to Afghanistan:

http://www.care2.com/news/member/860103097/1097035
("Afghanistan, Another Untold Story")

Tuesday September 1, 2009, 11:17 pm
I didn't see the article because it expired,but I am sad that the women had stayed home.To me,women are equal to men and deserve all the rights and other good things in life just as men do.I do wish there was something we can do,those poor ladies there can't even vote.Can you say they are living in the dark ages?Women here have been able to vote since 1920!!!

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 7:54 am
So sorry that the ladies stayed in... perhaps it is an inward sign that women are silently rebelling against a regime that is totally biased... I would stay home to